September 2nd: KC Code Mentors

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  • Centriq

    8700 State Line Rd. Suite 200, Leawood, KS (map)
     

  • Ray will talk about good practices regarding database design.  He will also talk about database normalization.  Then those principles will be put into practice as a small application is described and designed, and the tables underlying the application are built from scratch.  Finally, the supporting stored procedures for all CRUD operations will be coded.



    Ray Harris Mini-Bio:

    Ray has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. He has functioned as a software analyst, developer, project manager and software architect in the transportation arena; mutual fund financial services arena; health provider and insurance arena; mechanical engineering arena; video, voice and data cable provider arena; and most recently, the IT Benchmarking arena. Ray has experience in all areas of software development and architecture including COBOL/DB2 batch data processing, client server data processing and internet web applications in both the Microsoft .NET and Java/J2EE environments. He was the project leader for several conversions on the mutual fund data processing environment of DST Systems, including the Russell Funds (a $2.4 Trillion Investment firm) - creator of the Russell 2000 Index. Ray has experience as the lead java architect on the Suddenlink Inc. (a 1.4 million customer cable company) Customer Selfcare Portal system, and the ITHC Benchmarking system. He was also the technical lead on several other projects: the Wells Dairy Blue Bunny ice cream website, the Burger King restaurant management portal, the HNTB (a $4 Billion Mechanical Enginering firm) Engineering Sales/Marketing/Project management website, the Simon Malls vendor/partner management website, and the QWEST circuit pricing project. Ray graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Mathematical Sciences. Ray received his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.  Currently, Ray is consulting for Balance Point Corp., is a part owner of an IT Benchmarking company, teaches at Penn Valley Community College, and owns his own consulting company.


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    August 27th: AgileKC Kansas City Meeting - Getting People Involved in an Agile Transformation

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    To register for this event and provide an accurate count for the evening's sponsor, please visit www.agilekc.org

     
    Meeting Topic:   A conversation about getting people engaged in an Agile transformation.

     
    Meeting Description:

    Rob Kraft asked about this topic at a recent Agilehood KC event and thought it might be of interest to the group at large.  This month's meeting won't follow the model of a speaker presenting their thoughts or ideas.  Rather it will be about you all, the community, sharing what has and has not worked for your teams.  

     

    Rob has offered to facilitate the discussion and describes his thoughts on the upcoming meeting as follows:

    "I would like to facilitate a discussion of ideas about how to get people engaged in an agile transformation.  I won't be bringing the answers, but I will be bringing questions.  I'd like to do some general brainstorming, and then perhaps focus on a few specific questions like:

    ·         Is culture preventing our transformation?  If so, how can we change it?

    ·         What communication and feedback is right, and what communication and feedback is wrong?

    ·         How can we motivate employees to embrace the agile manifesto?

    ·         I want to lead a self-organizing team but my team won't self-organize, what can I do?

    ·         How can I communicate vision clearly?  What tools, techniques, and processes can we use to do this?

    ·         Our retrospectives are stale with no new suggestions for process changes.  Does that mean we have achieved the perfect process?

    I'm hoping we can all learn from the experiences of each other and leave with some ideas to inject new vigor into our organizations.

     

    I am a software development architect and project manager.  Our team currently uses a Kanban approach and our team fills the board with new tasks every two weeks and we release packaged software every six months.  I have been writing software professionally since 1988 and have strong technical skills that I still use daily.  Our software is developed mostly using the Microsoft stack, with a new front end being developed using AngularJs and SQL Server or Oracle.  We use LeanKit Kanban for progress boards along with a few bug tracking systems."

     

     

    This will be a great way to share and learn insights from the community at large.  If you have questions or something to share please join us on the 27!


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    August 27th: PythonKC Summer Meetup

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  • Think Big Coworking

    1712 Main Street #200, Kansas City, MO (map)
     

  • Thanks to Minted for hosting this meetup.
    Creating WSGI Middleware: WSGI is the standard interface web servers use to speak to Python web applications. Understanding how WSGI works and the lifecycle of a request offers more control over the finer details of how your application responds. A WSGI middleware can sit between any number of Python frameworks and your server to provide a little extra goodness, whether it's logging, special headers, or other application-specific needs.


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    August 22nd: Cowtown Computer Congress - Open Source "big data" on the cheap with Elasticsearch, Graylog and Splunk(free)

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    DeVry University

    11224 Holmes Road, Kansas City, MO (map)

  • CCCKC CLASS: Open Source “big data” on the cheap with Elasticsearch, Graylog and Splunk(free)
    Park out in front of campus and come in through the front doors.
    Keep an eye on MeetUp to see what events will be coming up. We may be having movie nights, build nights, PPPRS team sign ups and building, community out reach events, and more. Don't forget Maker Faire is coming up and we'll start planning for that fun event!
    ***TELL JOEL you saw this on MeetUp...we're trying to convince him MeetUp works!*** ;-) Thanks


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    August 19th: HUG Microsoft Access SIG Meeting

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    HUG Access SIG Meeting 6:30 pm, August 19, 2015, at JCCC, Regnier Center

    Presentation 1:  "Building your Business on LinkedIn"
    Presenter:   Dan Stalp

    Description:    Ever wonder why LinkedIn is only considered a “marketing” tool rather than a “business development” tool?  Wonder no more!  During this interactive session you will discover how to:
       Turn people who want to connect with you into appointments.
       Get more specific about who you want to target on LinkedIn.
       Strategically ask and get referrals from LinkedIn

    Dan is President of Sandler Training, Kansas City – a proven, trademarked selling method. He has more than 25 years of experience in sales, management, and business ownership from the financial services and sales training industries.
    He is co-host of the “Sales & Marketing Answer Men” radio blog program on Thinking Bigger Radio every Thursday morning from 9-9:30 AM
    Dan is blessed to be a mentor with the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program. He is asked to be interviewed on numerous panels and radio programs concerning sales, sales management and leadership.
    He has co-authored two books “The Reunion” (2011) and “Another Reunion” (2013) about pursuing a life of significance rather than success in one’s life.
    Dan is board president of the Catholic Foundation of Northeast Kansas, on the executive board for Gift of Life Foundation, and the advisory board for National Christian Foundation.
    He is married to Lisa since 1991 and they have four children – two daughters and two sons ages 22, 19, 16, and 14. Lisa is a clinical psychologist with the Rehabilitation Institute in Kansas City, Missouri.


    Presentation 2:   “Managing Menus and Shopping Lists for Day Camp Meals”
    Presenter: Susie Gilson

    Description:  Susie will present her day camp shopping list generator.  Every camp unit cooks out, and each unit has 2 meal choices and 4 dessert choices.  How does one manage variable meal choices and get shopping lists generated quickly to buy in bulk and optimize spending? Susie’s method allows each unit to make their own selections and for the shopper to have an aggregated shopping list. At the same time, the kitchen staff has a unit by unit break down of ingredients. Feedback from the kitchen on amounts per person can easily be incorporated for next year.  Recipes can also be entered when the food selections change next year.

    Presenter Bio: Susie Gilson has been a mostly self-taught Access user since 1995. She just recently took classes at JCCC to hone her VBA skills. For the most part, she uses Access in her volunteer work for Girl Scouts, though she’s also happy to fix the databases her husband brings home from work!

    Drawings:
    Microsoft Access 2013 by Lisa Friedrichsen.
    Designed to meet the needs of users from a broad range of experience levels, the Illustrated Series equips your students with training on basic skills using its hallmark 2-page lesson format.  This practical, user-friendly design makes learning accessible for a wide variety of learners at all levels by allowing students to see an entire task in one view.

    Sponsored by: Heritage Computer Consulting & Services, Inc

    One $10 Gift Certificate from Amazon.

    Give-away drawing for HUG members only.  Sponsored by: Heritage Computer Consulting & Services, Inc.

    Upcoming Meetings:
    9/16/15 – RC 353
    10/21/15 – RC 353
    11/18/15 – RC 353
    12/16/15 – RC 353


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    August 26th: KCWebPros - Agile and Lean Development Practices

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    Topic: Agile and Lean Development Practices

    Date/Time: WED, August 26th, 2015 -- 6:30PM to 8:00PM

    Location: The EBS Group, 11320 West 79th St, Lenexa, KS -- West Side of the building. BYOF - Bring Your Own Food.
    Please RSVP via email to John Krzysztow at [email protected] so he can have some idea of a head count.

    Speaker: Kay Harper

    Presentation Description:

    Agile and Lean development practices are increasingly in demand, not only globally but locally. Curious about what is it like to work on an Agile team? Why are Agile/Lean teams, principles and practices getting so much attention these days? What would be different if you took "the plunge" and joined an Agile/Lean team? This session is designed as an interactive session, scripted by you the participants, focused specifically on providing answers to the questions you have

    Kay Harper Bio:

    Kay Harper is a coach, trainer and consultant committed to developing excellence in leadership, teams and partnerships. Her current area of focus is assisting organizations with positive change through various methods including Lean and Agile frameworks and Systems Coaching. Kay also works with the Johnson County Community College to develop and deliver Continuing Education Agile course offerings.

    Prior to launching Kay Harper Consulting LLC, Kay worked for 20 years performing coaching, mentoring, training, project and product management in a variety of industries. Kay started utilizing Agile principles and practices in 2008. She quickly determined that, when wholly implemented, these principles and practices give organizations the competitive advantage needed in the new, Information Age. Additionally, she sensed the critical impact of organizational systems not only on organizational performance but also any respective changes. She values opportunities to teach and coach others to navigate the pitfalls related to systemic, organizational transformation.

    A member of the International Coaching Federation and graduate of Organizational Relationship and Systems Coaching (ORSC). Kay is also a founding member of Agilehood KC and a long-standing member of Agile KC and the KC Project Management Institute chapter. She holds a Project Management Institute certification as an Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) and ICAgile certification as a Certified Agile Team Coach (ICP-TC). She is also a Scaled Agile Framework Certified Consultant (SAFe CSP) and a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrummaster (CSM).


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    August 20th: MeteorJS Kansas City Meeting

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    Thursday, August 20, 2015

    6:30 PM

  • iModules Software, Inc.

    5101 College Blvd, Leawood, KS (map)
  • 6:30 pm - Doors open, mingle.
    6:40 pm - Introduction to Meteor presentation and demo for any one new to Meteor.
    7:00 pm - Creating a Meteor Package
    7:30 pm - Demo's? If you have done something in Meteor no mater how big or small we would love to see it and hear about your experience with it.
    CollectionFS? There was mention from the last meetup but I have never used it. Any one interested in leading a discussion about this?


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