Houston Java Users Group January Meeting
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Greetings. Our first HJUG meeting of 2008 was last night and it was a great success. We had a huge turnout (32) and heard great feedback from the participants. John Tyler presented an assessment of his work using Fit and gave a different prospective than what the HJUG is used to, choosing to discuss more of a business-wise side of testing, rather than a tutorial on the product. It was very informative and John did a great job straddling the business-IT fence and discussing integrated testing through the eyes of product owners and developers. It was great to hear an honest (and even negative at times) assessment about a product, rather than the normal "wow-this-is-the-greatest" presentations.
Special thanks to Coolhires for sponsoring the event.
I also picked up Kent Beck's book Implementation Patterns which I will be writing a review for. Started it this morning on the bus ride in to work, and so far it looks interesting. Not a run-of-the-mill patterns book, but rather an introspective on why we code the way we do. There are a few quotes in the introduction that will become subjects of posts very soon.
Here's some pics from the meeting. Our next meeting is February 27th on Grid Computing. See you there.
