Agile Testing Tactics for WaterFail, FrAgile, ScrumBut, Kantban, and DevFlops

Speaker: Tim Lyon

Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST

Location: Paladin

Agile development is being used more and more but the Quality Assurance personnel and management are playing catch-up to be able to work in a lean environment and still produce quality testing. Waterfail, FrAgile, ScrumBut, KantBan, and DevFlops are all various amalgamations of different methodologies trying to be shoe horned into existing development and delivery patterns that tend to fall short in quality assurance practices. No one practice fits all but there are various tactics that can be used to help address some of those concerns and better limit the delivery quality exposure – especially in tight turn around projects.

 

 


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RHQ – Enterprise Management Platform

Speaker: Stefan Negrea

Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST

Location: Paladin

This presentation is an introduction to RHQ, a pluggable management platform for administering, monitoring, alerting, and configuring enterprise resources. The presentation will also feature a demo of the recently introduced platform REST interface.

 


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Concurrency in Clojure

Speaker: Matt Havener

Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST

Location: Paladin

This talk gives an introduction to Clojure and a concurrency simulation demonstrating the features of Clojure including: threading, actors, references, Java interop, and higher order functions.

 


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Distributed Domain Driven Design

Speaker: John Jelinek IV

Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST

Location: Paladin

We will explore Distributed Domain Driven Design (DDDD) for building complex business application while maintaining flexibility. Effectively, we will be building a business blueprint that can be deployed to the cloud.

 


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Build better building blocks with SOA

Speaker: Sreeramulu Jadapolu

Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST

Location: Improving Enterprises

Software can easily get really complex. Do you ever feel like the technology drives the business rather than the other way around? Learn how to reel it back in with this month’s talk: Building Better Building Blocks with SOA.

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Infrastructure in One Hour

Speaker: Alex Soncodi

Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7pm – 8pm CST

Location: Improving Enterprises

This discussion covers the basics of setting up an instance on Amazon’s EC2 platform. We will show you how to create and boot your own AMI micro instance from an official Ubuntu EC2 image and set up the canonical LAMP stack.

Then, for kicks, we’ll set up a Git repository and some update/backup shell scripts for a one-click-update style RAD setup. This discussion is aimed at beginner-intermediate developer/network admin.

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