Josh and Chris met up at Manuel's to talk about some future direction for the group. Here are their notes:
EditMeeting Format
To enable better group participation and idea sharing, we've made some changes to how we'll use the time.
- 6:45 - 7:15: Ordering food and drink, socializing
- 7:15 - 7:30: Introductions and topic "sign up" in first-come-first-serve style or announcement preview
- 7:30 - 7:40: Time for any announcements about other events in the area, open positions, etc
- 7:40 - 8:20: Round-table topics in the first come-first-serve format. Max of 8 minutes, no exceptions;
- 8:20 - 8:30: Break time, time for people to follow up with each other in side discussions
- 8:30 - 10:00: Focused topical discussion on materials selected prior to the meeting for group focus
Edit2010.08.02 Topics
- Architectures
- CQRS Architecture
- NoSQL DBs
- When to use NoSQL approach
- CouchDB
- Mongo
- RavenDB
- Cloud Services
- Advantages / Disadvantages
- Amazon
- Azure
- Etc
- DCI Architecture
- See Jim Coplien materials on InfoQ, artima
- ORMs and SQL
- When to use NHibernate
- When to use other mapper tools
- When to avoid mapping
- Professional Development
- Different directions of development
- Development
- Leadership
- Entrepreneurship
- Free courses
- Commercial courses
- Best resources
- User groups
- Professional associations
- Books
- Podcasts
- Videos
- Interactive Training (online, face to face)
- University lectures (free, commercial)
- University programs
- Project Leadership
- Scrum & Kanban
- What is Kanban?
- Kaizen
- Continuous Flow
- .NET Futures
- Directions of the .NET Framework itself
Edit2009.11.15 Topics
- Project management methodologies
- Iterative and Incremental (Agile, Scrum)
- Sequential (Waterfall)
- Others
- Planning and Estimation
- Mike Cohn's Agile Estimation and Planning
- Object Relational Mapping and Data Access
- NHibernate, others
- Custom
- Serialized Objects in DB and parallel reporting DB (idea from D. Laribee)
- Open spaces
- Hands on discussions + learning labs
- Tools for productivity
- Coding dojos
- Software Craftsmanship
- Camtasia tutorials
- Resources for learning, self-education
- Focused, Round-Table Discussions
- Record on MP3 for podcasting and sharing with community
- Communicating w/Business People / Product Owners
- Focus on Value Delivery
- Focus on ROI
- Focus on Time-to-Market
- Focus on Customer Value and Quality
- Helping Younger People
- Opportunities for work, contracts
- Educational goals
- UI Tools and AJAX
- jQuery (soon to be in Visual Studio and DotNetNuke 5.0)
- Dojo
- EXT
- Prototype
- Scriptaculous
- Design Patterns and Principles
- Gang of Four
- Invesion of Control
- SOLID Principles (Uncle Bob)
- Antipatterns
- Testing
- Performance and load tools and practices
- Mock frameworks
- Conferences and Training, Speakers
- Development topics
- Scrum
- Kaizen
- Agile and Scrum
- Non-functional requirements on agile projects
- Third Party Tools
- Microsoft on ALT.NET and Open Source
- Alternative languages
- Alternative Platforms
- Mono
- Silverlight and Moonlight
- Training
- Grass-roots training
- Developer focused
- Business focused
- Management focused