Weekly coffee - Third bean

Today morning, being the last workday of the week, we met again in a Nero at Westminster Starbucks at Embankment to talk about interesting things of the Java and IT world.

Weekly gadget

• Photo warp - to create funny pictures
• London Live Bus Tracker - the best bus application for Android so far. Not as good as the one I used on iPhone but the main functionality is in place, so it's a good start. Horrible UI. :)
• Goodreads (Android) - to share your readings and your opinion about them. What I love about it the most is the social aspects of the app - you can update and share your reading status (eg. on which page you are). It's not only very useful for your FB Timeline but also an instant conversation generator. :)

 

 Weekly chat

• Google announced a new augmented reality device
• The future of the mobile world
• Galaxy Note
• WP7
• Mobile Market Share

Weekly topic

• Spring AOP
• Spring MVC
• Spring MVC vs. Servlet/JSP (pros and cons)
• Spring MVS vs. Guice + Servlet/JSP (pros and cons) I'll try to write an article about this on the next week.
• Scrum basics
• Scrum in practice
• Backlog/Task board/Story card in the real world

Project

We made some decision and agreed our first coding session will be kept on the long eastern weekend. Now I'm publishing only a few keywords and you will be able to read about the details in the Code Steam posts.

• Programming language: Scala / Play
• TDD (if we can with this new language)
• Scrum (Requirements, Backlogs)

Weekly weakness

The information provided by TFL is **** not too useful. Today morning both information sources, the electronic board on the station and TFL api gave me wrong information about the tube status and the two sources showed completely different destinations and arriving times. :(

Next meeting

13th April 2012
Agenda