January Meeting Location Moved

Today's meeting moved to the Gaslight  offices.
Please spread the word.

Map:  http://gaslightsoftware.com/contact.html

Meeting Jan 3rd. CodeMash Preview: "Beautiful Front End Code with Backbone.js and CoffeeScript"

Beautiful Front End Code with Backbone.js and CoffeeScript

This presentation will also be presented at CodeMash 2012

Abstract: It's time to write client side code we can love every bit as much as our server side code. After years of missteps and bad ideas, things are finally taking shape to let us do it. Coffeescript provides a beautiful syntax for writing javascript that causes the noise to fade away and our intent to shine through. Backbone.js gives us an elegant MVC framework that provides just enough structure and guides our client side code towards the kind of clean, reusable codebase we are used to from server side frameworks. Combining these with practices we know work such as Test Driven Development, there's no longer any excuse at all for ugly front end code. In this session I'll share my experience writing real applications this way and show how these excellent technologies fit together.

Presented By: Chris Nelson

About the Speaker: Chris Nelson is a software developer who hails from the fair city of Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been developing web applications for about 15 years and is passionate about finding better ways to do it. He's spoken at most of the major and ruby and java conferences and is an advocate for ways to develop software that actually work (sometimes referred to as Agile).

Please Register

Meeting Dec 6th, Two Great Organizations, One Great Event!

Register here:  Eventbrite announcement/registration link 

Come join the Agile Cincinnati and Agile Roundtable leadership for an evening of food, fun, and comradarie as we ring in the holiday season!

Food and drinks are not covered for this event, so each attendee is responsible for purchasing their own meals and beverages. 

Both groups will be meeting at  Buca di Beppo - Cincinnati - Rookwood Commons at 6:30pm on Tuesday Dec 6th.  There will be individual checks for all food and drink orders.

Register here:  Eventbrite announcement/registration link 

Meeting: Tues Nov 1st.: Roundtable

The next meeting is on Tues Nov 1st.
Its been a long time since the last one, so we will have a Roundtable format.
Bring any Agile issues and questions you may have, or just listen in to what other people are experiencing.


Register here for Pizza.

Tuesday 4th Oct: Cincinnati Children’s Agile Journey

Learn from the experience of a team at Cincinnati Children's on the challenges they were facing using traditional waterfall method and why they decided to give the Agile process a try. Join Marjorie and Robyn as they share their experiences
over the last two years.


Abstract: We had been facing challenges using the traditional waterfall method and needed to improve project outcomes. After attending several Agile presentations we decided to give the Agile process a try. Join us as we share our experiences over the last two years of using the Agile framework. We’ll discuss how we introduced it, what type of projects we have implemented using this process and how we keep spreading the word and moving forward. We’ll be talking about what went well; the positive impacts we have made delivering projects at CCHMC and, of course, what can be improved!

Bio:
Marjorie is a member of the Project Management Office at CCHMC. She has over 25 years of IT experience in a number of verticals including insurance, manufacturing and telecommunications. Various roles have been programmer, resource manager, project manager and Agile evangelist.
Robin manages the PeopleSoft HCM/ELM and Kronos development teams at CCHMC. She has over 25 years of IT experience in a number of verticals supporting human resources information systems. Her roles have included: programmer, resource manager, project manager and Agile advocate.

Meeting Tues Sept 6th: The Semantic Web and JRuby

The Semantic Web and JRuby

The Semantic Web is changing the way we communicate and share data on the internet and holds the key to exciting new innovations. Come and discover what the Semantic Web is and it's many benefits. We'll learn about some of the technologies that enable the Semantic Web (RDF/ SPARQL) and take a look at using the power of JRuby to access Jena, a prominent Java Open Source Semantic Web Framework, to do some practical examples

Presented by:
Carin Meier
twitter @carinmeier
http://gigasquidsoftware.com/wordpress/

August Summer Break: No Meeting

Agile Round Table will be taking a summer break in August 2011.
We will NOT have an official meeting on August 2nd.
You may want to check the mailing list to see if anyone is maybe interested in an un-official meeting at Habanjaro