devG: 1st meeting
Hey!
So yep, a few guys actually turned up.
I was concerned that starting without any fixed agenda was going to be challenging, but a couple topics came out and were discussed rapidly, with everyone contributing.
It was great to have the conversations and chit chat among the group which consisted of different backgrounds converging on Microsoft technologies. There were brief conversations around the current trend in the market, .net, agile, oo + patterns and developers mindset. It was really great hearing the “real world” encounters and very encouraging to see every on the same page.
It seems everyone enjoyed it enough to consider making this a regular adventure. It was agreed that we should arrange another, possibly with a “fixed” technical topic. So in an attempt to keep the ball rolling, I’m going to throw a few suggestions (on a topic) out there, so drop me line and let me know……
- Overview on S.O.L.I.D principles
- Software patterns - although I’d suggest picking a single pattern and discussing it ..
- Microsoft MVC
- Dependency Injection
- BDD
- “Art” of writing transactional stored procs
- Mocking
- Project failure
- NHibenate <added 14.5.09>
- C# 3.5 Lambda’s, extension methods, Linq <added 14.5.09>
If anyone’s got any ideas on a venue again, please pass it on to me.
It seems we’re sticking with devG (developers group) until we find a better one!
I’d like to thank Clive , Hatim, James,Justin, Michael, Owen and Steve for attending and thanks also to the crowd at C’est la vie.
Thanx
Zak
