Special Theme Night: “Dev Survival Skills”
If you were thrown onto a deserted coding island with a group of strangers would it go more like “Gilligan’s Island” or “Lord of the Flies”? What skills and knowledge does at least one person on a team need to possess to prevent chaos and pain?

Here are three good places to start:

• a way to coordinate and track effort – such as a Kanban board
• a simple way to read and write data – with a Micro ORM perhaps
• a script on how to do version control without server infrastructure – with Git if given a choice

This lab will be broken into three 50-minute sections. Jon Terry will give a crash course on using a physical kanban board to track “who is working on what”. David Neal will get us set up with two (or three) Micro ORMs that are simple-to-learn and simple-to-use. Finally, we will walk through some typical source control use cases using a memory stick as our central repository (primitive islands don’t have WIFI or source servers).

Don’t be a dufus and skip out– it should be a good one. To follow along, please bring a laptop with Visual Studio.

Special note:
Nashville GiveCamp is this weekend. If you are volunteering, this “dev survival skills” lab will be very handy.