{"id":224,"date":"2012-07-11T12:57:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T12:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/?p=224"},"modified":"2012-07-11T12:57:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T12:57:58","slug":"june-2012-the-ideas-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/meeting-2\/june-2012-the-ideas-session\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2012 \u2013 The Ideas Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bulbimage\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Who Else Has A Bright Idea? by nhuisman, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nhuisman\/3168683736\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-bulbimage\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3123\/3168683736_304641aa66_n.jpg\" alt=\"Who Else Has A Bright Idea?\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-bulbimage\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who Else Has A Bright Idea? by nhuisman, on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was nice to see a good number of people turning up for this months meeting, especially as there was no defined plan.<\/p>\n<p>This session was intended to be an informal <a title=\"open-space\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open-space_meeting\" target=\"_blank\">open-space<\/a> type meeting, with a view to generating ideas for future sessions. The contrast between the <a title=\"google group\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/agilestaffordshire?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">google group<\/a> and the meeting was startling, proving that co-location, good food and beer are ideal ingredients to get a discussion going.<\/p>\n<p>To generate a backlog of ideas we held a productive brainstorming session, with the post-its kindly sponsored by <a title=\"Codeweavers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.codeweavers.net\" target=\"_blank\">Codeweavers<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h2>Outcomes<\/h2>\n<h3>Future Meeting Dates<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>We will fix meeting dates to the last Tuesday of each month. This way attendees know well in advance and can make plans accordingly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Backlog Management<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>There was some discussion regarding how to manage our ideas and Rob mentioned a project called <a title=\"Idea Strike\" href=\"http:\/\/code52.org \/Ideastrike\/\" target=\"_blank\">Idea Strike<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It was agreed the list should be held and maintained on the blog. To achieve this we require more accounts on the blog. <strong>If you would like an account please let Neil know at the next meeting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Ideas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Document databases.<\/li>\n<li>NoSql databases.<\/li>\n<li>Fortran vs ?<\/li>\n<li>Show and tell sessions &#8211; E.G. &#8220;What I have been doing lately that is interesting.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Bit hacks &#8211; bit shifts<\/li>\n<li>Assembly create &#8211; <strong>can someone elaborate on this please?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Phil does c. Subject to Phil accepting Trevor&#8217;s kind invitation! (Merged with procedural programming)<\/li>\n<li>Concurrency without locks<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/css.dzone.com\/articles\/object-calisthenics\" target=\"_blank\">Object calisthenics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Minisculus\" href=\"http:\/\/minisculuschallenge.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Minisculus challenge<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Alien Invasion &#8211; Neil has the code running on his hosting for this.<\/li>\n<li>Development without inheritance<\/li>\n<li>Patterns and practices in objective c &#8211; Common design patterns in games.<\/li>\n<li>Sparse matrices in C# &#8211; E.G. for Laplacian<\/li>\n<li>Refactoring to strictly SOLID principles.<\/li>\n<li>Algorithms, loops , 0(1) 0(n) 0(n &#8216;2) 0(n &#8216; 3) 0(log n) 0(n &#8211; log n)<\/li>\n<li>High availability techniques<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s create a project together<\/li>\n<li>GUI dynamic integration<\/li>\n<li>Kata &#8211; the chess game, movements of the knight<\/li>\n<li>Python in real world usage, testing idioms etc<\/li>\n<li>Functional programming &#8211; Ocaml, F# &#8230;<a title=\"http:\/\/leanpub.com\/fp-oo\" href=\"http:\/\/leanpub.com\/fp-oo\" target=\"_blank\"> Brian Marick has started a book<\/a> on leanpub that may be useful.<\/li>\n<li>Integration of Matlab into c#<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Refuctoring\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7RJmoCWx4cE\" target=\"_blank\">Refuctoring<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Build scripts for a given project<\/li>\n<li>Essential processes in an agile world<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Rasberry PI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry PI<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Integrating into existing systems &#8211; Finding in-roads to automatica<\/li>\n<li>Performance optimisation kata<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please feel free to catch up with me, get an account and edit this list.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\nNeil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nice to see a good number of people turning up for this months meeting, especially as there was no defined plan. 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