Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 3rd and 4th, 2009

Peter Kellner

73rd Street Associates
About Peter
Peter Kellner, an open source developer, Pluralsight Author and part time conference organizer. He currently lives and bikes in the awesome community of Borrego Springs, Ca.
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Speaking Sessions

  • Membership with Profile and High Performance ExtJS JavaScript Interface

    1:00 PM Sunday   Room: 4220
    In this session, we will demonstrate building a super rich JavaScript interface to the standard ASP.NET Membership and Profile services. That is, built into ASP.NET are wonderful providers that allow you to validate and store user credentials typically to a database. It also lets you store other information such as pictures, first and last names, as well as anything else you may want to store. In this session we will build a highly performing, 100% JavaScript UI to maintain hundreds of thousands of users. As part of this solution, techniques for using REST based services to access this information will be presented. Once you see this, it will be hard to ever use web forms again.

  • Team Estimation Game

    1:00 PM Sunday   Room: 1401
    Agile development teams need to be able to provide estimates for User Stories in reasonable amounts of time. Estimation sessions sometimes become lengthy because team members want to delve into the details of each story before they are comfortable enough to "commit" to a numeric estimate.<br/><br/> The Team Estimation Game offers a collaborative way for teams to quickly estimate user stories using relative story complexity. This isn't Planning Poker, but an alternative which can help teams get past a common stumbling block in estimation, namely attaching too much significance to the numbers.<br/><br/> In this highly interactive workshop, attendees self-organize into teams of from 3 to 6 members each. After a brief description of the rules of the Game, each team is given a stack of pre-written story cards that represent the features of a fictitious software product. Their job is to collaboratively estimate all stories in the stack.<br/><br/> After attending this session, participants will be able to use the techniques learned to estimate their own, actual user stories with their own teams.