Coder Society Seattle, Meeting this Saturday

Here it comes. Coder Society Seattle, Inaugural Kick Off!

I hope you can make it. Here’s the plan so far. We’re all meeting at Blue Box in beautiful downtown Seattle at 10am. We’ll setup a board (ala kanban style) and immediately jump into breaking our domain out (re: See the Coder Society Google Group for conversation around this, or check out below). I’ll have the post its, you bring the desire to learn new frameworks and build a cool something another!

One thing learned while getting things done and learning at the first Coder Society Portland meeting was that building infrastructure elements really held us back. So for this meet up we’ll dive straight into a PaaS option with Iron Foundry’s Cloud Foundry Environment. This will allow us to use almost any environment application option we want and couple it to whatever database.

Some of the things you’ll need for the meet up:

1. Desire to learn.
2. Intent to code, code, and deploy.
3. You will need a laptop. So buy one, steal it, borrow it, or whatever you gotta do.

Here’s a run down of our initial kick off goals. Polyglot applications for the win!

Here’s a review of our goals for the meeting:

Primary Goal: PolyGlot Systems
For this we will do a simple project where we pick technologies using at least two different programming languages and have them perform different roles in an application and share information across something neutral like Mongo or Redis. The prime choices, and we can add others, will be to use Node.js/Express.js + Ruby & Sinatra, and possibly C#/.NET MVC. This all depends on the desire of the meeting audience.

Stories: We’re kicking off the meeting goal with a theme many software developers will be super familiar with. Coffee!

• A coffee drinker wants to add a rating for the coffee beverage.
• A coffee drinker wants to list the price of the coffee beverage.
• A coffee drinker wants to review the Barista.
• A coffee drinker wants to rate the Barista.
• A coffee drinker wants to know where the beverage.
• A coffee drinker wants to know where the Barista was working.
• A coffee drinker doesn’t want to read huge reviews.
• A Barista wants to be able to list their coffees they use.
• A Barista wants to be able to comment on reviews.
• A Barista wants to be able to list their prices for coffee.
• A Barista wants to be able to select their specialty.
• A Barista or coffee drinker wants to be able to add or view outlets, wifi, or other information about the coffee shop.
• A coffee drinker wants to be able to “follow” their favorite Barista.
• A Barista wants to be able to send an alert to all of their coffee drinkers.

Arbitrary Limits:

• Coffee Drinks are limited to: Cappuccinos, Lattes, Mochas, Macchiatos, Espresso.
• We’ll be deploying to the Iron Foundry (Cloud Foundry core) PaaS, which really doesn’t put any particular limitations on us.  😉

Frameworks: After splitting into teams, we’ll iron out which frameworks we want to use and implement using the choice frameworks.

• Node.js + Express.js / Bricks.js
• Ruby on Rails
• Ruby + Sinatra
• ASP.NET MVC
• Assembly. Ya know, for the insanely hard core. 🙂

Database:

• Mongo DB, maybe Redis, Postgresl, or Neo4j if needs arise.

Prerequisites:

• Bring a Laptop (or computing device you can do development on).
• Bring some familiarity for setting up and using your development platform. This could be .NET, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Node.js, PHP, or whatever.
• Bring a spirit to learn about new frameworks, get all polyglot, and have fun.

Meeting Workflow:

1. The meeting will join.
2. Teams will form.
3. The kanban board will be explained and setup for use by the teams.
4. We’ll unpack the user stories, setup workflow, and idea behind the meeting will be reviewed.
5. Select team technology & domain element (barista or coffee drinker).
6. Setup tasks within teams.
7. Pick pairs to work on tasks.
8. Code… implement…
9. After implementation, we’ll review everything, and trade war stories.