May 6th. Topic: Data vs. Objects

Sit in like a fly on the wall with a development team as they wrestle
with the issues of data modeling versus object modeling. This is not
your standard slideshow and talk, but a dialogue presented in three
acts in which we explore the themes of simplicity and modularity as an
application is developed. Watch the sparks fly as old-school objects
modelers meet the Rails generation.

Just to clarify, this will be Jim Weirich and Joe from EdgeCase and
Chris Nelson (who is so cool, he doesn't need a company ... that is why they call him superchrisnelson).

Posted: Thu Apr 24 12:57:00 UTC 2008

CART Presentation Videos

CART Pecha-Kucha Presentation Videos:

http://cincinnatirecruiter.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/april-agile-round-table-pecha-kucha-style/

Posted: Thu Apr 24 12:53:00 UTC 2008

April Meeting Topics (Updated)

Jim Weirich suggested that we have a pecha-kucha style meeting:

Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up.

Very quickly people started signing up to give one of these mini-presentations. Next month the meeting on Tuesday April 1st (honest thats the real date) will have the following presentations:

PHP
Using G-Maps with Rails
Rails/.NET integration
Extreme PowerPoint Makeover

That will fill about 30 minues of our meeting. So, we can fit a bunch more.

Heres your chance to do a topic of your own. Send me an email and let me know your topic.

Updates:

We now have an additional presentation about giving presentaions.
An Issues of "Better Software" magazine will be available to everyone attending.
We will be taping the presentations and putting them on YouTube

Posted: Thu Mar 13 20:30:00 UTC 2008

March 3rd. meeting recap

Last night we talked about Rails, legacy PHP, testing in real life, Data warehousing, and how to get the best cookies from Panera.

Next month it'll be a few 6 minute zen-presentations on various topics.

Posted: Wed Mar 05 13:59:00 UTC 2008

Feb Presentations Available

Mark Windholtz's presentations from the Febuary 2008 Meeting are available.

Posted: Tue Feb 12 15:57:00 UTC 2008

Meeting Tues, Feb 5th

Our February Meeting will review, compare, and contrast XP and Scrum.

What do each of them provide?
What do each of them miss?
How do they fit with Various Business Models and Technology Choices

Please Register

Posted: Thu Jan 17 16:53:00 UTC 2008

Meeting: 8th. Jan 2008

Topic: Story Testing.

Presentor: Doug Alcorn

How do you do customer acceptance testing when all you publish is an XML-RPC interface? During this presentation Doug will go through several strategies he has tried for automated tests including good ol' Test::Unit, some old version of rspec, and the new hotness of Rspec's story runner.

Posted: Tue Jan 01 18:26:00 UTC 2008

Meeting: 8th. Jan 2008

Topic: Story Testing.

More details soon.

The meeting is NOT on January 1st. We will make an exception this month and meet on the second tuesday of January 2008. After that we will be return to our normal schedule of meeting on the first Tuesday.

Posted: Wed Dec 26 23:32:00 UTC 2007