Geek Night in Pune
ThoughtWorks invites you to the first edition of Geek Nights in Pune. Geek Night is an informal gathering of geeks (read passionate developers who want to work on cutting edge technology) where we pick a hot tech topic, discuss it and learn from each others experiences and perspectives. This has been a big hit in Bangalore where we have organized quite a few sessions in the past. The techie community has pretty much fallen in love with the concept of not only giving gyan but also recieving it in a very interactive mode.
The topics for these Geek Nights may range from stuff like Ruby on Rails to proven open source tools like Hibernate or Spring. We also indulge in Code Jams where we get our laptops into a room and go about solving a problem and discuss our solutions till the food is over (we do tend to feel hungry and thirsty during these sessions and keep some snacks handy!)
Details of the next Geek Night session
Date: Saturday, 10th February 2007
Time: 2 pm to 6pm
Venue: ThoughtWorks Pune Office
Address:
ThoughtWorks Technologies
Ground Floor, Tower C, Panchshil Tech Park (near Don Bosco School),
Yerwada, Pune.
Session 1: Google Web Toolkit
Time: 2 pm to 3:30 pm
Presenters: Sriram and Nikhil
Sriram and Nikhil have been using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) in their current project. They say GWT has completely changed the way they think about designing web applications. They discuss the key differentiators of GWT as compared to the other Ajax frameworks along with a few best practices they have evolved over their time working with it.
References:
Session 2: Practicing Extreme Programming
Time: 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Presenters: Mahadeo and Raghu
Maha and Raghu have been following Extreme Programming (XP) on their projects in ThoughtWorks for a few years now. They plan to tell us about how the development level practices in XP bring huge benefits to the developers and to the team.
Here the XP practices they plan to demonstrate with the help of a coding problem.
• Test Driven Development (TDD) -
• Pair Programming
• Evolutionary design
• Refactoring
References:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgramming
http://www.refactoring.com
If you are interested in attending these sessions please sign up on this page on the Geeknights wiki. Also join the Google Group at [ http://groups.google.com/group/ThoughtWorks-Bangalore-Geek-Nights] and we shall keep you posted on the dates and topics for the next Geek Nights.
In case you have any questions/clarifications feel free to contact
Chirag (email: chirag [dot] doshi [at] gmail [dot] com) or Nikhil (nfernand[at]thoughtworks[dot]com)
http://assal-puneri.blogspot.com/
