XP Manchester 104 – Evolving to a new domain
This month we have a practical session on evolving code towards a new domain model.
Bring along a laptop. Doors open at 6.30pm to start at 7pm.
Tickets available here.
xpman 103 – The Rust Language and how I learnt to stop worrying and write fewer tests
The Rust Language has been increasing in popularity over the last few years. Backed by Mozilla to develop Firefox, used by big names like Dropbox and Cloudflare, and winner of “Most Loved Programming Language” 3 years in a row on the StackOverflow Developer Survey. It’s has a strict type system, inspired by ML style languages, and a unique ownership model enforced by the Borrow Checker. When I first started programming in Rust, I was writing the same kind of tests I’d previously written in languages like C#, and javascript, but it didn’t feel right. A lot of my tests felt pointless, sometimes my initial red test would pass first time it ran, often I was just testing that the compiler was behaving correctly.
In this talk we’ll look at some of the features of Rust that allow us to write code with fewer bugs, without writing more tests.
This is mainly a talk but there will be plenty of code, and people are welcome to bring laptops if they want to try some things out during the talk.
Doors open at 6.30 to start at 7.
Tickets available here.
#xpman 102 – Christmas Kata
#xpman 101 – Why is that taking so long? A Systems Thinking look at Organising an Organisation to Work
This month we’ll be thinking about organisation problems and team (failures in) co-operation, through the lens of Systems Thinking.
During the session we will simulate working as separate teams in an organisation, exploring how common team anti patterns may manifest. The practical will facilitate a discussion, and there will be a small overview of some of the Systems Thinking concepts at work in the simulation.
This is an introductory level session, No Systems Thinking knowledge is necessary.
For the practical portion of the evening all you will need is a smart phone (or laptop) and a Twitter account.
As normal, we will be meeting at 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start.
Grab a free ticket if you’re coming
#xpman 100 – Monthly Meetup
We made it! 100 sessions of XPManchester, 100 months of last minute organisation par excellence.
Taking the averages per session, 100 monthly meetups roughly translates to…
- 50 announcements made the week before
- 50 announcements made the week of (like this one)
- 200 uses of the word ‘Connascence’ by Kevin
- 500 pints of post meetup cider drunk by Mark
- 12 hours arguing whether you should write a test or not
- 48 consecutive hours arguing about ‘the right way’ to write a test
- 10 hours convincing people to use Cucumber
- 30 hours convincing people not to use Cucumber
- 300 unique anecdotes of how scrum sucks
- 10,000 lines of kata code written by you lot
Join us this month this month for a look back at our lifetime as a user group, a celebratory drink or two to mark the occasion, a light-hearted kata exercise and hopefully a good catch up with some old faces.
We’re at Plant NOMA, from 6:30 for a 7:00 Start.
Grab a ticket
#xpman 99 – A Distributed Kata
This month we’ll be working in small gorups on a distributed kata where the application is split into multiple processes. Groups will be required to coordinate to solve the problem and think about how this affects their approach to developing a solution.
Bring along a laptop. Doors open at half 6 and we’ll get started at 7.
Tickets available here.
#xpman98 – Wardely Mapping by @MrsDHW
This month’s session is on Wardley Mapping, an incredibly useful tool and will be presented by Danielle Haugedal-Wilson from the co-op.
Wardley Mapping is a tool to enable you to understand your business landscape and the context it operates in.
Wardley Mapping helps you answer questions like ‘should I buy or build this?’ ‘How should we organise ourselves’? and ‘What is really duplicated?’
This session will provide an introduction to the technique and then have a practical exercise to practise.
We are hosted by Madlab at Plant NOMA
9th Auguest 2018, 6:30 for a 7pm start.
