Central Ohio .NET Group - Topics - Continuous Integration, Branching & Merging

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Topic Continuous Integration: More than just a toolset

Abstract Does your team spend days integrating code at the end of a project? Continuous Integration can help. Using Continuous Integration will eliminate that end-of-project integration stress, and at the same time will make your development process easier. But Continuous Integration is more than just a tool like CruiseControl.Net or TeamCity; it is a full development process designed to bring you closer to your mainline, increase visibility of project status throughout your team, and to streamline deployments to QA or to your client. Find out what Continuous Integration is all about, and what it can do for you.

Speaker Jay is a .NET developer, a software consultant, and is president of Arana Software (www.aranasoft.com (http://www.aranasoft.com/)). He has been developing on the web for 15 years, since he abandoned VB3 for JavaScript because he didn’t have to wait for a compile. With a career focus on end-user experience, he is a strong advocate of practices and processes that improve quality through code, ranging from automated testing, continuous integration, and performance analysis, to designing applications from the user’s perspective. Jay is also an active speaker and leader in the developer community, serving as President of Ann Arbor .NET Developers and is co-founder for the Lansing and the Indianapolis Give Camp.
Originally from Rochester, New York, he and his wife, Amy, have lived in Michigan since 2003. They like Michigan, but still consider themselves tourists, and probably always will.

Grok Talk Topic Branching and Merging Basics

Abstract Branching and Merging are fundamental operations for source and configuration management systems. Often we don’t choose the correct strategy for our environment and release strategy. In “Branching and Merging Basics”, we’ll talk about a few basic branching and merging approaches that introduce proper isolation, while not impeding the integration of multiple concurrent development projects or teams.

Speaker Shawn Wallace in an Architect with Centric Consulting in Columbus, Ohio. Working primarily with Microsoft tools and tech, he has been building software for nearly 20 years for all kinds of clients and even owned a software company for 9 years. Shawn is a former US Marine Infantryman and enjoys all things tech, learning about new shiny things, building things, shooting sports and coaching his son in football. He resides in Grove City, Ohio with his family.

Code and CONDG The conference room behind the receptionist desk will be open and available for members who would like to spend their time at CONDG pair coding with other attendees. This will be a self-organizing session among the attendees; feel free to use the comments section to make arraignments to meet up and discuss things to work on before hand. Or, just show up and code! Whatever you feel comfortable with. This is YOUR time.

Please be advised that Internet access will not be available.

Pizza/Geek Dinner Pizza will be provided as a snack during the meeting. A Geek Dinner will be held immediately after the meeting at Claddagh Irish Pub at 8745 Sancus Blvd., Columbus OH (http://www.bing.com/local/details.aspx?lid=YN671x11725012&qt=yp&what=claddagh&where=Columbus,+Ohio&s_cid=ansPhBkYp02&mkt=en-us&q=claddagh&FORM=LARE)

When Thursday, 3/24/2011, 6:00 - ??

Where Microsoft Office - Columbus (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=8800+Lyra+Dr.+Columbus,+OH+43240&om=1)