2011.june.md

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June Admin Meeting

Action Items

• Sasha, remind Shane to email Infragistics about $400. done.
• Shane to email Infragistics about getting us some money ($400)
• Jon to contact fog creek dude again.
• Jon to ping Alex about git series #2 topic
• Jon to ping Shinkle about story mapping
• Jon to ping Rob Conery about TekPub

New Business

July

• Lightning Bowl!

August

• Alex - Git
• Mobile Web Development - Sasha
  • target device size/resolution
  • subdomain (m.whatever.com vs. sniffing user-agent)
  • different site/UX vs. just using different CSS media types
• Follow up discussion/fishbowl?
• See if Brian has shortish talk
• Shinkle Story Mapping ?
• Fog Creek Dude ?
• Lightning Fishbowl ?

September

• Mobile phone hacks/alternatives
  • iOS
  • Android
  • WP7

Lightning Talk Bucket

• Refactoring - Dean
• NuGet + OpenWrap
• Lightning Talk - autorefresh/watchr
• Anti-If Campaign - Mike
• Design Patterns - Dean
• Greg - Google Closure
• Shawn - Coffee Roasting
• MEF
• T4
• Favorite Tools

Future Topic Idea Bucket

• Code Dojo/Workshop/Contest (project euler/katacast)
• Chris Shinkle about Story Mapping
• Evented code - thin, unicorn, rainbows, node, kayak, mongrel2, zeromq, etc.
• Editor Showdown/Tooling
• AOP (weaving, etc.) + Dynamic Proxy
• Software Craftsmanship (Brian Ball)
• Low-level/Hardware Platform concerns and Profiling (CPU/IO/Memory/Network)
• Node.js
• Profiling
• Virtualization - Single box n-tier dev environment
• Personal Branding/Self Marketing
• Personal/Professional Development (e.g. how do I find the time)
• Bitchfest - Dean is responsible for beer

Fishbowls:

• Half Bowl - Work Item Breakdown Discussion - Everyone?
• Building a professional network
• Effective Organizational Change
• Low-level/Hardware Platform concerns (CPU/IO/Memory/Network) - Fishbowl+Pres
• Roles Fishbowl (again)
• War-Stories
• Interviewing techniques

Random thoughts:

• Buzzword Bingo is a decent idea to do sometime