Topic July 07: Enterprise Agility

Abstract: Enterprise Agility

Scrum and XP have found a strong following in the development community. But most non-development groups inside the enterprise are far from agile, nor are they trying to move to be more agile. This session starts with a refresher on Scrum, and then uses real experiences to show how to cope and effectively work with those teams.

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Posted: Thu Jun 18 13:16:00 +0000 2009

Tues June 2nd. Topic: "Failures of Agile"

The topic will for the next meeting will be: "Failures of Agile"

I don't mean that as "Failures" (in quotes).
This is about real failures that people have experienced and maybe some idea
on how to avoid them in the future.

These are not especially failures of doing the Agile practices.
This is about when doing the practices something is still not right.
Let take a hard look at where Agile still does not address.

Some of the things our members have raised lately are issues with:
- Backlogitous
- Faux User
- Fake Points vs Real Dollars
- Estimating vs Doing
- The Programming Language not so important

Bring your other issues to the meeting.

Posted: Fri May 29 13:31:00 +0000 2009

May 5th, 2008 iPhone development

* Scott will walk through the creation of a simple app He's written and go over the tool chain and unit testing. He may also walk through the development and distribution certificates and maybe even selling on the app store

* Scott Barron works for EdgeCase writing Ruby, Rails, and iPhone applications.

Please Register to Attend...

Posted: Mon May 04 11:25:00 +0000 2009

Upcoming Topics for Spring

Future meeting topics currently planned:

May 5th: iPhone Development - Cincinnati iPhone Mac Developer User Group by Scott Barron
June 2nd: Unit Testing in Oracle by Glen Pennington

Posted: Thu Apr 09 11:15:00 +0000 2009

Meeting April 7th - Google Android

Google Android Platform, an Intro

The presentation will cover the history and the architecture of the Android Platform, Android SDK, and the development environment, with code samples to highlight some common aspects of writing mobile applications.

Bio:

Stefan Kyntchev is a software architect with Strategic Data Systems working with Microsoft platforms and technologies. He spends some of his free time writing software for mobile devices. Stefan maintains BeyondPod - a popular open source podcatcher and RSS reader for windows Mobile Devices. His recent project was the port of BeyondPod to the Android Platform.

Posted: Thu Mar 26 11:07:00 +0000 2009

Uncle Bob at Chicago ALT.NET

Video of Uncle Bob at Chicago ALT.NET explains XP and Agile History.

Posted: Mon Mar 23 11:38:00 +0000 2009

RESCHEDULED- Topic March 3rd: Seaside and Web Velocity

* * NOW RESCHEDULED * *

James Robertson, Cincom Smalltalk Product Evangelist

James willpresent Seaside then move to Web Velocity, showingwhere Cincom is going with web development. I'll take questions onthose parts of the product, or on the roadmap in general

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Posted: Fri Feb 20 15:02:00 +0000 2009

SeaSide code fest (Dec 2nd)

Here is a The Seaside One-Click Experience to download before the December 2nd. meeting.

And here is a nice SeaSide tutorial, which is the first part of a book. It's too long to cover in the meeting but we can start working though it together.

Another SeaSide tutorial

** UPDATE **

JetBrains is offering a licese to a member of our users group. The winner can choose: IntelliJ IDEA, ReSharper, TeamCity (one Build Agent), RubyMine - our forthcoming Ruby IDE, or dotTrace. We will hold a drawing at the meeting.

Posted: Mon Dec 01 10:39:00 +0000 2008

Oct 7 Topic: Smalltalk code fest

Meeting Oct 7 Topic: Smalltalk code fest

After the presentation we had from Gemstone about GLASS we decided to get our hands into it a bit. So next meeting will be about exploring GLASS by coding.

GLASS is:

Gemstone
Linux
Apache
Seaside
Smalltalk

I'll put some links here to download code in a few days.

Posted: Mon Sep 29 13:35:00 +0000 2008

Fifty Years of Computing at the University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati would like to invite you to attend a once in a lifetime event celebrating UC’s innovation, achievement, and leadership in computing on November 10 & 11, 2008.

Details

Posted: Mon Sep 22 20:32:00 +0000 2008