We’ve been at this little shin-dig for over a year now, we’ve got a few locations going, and plenty of coders looking to sharpen their skills. So…

Time to redo the Code and Coffee website! (This one here. The one with the canned CSS layout and the static first post hacked together in 4 hours running on Blogger.)

My propsal:

1. Use Ruby on Rails (probably 3…why not?)
2. Deploy to Heroku
3. Collaborate on GitHub
4. Back it with MongoDB
5. TDD or die!
6. Yes, TDD or die even on the Javascript

Get the base in place, and then who knows. Interact with twitter, expose an API that a mobile device could access, make us some blog widgets…the possibilities are endless!

What say you?

So, nothing gets a blog updated quicker than being told it’s “out of date.” Truth hurts, though, and it is out of date. Last update was on the heels of Codemash, and though Code and Coffee has happened nearly every week since that last announcement, I’ve been slack to get the website updated. We’ve actually been rolling along pretty well, so I guess I didn’t think much about it.

So, enough about the past, in the spirit of true agile programming: We’ve got a problem, let’s get it fixed rather than dwell on how we got here.

Tomorrow, July 8, we’re going to have Code and Coffee in two locations.

Location 1, the old stand-by at Stauf’s in Grandview. We’ve had a pretty good group of regulars here for a while, so if you’re in the area please drop in, there will be at least five people there coding away at something. (I think I’m going to do a little IronRuby and Cucumber tomorrow, been wanting to get further on that for a while.)

Location 2, Panera Bread on Polaris Pkwy. (The one near the Best Buy.) Jeff Blankenburg, of the above tweet fame, is going to be there working on some Windows Phone 7 stuff. If you want an early peek at what Win Phone 7 will do, go see Jeff. Of course, if you want to write something else and just geek it up with fellow geeks for a while, go see Jeff. Basically, if you want to Code and Coffee and are closer to Polaris than Grandview, go see Jeff.

Hope to see you at Polaris or Grandview tomorrow!

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We’re going to visit Stauf’s in Grandview again, and try out our first coding Kata. A quick question on twitter yielded a few suggestions to find our kata…

• Katacasts – screen casts by Corey Haines showing him doing a few katas himself.
• Code Kata from Prag Dave.
• KataCatalog – passed along by Kevin
• Project Euler – another that Corey listed
• Ruby Quiz – I’ve know about this one for a while, have even tried a couple

If you’re up and around at 7am and in the Grandview area, stop in for a Kata and Coffee session.

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We’ll head back to Stauf’s tomorrow for our session. Now that my new client is downtown, this will be a bit more regular gathering spot than Polaris. (But that shouldn’t stop you Polaris guys from getting together!)

Guessing I’ll keep plugging away at my Rails app. But, always open to other ideas. I’ve still got to get better…er, rather started…with some Javascript testing.

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Thanksgiving put a damper on our regular Thursday edition, so why not get out of the house for a bit on Saturday for some coding? Off to Stauf’s in Grandview again.

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First Code and Coffee blog entry in a while, we’ve been handling most of the communication through twitter.

We’ll return to Stauf’s in Grandview for this get together. My plan is to work on a little Rails app or do some qUnit testing. (Or both!) If you have something else in mind, bring your laptop and your ideas.

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Code and coffee takes a trip back to Stauf’s for the Sept 3 edition. So, if you’re in the greater Grandview area, drop on by. Plan is to tackle some more qUnit, and if we get bored with that jump into a little Rails. Mike and Jon have said they’d join in…and now they have to, because it’s on the Internet.

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