TDD Meeting, and Normal Meeting

I have two meetings to tell you about.

Next Wednesday, June 3rd at 7 PM at CoLab Orlando, we’re going to have a small TDD Dojo with Corey Haines who will be in town for Day of Ruby. Corey, in case you’re not familiar, is the Journeyman Programmer who travels around the country pairing with people. Since he’s quite fluent with TDD, he offered to help us put together an impromptu TDD Dojo (10 minute round-robin ping-pong programming), plus some discussion on good programming practices, and doing BDD in Ruby. I get the feeling beer may happen afterward.

A few of us Rubyists recently rented an office space at CoLab, #604 on the 6th floor. Feel free to come by and see our digs before 5:30 PM, and you can join us for dinner before the meeting. If you get to the meeting late, you may need to call me at 407-754-5517 so I can let you in.

Secondly, our normal meeting will be Thursday, June 11th at Devry (Room 114) starting at 7 PM (6 PM for food and networking). Ed Burns will be discussing highlights of his recently published his book entitled Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers, which is a collection of interviews with some of today’s top programmers. Two programmers in the book you may be familiar with are Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas.

We’ll run through the book by looking at a cross section of secrets (aka character attributes) exhibited by the rockstars, listening to audio clips from the actual interviews along the way.

We’re still looking for a sponsor for this meeting, so let me know if you or your company might be interested.