Topical Open Space Coding Day?

[Alan Dean]

All,

The thought crossed my mind that it might be worth doing some
'special' Coding Days, where all the sessions must lie within a
general topic.

I would like to hear what people think to the idea and what might be
good general topics might be.

To kick off the kind of topics that come to mind, here are a few:

- Windows Azure
- Real-world ORM
- Test Driven Development
- FIT

There has to be enough meat on the topic to fill a Coding Day, so it
can't too narrow.

It's probably not reasonable to rely upon Conchango to host these
topical days in addition to the normal ones, so this raises the
question: does anyone know of a possible alternative host? Bearing in
mind that hosting involves opening offices on a Saturday.

Regards,
Alan Dean

[Alan Hemmings]

Hi Alan

I have an excellent sponsored venue available (walking distance from train
station) in Cambridge if you wanted to have one of the coding days in
Cambridge just to give the day a more "exotic" (i.e. day trip) feel?

Cathy and I can accommodate up to 3 people at my place (centre Cambridge) if
anyone wanted to stay overnight.

Just an idea...

;-P

Cheers, . . . . the other Alan.

Topic suggestion : Lean frameworks
( we've recently heard a lot about "lean" agile, but what about "lean"
frameworks,... or JIT Frameworks? i.e. when is LINQ 2 SQL more appropriate
to use than nHibernate, or ... how to achieve all the advertised "benefits"
of MVC without MVC (i.e. MVP). Or... instead of using an entire OIC
framework just simply write your service and business layer classes as
static objects, (functional programming will force you to "decouple" your
architecture.)

What made me think about this as a topic, is that I started going through
the "10 minute guide to Linq 2 nHibernate" (here
http://mhinze.com/linq-to-nhibernate-in-10-minutes/ ) and ... 2 days later
....still had not eveb got myself to the point of being able to run the unit
tests for CodeCampServer, a pre-requisite for the "10 minute guide" due to
lots of distracting "human and OS and tool" dependancies.

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[Alan Dean]

Alan,

I like the sound of a day trip up to Cambridge :-)

How many does the venue accommodate? Also, we would need to have internet access (ideally wireless) as Coding Days without connectivity just don't work,

Regards,
Alan Dean

[Ebru Cucen]

Hi,

Here are my suggestions:

 

-WCF

-Unity Framework/Any other interesting application block

[pros and cons comparing to Spring, Ninject, and other depency injectors [may be across web applications]

-Ado.Net Entity Framework

[in addition to the Other Alan, the best way to use inheritance support]

[Ideally a combination of three] 

 

Please apologizes for my question, [since I am newbie in the group],

How the decision will be made [and regarding what kind of criterias]?

 

Regards,

Ebru

 

2009/5/19 Alan Dean <alan...@gmail.com>

[Stuart Campbell]

I'd definitely be interested in a Windows Azure session, and for that matter, an ORM one.

Our office in London E1 would be available but it's probably too small: it could only accommodate 14 people split over 2 rooms.
Cambridge sounds nice though. :)

Stu

[Alan Dean]

Ebru,

The general topic would be decided in advance, for example "Azure Open Space Coding Day", and then attendees would propose and vote on sessions within that topic themselves in the usual way.

Regards,
Alan Dean