Meeting Notes - Feb 2010

The meeting on Tuesday drew a large crowd, with lots of new people attending.   Jim gave a terrific presentation on the concepts of Source Code Control while staying away from the details of command line options.  After the presentation he guided the group in working though some common GIT commands in a hands on workshop.

After the meeting we went to our favorite hang-out and lots of light conversations and deep discussions ensued.

Meeting 2nd February: Source Control Made Easy

Next Meeting Tuesday Feb 2nd.
Topic: Source Control Made Easy
Presenter: Jim Weirich 
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Few tools have changed the way I work as much as the git source control system.  Its distributed nature and lightweight branching and merging have made it possible for me to massage my code base in ways I couldn't have even imagined before using git.

However, git has a reputation for being hard to learn.  Because of its rather different approach to source control issues, many of the techniques we have learned in other source control systems do not translate cleanly when using git.

In this talk, we avoid the whole "fear of git" issue by not talking about git at all.  Instead we introduce the "Custom Source Control" (CSC) system and build it up from first principles.  In the end, we will have a completely functional, distributed source control system.  And because each step in our journey of building CSC is simple and straight forward, we end up with a completely understandable system.

So, this talk is not about git.  But attendees will end up with a deeper understanding of the principles behind git.

Did I mention this talk is not about git?  No, really!  It's not.


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Meeting 2nd February.

Topic: TBD

Meeting recap - 5 Jan 2010

At last nights roundtable we discussed among other things:

• The Launch of cincycoworks
• APLN, Local chapter forming
• Android vs. iPhone
• HTML 5
• Comet and Ajax architecture
• 5 Years ago we watched the Rails movie and switched to Ruby
• Watched Tim Berners-Lee on TED on the next web
• REST, RDFa, SPARQL 
• 1, 5, and 10 year technology fearless predictions (TM)
• Android grows
• Bing grows
• Ruby still playing a role
• Someone moves to China
• Maglev will someday announce a future release date

Please add comments on things I may have missed.

Meeting: Tues 5th january 2010

Meeting Tues 5th january 2010.   Topic: Roundtable. 


Bring your deep thoughts & clever observations on the Software business. Or just listen in.


Don't be fooled,  these open format meeting are often rated the best by our attendees.  So much so, that we changed the group name last year to reflect the discussion format in our group's name.

New Blog Engine

It's easy to notice that Agile Roundtable has a new blog engine and layout.
We wanted to add more features like enabling comments. We reviewed the previous posts and decided that most of them were not interesting enough to be transferred to this new site.   So here it is

A fresh look for a fresh year.
Happy New Year.

Tuesday Dec 1 Topic: Titanium

Topic #1: Titanium

How do you develop software applications for all the myriad platforms and devices of today? With HTML, CSS, and javascript. How do you push HTML out to the iPhone and Android? With Titanium. I'll give a rundown of my experience over the past couple of months with using Titanium to develop for Android, from zero all the way to delivering to the Android Market a Pomodoro Timer app that kind of works.

bio

Software developer for over 25 years. I'm a curious geek who's delivered apps written in C/C++, perl, java, c#, ruby and javascript among others. I favor dynamic languages but mostly I just like to solve problems.

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Chris Nelson

Topic #2: Javascript MVC

Chris Nelson will talk about Javascript MVC