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November 2006 - Posts

• December 2006 Meeting: Refactoring

  Topic: Refactoring Refactoring - An art and mindset to constantly changing the structure of existing code in order to make it more readable and maintainable.  So how can we be sure that constantly changing our code does not break our functionality?  Having automated tests is a big part to refactoring success.  We will use Nunit and the refactoring tools available within Visual Studio 2005 during our discussion.  We will also talk about how certain code patterns feel or 'smell' bad and should be refactored.  By the end of our discussion you will be able to recognize bad 'smells' within your own code and have the urge to refactor them. Presenter: Paul Spencer Paul Spencer is a Software Development Consultant for Strategic Data Systems, Inc. He has worked on Agile developed projects for the past 3 years.  His Agile experience is derived from XP and ranges from remote projects with a skilled Agile team to individually mentoring Agile processes within both a corporate and startup company setting.  He has been working as a consultant for the past 9 years. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 19th at 6:00PM at Max Technical Training in Mason Ohio.  Posted Nov 29 2006, 01:57 PM by MikeWo with no comments Filed under: Meeting Annoucements

• Code Camp Registration is now open!

  The Cincinnati-Dayton Area Code Camp 2007 is now open for registration!  Send this out to everyone at your company that may be interested.  The Cincinnati-Dayton Code Camp is back for it's second year! There will be 4 presentation tracks including talks on the latest .NET technologies, agile practices, and even some non-.NET presentations on topics like Ruby. Spend a day learning more about .NET and meet other developers who are passionate about developing applications.  You can learn more about the sessions as they are announced at http://www.cinnug.org/codecamp.aspx. Registration for the Code Camp is now open: Register online! [Edit] A shorter URL for the registration page is http://shrinkster.com/kav ... much easier to remember and share with others! Posted Nov 26 2006, 02:39 PM by MikeWo with no comments Filed under: General News

• Great Turn out for Ajax talk

  Once again a talk on AJAX has pulled out the crowd.  We had 45 attendees last night at the CINNUG meeting in Mason.  That doesn't even count the people who may have accidentally gone to the Microsoft Office or old Max Train location in Norwood (I've actually not hear of anyone who did...but you never know).  I believe that is the second highest attendance next to the AJAX talk Bill Steele did which had 70! The new facility at MaxTrain is awesome with plenty of room for more attendees.  Next time we'll be ready with more chairs already put out.  James Avery gave the talk on the groups two year anniversary!  He also gave the first talk back in November of 2004 (ignore the date of the post...it got changed during a site upgrade).  Hopefully the group will just keep growing! James' slides and code have been posted to the download page.  Have at it. Posted Nov 22 2006, 09:35 AM by MikeWo with no comments Filed under: General News

• 2007 Code Camp Call for Speakers!

  The 2006 Cincinnati-Dayton Code Camp was a success because we had great speakers!  We need to repeat that success for the 2007 Code Camp by having the same level of material and expertise in the presentations.  If you're reading this and submitting a topic then YOU are one of  the ones that will make this Code Camp a success.  Please download this form and submit by January 5th, 2007. Posted Nov 19 2006, 10:04 PM by MikeWo with no comments Filed under: General News