Slides for the first meetup of CodeSlice (a technology focused meetup).

1. ”Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle K” - Ted "Theodore" Logan (1989)

3. CodeSlice API protectedclassCodeSlice { publicHubHub { get; set; } publicLab[] Labs { get; set; } publicProject[] Projects { get; set; } } protectedclassHub { publicArticle[] News { get; set; } publicArticle[] Blogs { get; set; } publicArticle[] Articles { get; set; } publicEvent[] Events { get; set; } publicWikiWiki { get; set; } }

4. The Hub

5. The Hub Central hub for all content Blogs News Upcoming Events Labs Projects Wiki Research in Itself Orchard CMS ScrewTurnWiki Publically accessible Internally initially

6. Projects & Labs - http://github.com/codeslice Projects Labs Projects under Permissive License Crowdsourceimprovement First 2 Projects Bundler KDF.Lite Standalone experiments Reference Solution Pizza Builder Ideas app (?) Branch for each lab

7. Technology List

8. Technology List Master List of Techs New Incubating Approved Recommended Deprecated Rejected 114 techs so far! Kept up to date Reviewed regularly Key Areas Testing Data Access Platform Integration

9. Controversial! On Data Access “CSLA is too complex for 99.9% of our projects” “iBatis/myBatis is far too fiddly” On Testing “We don’t do enough development focused testing” “We aren’t doing testing correctly”

10. CodeSlice.Futures

11. CodeSlice.Futures OPTIMISM!

12. CodeSlice.Attendance 6 Months 20 people (optimistic) Peak of Career Review Novelty Attendance Plateau of Nerdy Normality Climb of Enthusiasm Valley of “It’ll Never Work in Kainos” Meetings

13. CodeSlice.Futures protectedclassCodeSlice internalclassCodeSlice publicclassCodeSlice

14. Tasks Orchard CMS Setup Theme Wiki Technology List Review Add more Incubate more Reject more Bundler Tests Documentation KDF.Lite Define scope Documentation Promotion of CodeSlice Peers, Yammer etc. Enthusiasm Reference Solutions Meetup Logistics