Hey Folks!
CINNUG appreciates all your feedback! We gathered all the suggestions and read your ideas. Now we are ready to hold our next Fire Starter, Software Quality, on October 9, 2010 (see details below).
Last month one of our directors, Mike Wood, gave a soft skills presentation on Becoming a Better Developer. If this presentation left you wanting more, check out the rest of the series at http://mvwood.com/beabetterdeveloper.
The grok talk on Configuration Data and Dependencies was given by Mike Levy.
The CINNUG team
What's in this Newsletter?
- September BitSlingers - 09/13/10
- September CinArc - 09/16/10
- September CINNUG - 09/28/10
- Cincinnati Day of Ruby - 09/11/10
- Software Quality Fire Starter - 10/09/10
- Houston Tech Fest - 10/09/10
- Southwest Ohio Give Camp - 10/22/10 - 10/24/10
- NWA Code Camp - 10/23/10
- Our sponsors - they pay for the pizza
UPCOMING MEETINGS:
September BitSlingers
Monday, September 13th - 6:00PM- Panera Bread - Mason Montgomery - Mason, OH
This month BitSlingers will meet on the second Monday of the month due to the Labor Day holiday.
What is BitSlingers?
This is an informal meetup of people interested in learning from one another. Bring your laptop and pair up with someone to work on an open source project, learn a new technique, or even dabble in a new language. There is no agenda or specific topic, just a time set aside for people to pair.
The meetup officially kicks off at 6:00PM, but lasts until the last pair breaks up, or they kick us out. Feel free to come and join us for as long, or as short, of a time as you want to.
NOTE: There will be no food provided, but hey, we're at Panera.
September CinArc
Thursday, September 16th - 6:00PM - MAX Technical Training - Mason, OH
Come join this new special interest group as we discuss topics related to software architecture.
This meeting is run using an open discussion or open fishbowl technique where the attendees are encouraged to share their thoughts with everyone while keeping the meeting from becoming a free for all. :)
What topic will we cover? Well, that's up to the attendees!
As usual, pizza will be provided at no charge thanks to our sponsors!
September CINNUG - Kill Bugs Faster using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Advanced Diagnostics (IntelliTraceTM and Test Automation) by Randy Pagels
Tuesday, September 28th - 6:00PM; Social Time - 5:30PM - MAX Technical Training - Mason, OH
Randy Pagels is a Sr. Developer Technology Specialist and part of the Developer Platform and Evangelism tools team covering the Heartland District (MI, OH, KY, TN). He will show us how to Kill Bugs Faster using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Advanced Diagnostics (IntelliTraceTM and Test Automation).
As applications become more complex and pressures to decrease costs increase, we need tools to facilitate reducing the turn-around time for testers and developers to find and fix bugs.
Microsoft Test and Lab Manager enables testers to collect more detailed diagnostic data during a test run leading to higher quality bugs that provide more insight to the developers on what actually went wrong when the bug occurred.
With the addition of Test Strips, testers can generate automation as an artifact of their test runs helping to not only increase coverage of the application, but reducing the time it takes to manually test the application.
Test Impact Analysis helps developers test the right automated tests from within Visual Studio, while testers know what the right set of tests to prioritize and run are given recent changes introduced by the development organization.
The grok talk on Jump Lists in Windows 7 will be given by one of our directors, Mike Wood. The grok talk about the LinqPad tool will be given by one of our directors, Mike Wood.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Cincinnati Day of Ruby
Saturday, September 11th - 7:30AM to 4:00PM - Miami University's VOALC - West Chester, OH
This one day session takes you through the basics of Ruby the language in the morning and then how to make something real in Ruby on Rails in the afternoon.
Get your hands on the future while surrounded by the experts to help you along.
This is how the day flows:
- Registration 7:30-9:00
- Laptop setup help 7:30-8:30
- Introduction to Ruby with Koans (EdgeCase's Jim Weirich) 9:00-12:00
- Lunch (provided) 12:00-13:00
- Rails in a day (Gaslight Software's Chris Nelson & Doug Alcorn) 13:00-16:00
For more information and to register, please visit http://cincydayofruby.eventbrite.com/.
CINNUG Software Quality Fire Starter
Saturday, October 9th - 8:30AM to 5:00PM - Microsoft Office, Mason OH
Whether you consider yourself a craftsman, a professional or simply a developer who cares about what you are doing building quality software is probably on your mind.
One would think that quality software is the goal in any project, but it always seems like there are hurdles in the way.
CINNUG is hosting a day long special event devoted to Building Quality Software. We'll cover topics like unit testing, performance and load testing, continuous integration and more.
In addition to our presentations we will host a panel at lunch to have an open discussion on the main topic of Software Quality.
Registration opens September 9th at http://cinnug.eventbrite.com/.
Houston Tech Fest (HTF)
Saturday, October 9th - 8:00AM to 6:00PM - University of Houston Main Campus - Houston, TX
The agenda is set for HTF. Check it out as there is something for everyone.
The Website for Houston Techfest 2010 is now open for Pre-Registration. They had 853 attendees last year and are looking to break 1000 this year
They have a great line up of speakers this year with over 80 presentations on the Agenda. Their Keynote speaker is Venkat Subramaniam.
This is the single largest event in the Central Region. Register now so you can come out and be part of the awesomeness!
Southwest Ohio Give Camp
Friday, October 22nd thru Sunday, October 24th - Miami VOALC - West Chester, OH
Give Camp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations. The only limitation is that the project should be scoped to be able to be completed in a weekend.
If you are a developer/designer/project manager looking to make a difference and use your skills to assist others, this is the place to be October 22, 23, 24, 2010!
Please visit the Volunteer section to get signed up!
NWA Code Camp
Saturday, October 23rd - 8:00AM to 5:30PM - Tyson World Headquarters - Springdale, AR
This year the Northwest Arkansas Code Camp is aligning this event with the Tyson Development Conference, a 2 day internal conference for Tyson Foods.
Tyson is sponsoring this event by providing the venue and keeping some speakers from their conference another night so they can present at this event.
This year we will celebrate the growth of our community with the addition of new tracks for Project Managers, Designers, and more.