At our meeting tonight Ryan Shriver is speaking about this practical topic. We had to move the meeting forward a week to dodge the holidays and a trip Ryan is making to London for another conference.
In addition to having a great speaker in the house, we're also giving away some great No Fluff, Just Stuff swag. We've got a free pass to the Research Triangle Software Symposium show to give away (an $800 value), and a few NFJS 2007 shirts, a NFJS backpack, and copies of the No Fluff Just Stuff Anthology- 2007 Edition.
Our pizza sponsors tonight are Agile Artisans (where have I heard that name before?) and The Ettain Group.
Here's our Meetup Page with directions and more information. Our "official" starting time is 6 pm, but it gets rolling about 6:15 or 6:30. Come out and meet local agilists from the Java, Ruby, and C# space. It's a great chance to meet great people and do some local networking.
This week I was in Iowa for both a Central Iowa Java Users's Group meeting and Agile Iowa meeting. (The trip was sponsored by the Central Iowa Software Symposium... coming in August!) One of the attendees commented on how they had to move away from CruiseControl because it was single threaded and they needed a more scalable solution.
First, let me say that there are tons of great Continuous Integration tools available (see this chart for a list). I'm more concerned with whether or not you run ~any~ continuous integration software that whether or not you run my favorite CI package.
But I hate to see anyone switch away from CruiseControl because they aren't aware of the feature set. CC has threaded builds and distributed builds. Both features are turned off by default to make your initial set up as easy and painless as possible, but the features are there.
To learn how to turn on threading in CruiseControl, read this configuration document. Just add the system/configuration/threads elements to your config.xml and the functionality will be enabled.
Directions on how to run CruiseControl builds distributed across machines can be found on this page. I think this page is up to date, but visit the CruiseControl user's list for the absolute latest information.
Tonight's Agile RTP meeting features local XP guru Ken Auer.
The meeting is going to be very interactive and will feature a lot of time for audience interaction. Ken has run a local shop for years based on the XP methodolgy. He has a ton of real-world, practical advice for us on how to make the ideas work on a day to day basis.
Come join us at 6 pm at Frankie's and be sure to hang out afterwards for mini-golf, race cars, and networking. :)
I hope this doesn't inconvenience anyone but we had to move the early bird discount end date to June 29th for logistical and planning reasons.
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See you there!
I'll be traveling to San Jose in July to participate in The Agile Experience. The slate of speakers looks great and I'm expecting to have a great time.
I suspect this is going to be one of those conferences where you're annoyed that you're speaking because you're missing great content in the next room. And when you're not speaking, there are multiple talks you want to attend at the same time. :) It's a good problem to have.
Early bird registration ends on June 25th, so if you haven't registered, don't wait.
Just a quick reminder, if you're in the Research Triangle Park, come join us at Agile RTP at our first meeting. I announced it here last week, but I find people tend to attend events better when they are announced on the day of the event.
Neil Fox and Symphony are buying a few snacks and appetizers before the meeting, so come early to mingle. Remember that we'll be meeting in a restaurant, so feel free to eat at Frankie's. We officially start at 6:30, but show up at 6 for the meet and greet.
We'll also have a few books, t-shirts, and park passes (for the go carts) for a small raffle drawing as well.
I hope to see you there!
