February 2013 – Aliens Kickoff!

Alien Faces Vector Image by Vectorportal

Date: Thursday 28^th February 2013

Time: 7:30pm start

Venue: The Stafford Ale House

Location: Google Maps

Alien Invasion Kickoff

This month we will get started on the Alien Invasion project.

The main repository can be found at https://github.com/agilestaffordshire/Alien-Invasion-Coding-Challenge .
To work on the code, begin by forking the repo in your own account and work from there.
Rob Stothard has been added as a collaborator. Ideally at least one more person would be useful. Let me know if you would like to step forward.

Rob has kindly configured and hosted a TeamCity instance. A DNS record has been configured to point to http://teamcity.agilestaffordshire.org. TeamCity is currently configured to watch the Github repository and build on commit.

The site is hosted at http://www.kidd.org.uk/AlienInvasion/. I am currently trying to get a cname of  http://aliens.agilestaffordshire.org working but am experiencing problems. I have contacted the hosting company to see what can be done.

For task management, an AgileStafforshire organisation has been set up at trello. So please set up an account and pass on your account name or email address to be added to the group.

Outline Agenda

• Code review – It would be useful to familiarise yourself with the code before the meeting
• Characterisation tests – Can we wrap the existing code in tests to avoid regressions?
• Add ported code from SqlServer to MySql – The code already exists and just needs committing
• Definition of initial goals – Where to begin and where do we want to go?
  

Hope to see you there,
Neil.