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Death of a user group, or “How to give up”

Bahamas Software Development User Group, we hardly knew ye. It’s been just over a year since I started the short-lived group but alas! It is no more. In this post-mortem, we discuss What Went Wrong by providing smug pieces of advice fueled by 20/20 hindsight. Know what you’re getting into As much as...

Published Wed, Sep 9 2009 9:52 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Community, Bahanet
TeamCity.CodeBetter Project List

The question was asked: Dammit, why can’t you do anything right? But that’s not a question worth answering at the moment, instead I’ll focus on a different question that was asked: Some of the projects on the TeamCity/CodeBetter offspring (or, to be more inline with its parents’ love of Pascal casing...

Published Wed, May 13 2009 11:29 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Continuous Integration, Community, TeamCity
TeamCity @ CodeBetter

Have to admit, I wasn’t expecting the popularity of the CodeBetter TeamCity project. The requests have slowed in recent weeks but at last count, there were 35 projects with 51 build configurations. Along the way, I’ve had crash courses in TeamCity build agents, Maven, Git, Rake, Silverlight and have...

Published Wed, Apr 29 2009 10:37 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Continuous Integration, Community
Change the world. Start at home

As the year lurches to a close, I'ma gettin' all reflective and stuff. The last two years have been pretty key for me career-wise. Looking back, you'd almost think I had a plan. In general terms, 2007 was learning hillbilly as I put some effort into a learning regime. More importantly, I...

Published Mon, Dec 29 2008 7:40 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Sundry, Community
Pimpin' DevTeach

Been putting this post off until I could give it the attention it deserves but the merits keep piling up on their own. DevTeach starts in about 3 weeks (yikes, is that all?) and there has been a flurry of activity around it. There is still time to sign up and if you are waffling, here is some information...

Published Sun, Nov 9 2008 12:37 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Community
DevTeach presentations explained

I'm preparing my presentations for DevTeach and have come to realize that there is a price to pay for creativity. Here are the abstracts for three of my presentations. Guerrilla Refactoring Greetings, comrades. Welcome to the resistance! Our quarry today is a shamefully designed application that...

Published Mon, Oct 20 2008 9:04 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Refactoring, TDD, Brownfield, ASP.NET MVC, Presenting, Community
Protectionism via self-improvement

A couple of things have got protectionism on my mind. It comes up surprisingly often because the Bahamas seems to be, by and large, a protectionism nation. That is based solely on personal observation, not on any sort of fact-checking. So I'll assume everyone out there knows the difference between...

Published Sat, Oct 18 2008 1:35 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Career, Community, Bahanet
Do the right thing. Assuming you know what that is.

I have kind of a love/hate thing going for Roy Osherove's blog . The "hate" part comes because he always challenges my perspective when I least expect it. Some of his posts seem like they are baiting people and it is easy to discount them as biased based on his position with TypeMock ....

Published Sat, Sep 20 2008 6:31 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Community, Conscientious Coding
Feeling out Bahamas Code Camp possibilities

What's the first thing you think of when I say "Bahamas in February"? If you said "code", then you're my target audience for this post. First, a recap of the BahaNET meeting last Thursday night. We finally hit double-digit attendance for the first time which is very exciting...

Published Mon, Sep 15 2008 2:40 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Community, Bahanet
BahaNET meeting this Thursday, September 11

Quick note to announce that Hurricanes Hanna and Ike haven't dampened our resolve! BahaNET is meeting this Thursday, hopefully at the usual place but I haven't quite verified yet. Discussion topic will be source control. Specifically, how to set it up, maintain it, and use it effectively. It's...

Published Mon, Sep 8 2008 8:29 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Community, Bahanet
Alt.net Canada Open Spaces is now taking requests

Well, Canada turns 141 years old today and as we all know, 141 is the Conference anniversary. So in keeping with that, registration is now open for the alt.net Canada Open Spaces Extravaganza . Get your requests in early because only the first 100 will be allowed in and at the time of writing, over 10...

Published Tue, Jul 1 2008 7:22 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Community, alt.net
London alt.net Beers - Recap

Many thanks to Sebastian Lambla for inviting me to the alt.net London beers this past Tuesday evening. It was a fun evening and if you are in the London area, I'd recommend checking out future meetings. This was the second night out and they have plans to run it every month in the second or third...

Published Thu, Jun 19 2008 6:45 AM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Community, alt.net
BahaNET Meeting 2 - We Hardly Knew Ye

Need to be more on the ball with announcing community events that I'm hosting. The Bahamas .NET User Group had its second meeting on May 28 and it was another success. Running a user group is an odd kind of thing. There is more work than you imagined when you had the initial idea and you often get...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 1:50 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Presenting, Community, Bahanet
Florida Tweener weekend

I was invited to speak at the Florida Tweener weekend which is the weekend 'twixt the two TechEd weeks in Orlando. The schedule is up and I had no idea what the scale of this thing would be! Not only is there a full day .NET code camp but also over a dozen other activities. The ones I'm excited...

Published Tue, May 20 2008 9:17 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Brownfield, Presenting, Community
Sparring before DevTeach

'Tis the day before I head out for DevTeach and have already completed my pre-conference ritual with my wife. It's a fun game we play a few times a year called "Why do you do this?" I was just settling in for some quality time with Bear Grylls when she starts the first round off with...

Published Sun, May 11 2008 3:30 PM by Kyle Baley

Filed under: Community

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Death of a user group, or “How to give up”

TeamCity.CodeBetter Project List

TeamCity @ CodeBetter

Change the world. Start at home

Pimpin' DevTeach

DevTeach presentations explained

Protectionism via self-improvement

Do the right thing. Assuming you know what that is.

Feeling out Bahamas Code Camp possibilities

BahaNET meeting this Thursday, September 11

Alt.net Canada Open Spaces is now taking requests

London alt.net Beers - Recap

BahaNET Meeting 2 - We Hardly Knew Ye

Florida Tweener weekend

Sparring before DevTeach