#devKL - Language & Expression

#devKL is a biweekly meetup to encourage local software developers to collaborate and learn from each other. We're hoping to build the development community by providing group mentorship, and encouraging members to connect and continue the collaboration between events.

Each session's topic is announced a week ahead of time. If you'd like to present a topic or facilitate a session, please contact Adrian (adrian@syndicatetheory.com).

This Week

We're going to talk about how programming languages or paradigms improve or degrade our power of expression. If our goal (intent) of the application is to solve problem X,, it's important to express that intent in such a way that is easily understandable and not too technical. Frameworks and tools tend to dilute our intent.

This sort of aligns with concepts of Domain Driven Design, but we'll try to avoid any dogmatic discussions around specific approaches.

Potential Topic Areas

Development methodologies (Agile, TDD, BDD, DDD, XP, etc.)

Teamwork / Collaboration (tools, workflows, remote work, etc.)

Application lifecycle / Product development

Software architecture (design patterns, craftsmanship, etc.)

Automated testing / deployment

Languages, frameworks, tools, etc.

Industry (local, remote)

(basically anything software related, but from a web development perspective)

Audience

Software developers (hired, looking, in start-ups, etc.)

People who work with developers (technical team, managers, etc)

People looking for group mentorship