Tucson Developer's Coop

Notes from the June meeting, a bit late:

– we had what was certainly the most entertaining ‘Hello, World’ program I have ever seen, in a python obfuscation demonstration

- an interesting discussion of handling noise in rapid, large scale data collection

- test system coverage with pros and cons of different .NET integrations (using a built-in form generator vs going a more straight coding route; as you might expect the latter is harder for beginners, but more flexible and scalable in the long run).

I neglected to take real-time notes and am writing this a few weeks later, so please feel free to edit the above! See you all soon

–Golda

We have the Santa Rita meeting room at the Main Library next Wed Apr 28th 2010, from 6PM – 7:45PM.

Our next meetings are scheduled for

• Thurs Feb 25 6PM-7:45PM at the Martha Cooper library on Catalina

and

• Wed Mar 31 6PM-7:45PM at Himmel library

We’ll have short presentations on using Mashup APIs and/or Google code toolkit, then take turns with the mike to show our stuff to each other.

All are welcome, there is no charge to attend. Many of our members also belong to the Tucson Computer Society and Francis usually posts information about them to the TCS website, but you don’t have to be a member of anything to come.

(Prefer assembling components to inheritance when possible – a good design patterns rule)

Kick-off Unmeeting : Wed. Jan 27 6:30-8 PM
@ Himmel Library Meeting Room

See printable flyer

Bring your ideas and projects in progress!

Agenda:

– Brief introductions and some info on collaboration tools

– Working time while we help each other with ideas and projects. Jumpstart, brainstorm, troubleshoot, check out and give feedback.

The Co-op is non-denominational: Perl, Java, PHP, Javascript, CSS/HTML, tool users and others all welcome.
For more information see http://tucson.devcoop.org or contact Golda at gvelez17@gmail.com * 440-1420. Affiliated with the Tucson Computer Society Developers’ SIG : http://aztcs.org/sigs/.

Teams are cool, bosses less so. Welcome to dev co-op, where you have colleagues without the pointy-haired guy.

So, what is the difference between this site and the other developer forums?

Not much, except that we also meet in person once a month or so here in Tucson, and so the relationship is a little bit less anonymous. Instead of just answering one-off questions, our goal is to encourage each other with projects and do the things that co-workers normally do (well, the positive ones): review each other’s work, suggest approaches, help debug and unstick each other. Meetings can turn into active work sessions, and you’re encouraged to type while talking.

We sometimes also have informative presentations and group discussions on topics relevant to software development and information technology.

Several of our members also belong to the Tucson Computer Society, a remarkable organization of local computer users. TCS has been around since 1982, and has survived where a lot of users’ groups have not.

Our next meeting will be on May 22, 2012 (4th Tuesday of the month), starting at 6:30pm, in the Miss Saigon Vietnamese & Chinese restaurant located at 1072 Campbell Ave.

Miss Saigon is on the E side of Campbell just south of Speedway. It has a decent parking lot.

Miss Saigon
1072 N. Campbell Ave.
Tucson AZ 85719

520-320-9511

6:30 pm as usual.

GPS caution: there is *also* a different Miss Saigon restaurant location elsewhere in the Tucson area, so if a computer is telling you where to drive, make sure to go to the correct restaurant.