Melbourne 2012

Hey guys,

Just a quick not we won't be having a meeting this month I haven't had time to organise everything so we'll start again the last week of Feb.

I also need to change the night to either a Tuesday or a Thursday I think as Wednesdays don't work for me anymore, checkout the poll on the right hand side there to vote for your preferred day.

So for Februaries meeting I think we should finally tackle our Alt.WebFramework showdown so we'll have a bunch of people doing shortish, say 30 or so mins on each of the alt web frameworks out there. I've already spoken to some of you about putting your hand up to do some of these talks so please remind me who you were, and I'll be looking for volunteers to present on the others, first in best dressed!

So far on the list I'm considering:

Fubu MVC

Nancy

OpenRasta (I think I'll do this one)

Manos de Mano

Mono Rail

Anything else?

I was wondering if anyone wanted to look into OWIN and Kayak too perhaps?

Contact me via email if you're interested in presenting.

Code Dojo - November 30th

Hey guys,

I've been away for a lot of this month and I haven't had any offers to present so I thought we could have another attempt at a code dojo. So I'll bring some kata's along and you guys bring yourselves, your laptops and your sense of teamwork. We might even be lucky enough to get few interstate attendees what with it being YOW week and all.

Also I guess this will be our last meeting for the year so I guess we should maybe go grab some dinner afterwards as well? Venue TBA. There will be no pizza served at this event, but we'll still have the beers ;)

Meeting Wednesday October 26th

Ya didn't think I'd forgot did ya?

Well I didn't, this month we have Birger Halfmeier to give us a talk about the new generation of mini ORMs on the rise.

Birgers talk will be "an investigation into how MicroORMs can save you time, prevent errors and make things simpler than completely hand coding your DAL. [He] will look at some of the common annoyances of ADO.NET and how MicroORMs have tried to solve them."

There may be a second more in depth talk on the same topic as well but I'm still trying to finalise that.

As usual beers and pizza c/o our mates at ThoughtWorks.

September Meeting

UPDATE: Now with extra opinion fodder! Dave Burela has agreed to my request to do a lighting talk on the new Windows 8 developments which I'm sure will spark some good conversation!

This month is our first meeting at ThoughtWorks offices on the corner of Collins and Elizabeth St in the city, we will be starting at 6pm and I think the doors downstairs will be locked after that time so you will have to give either I or Maha (Our new ThoughtWorks host) a call, the numbers will be posted on the door.

For the evening proceedings we have Simon Segal talking about task based UI's:

The user interface can sometimes be an afterthought for many developers and building applications
that fit the business needs should require that our user experience is crafted in a way that explicitly solves
business problems. Task based interfaces give us a great opportunity to address the commands in your domain
and with architectural patterns such as CQS, MVC and event sourcing we can explore the rich opportunities that exist in capturing crucial business context that can often be left behind. We will look at when it pays to think explicitly
and when it’s important to leave the CRUD based user interface behind regardless of whether it will technically work.


I would also like to do a little bit of a retrospective on the group. So please come along prepared to contribute! What have we done so far? What did we like? What didn't we like. Where do we want to take it in the future? And how can we achieve that.

And of course I'm sure we will adjourn to some fine upstanding establishment for some further refreshment and civilized debate afterwards.

Please RSVP on the poll to the right so Maha can get the Pizza and Drinks order right.

Changes Afoot

So some changes are afoot in the group. Andrew is having trouble finding the time to organise and host the events so I have stepped up to do the organisation for now.

Unfortunately this means we can no longer continue to use Salmat's facilities, but I would like to thank Salmat for their support up until now.

Thankfully ThoughtWorks have stepped up and are going to be providing us with a venue at their offices on Collins st as well as pizza and drink! I would like to thank both Mustafa Sezgin for acting as our ThoughtWorks host and Chris Bushell for helping me put all the pieces together.

There will be a short break in transmission as I am unable to organise or attend our next scheduled meeting on the 31st of August due to being out of the country, but we will resume our regular schedule of the last Wednesday of every month from September onwards.

Stay Tuned for details.

Cheers

Jim
@pjimmy

July Meeting - IoC

This month we are going to have a presentation from Nick Josevski with a summary of the Readify IoC Dev Day he attended back in June that was presented by Nicholas Blumhardt around Australia.

Nick is a senior software developer at a large marketing and advertising company, having previously worked as a consultant at Oakton on a variety of projects in varying business domains. Nick is on twitter as @NickJosevski and blogs at http://blog.nick.josevski.com

Nick’s presentation will focus around the use of Autofac and will try to cover some of the more advanced features the IoC container provides, such as lifetime management, modules with encapsulated configuration and AutoMockingContainer with NSubstitute. Depending on time and audience, could lead to a deep dive session investigating the Autofac source and/or AutofacContrib source.

Please RSVP using the poll on the right so we can organise pizza and beer.

June Meeting Update

I realised I hadn't posted the links from John's talk on Continuous Delivery last at last months meeting. Once again thanks to John for coming along and talking about his experiences. And finally here is the link to the slides.

http://www.slideshare.net/johnb/envato-dev-ops-altnet-melbourne

Enjoy.