{"id":476,"date":"2013-06-23T13:47:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/?p=476"},"modified":"2013-06-23T13:47:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T13:47:36","slug":"june-2013-alien-invasion-replay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/agile\/june-2013-alien-invasion-replay\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2013 &#8211; Alien Invasion Replay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vectorportal\/7995922814\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Alien Faces Vector Image by Vectorportal, on Flickr Re-coloured\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/aliens_green.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alien Faces Vector Image by Vectorportal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Date: <strong>Thursday 27<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Time: <strong>7:00pm start (Please note time change)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Venue: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/R9X5n\" target=\"_blank\">Staffordshire University &#8211; Stafford Campus<\/a> (K102 &#8211; the Octagon building)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following last months session kicking off the Alien Invasion refactoring process, we discovered that a deeper and fresher understanding of the gameplay and strategies to defend earth would hopefully lead to a quicker and improved refactoring. After further discussion, we decided the best way to learn the problem domain would be to play the game again. Therefore, June&#8217;s session will be to have another go at Alien Invasion; a chance to kick some Alien Butt whilst trying to think how REST or other paradigms could be used to allow the kata to become language agnostic.<\/p>\n<p>We have a live server running, so the pre-requisites for the session will be VS2010, an Nunit compliant test running (NUnit-console, Resharper, NCrunch or others). The distributable game component will be provided on a USB stick.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Thursday 27th\u00a0June 2013 Time: 7:00pm start (Please note time change) Venue: Staffordshire University &#8211; Stafford Campus (K102 &#8211; the Octagon building) Following last months session kicking off the Alien Invasion refactoring process, we discovered that a deeper and fresher understanding of the gameplay and strategies to defend earth would hopefully lead to a quicker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,26,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r37M-7G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}