July's meeting will feature international agilist/developer/speaker Joshua Kerievsky talking about the "Limited Red Society". Hands on examples of limiting failing tests while undertaking significant refactoring.

We will also be giving away a FREE PASS to the upcoming Central Iowa Software Symposium (No Fluff Just Stuff) (That's an $800 value). The conference takes place July 30th - August 1st at the West Des Moines Sheraton.

Time: 6/1/2010  6:00

Food: Pizza will be provided

 Some info on Joshua:
Joshua Kerievsky is a hands-on programmer, entrepreneur, author and
globally recognized agile teacher/coach.  After writing software on
Wall Street for over 7 years, he founded Industrial Logic in 1996 to
share the "light and magic" of software development.  Joshua's 2004
bestselling book, Refactoring to Patterns, won a Jolt Cola award and
his 10 multimedia eLearning albums help people around the globe
practice and gain agile skills.  Joshua is passionate about extremely
useful software and the people/processes that help to produce it.

Limited Red Society

You've heard about limiting WIP (Work-In-Progress) but how good are
you at limiting red time? Red time is when you have compilation errors
and/or failing tests. A growing group of practitioners have learned
how to effectively reduce red time while test-driving and refactoring
code. To understand how to limit red time, it helps to visualize it.
In this talk, I will analyze live programming sessions using graphs
that clearly visualize red time. You'll learn what programming
processes help or hurt our ability to limit red time and you'll gain
an appreciation for the visual cues that can help make you a better
programmer and fellow member of the Limited Red Society.