Boise Open Spaces addendum

June 4th, 2008

Thanks David for a great recap of the open spaces event (Boise Open Spaces Recap).  I just wanted to add a couple things.

There were many great topics suggested for discussion.  Unfortunately, there was not enough time to take them all.  We voted and ones discussed included:

  • ORMs
    • Teaching ORM
    • Which ones (other then .net)
  • Roles on a team
    • Non-coding architects.  What to do when you are pulled farther from the code?
    • The problem of the distant product owner.  How to deal with it?
  • Testing
    • How to get an organization to do TDD?
    • Unit tests.  How to do on legacy code base?
    • Testing in an agile environment.  Techniques, tools, etc
  • Domain Driven Design

Those that we were unable to get to, but still great topics, included:

  • Dynamic Language Features.  Duck typing, ext methods, etc  Good, bad?
  • Error handling techniques
  • Model/View/ViewModel

Again, many thanks to all who participated.  There were great discussions.

We will set these up once a quarter.  If you have any feedback on the session, venue, discussion, etc please send it my way. 

See you next quarter (first Tuesday in September timeframe)!!!

Scott Schimanski Esoterica

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