At 08:56 AM 8/2/2007, you wrote:
>I may have to pick up this one, anybody else find this interesting?
>
><http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/01/149236>http://books.slashdot\
.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/01/149236

i saw that and read the intro. was not sucked in.

just re-read the intro. sounds better.

but i have my head in the java generics book, the new ant book, and
our new book for this group: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131495054

thanks


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fyi: they chose the prefactoring book


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>The winner is Prefactoring by Ken Pugh.
>
>We may consider doing Test Driven Development and Pragmatic Project
>Automation as books to follow Prefactoring.  We can discuss at the
>next meeting.
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>Here are the voting results.
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>3   - Extreme Programming Refactored by Matt Stephones and Doug Resenberg
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>Java Apps by Mike Clark
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At 09:19 PM 7/8/2007, you wrote:
>At 03:15 PM 7/7/2007, Ray Tayek wrote:
>...
>I suppose we should start making a formal decision on the next
>book.  I'm fine with Meszaros' "xUnit Test Patterns" but want to
>hear if anyone else has any other suggestions.  ...

i have a bunch of other books that i will bring.

see you tomorrow.

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At 09:19 PM 7/8/2007, you wrote:
>At 03:15 PM 7/7/2007, Ray Tayek wrote:
> >hi, are we having a meeting?
>
>Yes - we're wrapping up the Code Reading book at this meeting.

ok

>I suppose we should start making a formal decision on the next
>book.  I'm fine with Meszaros' "xUnit Test Patterns" but want to
>hear if anyone else has any other suggestions.  ...

i have a few others that i will bring.

thanks

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At 03:15 PM 7/7/2007, Ray Tayek wrote:
>hi, are we having a meeting?

Yes - we're wrapping up the Code Reading book at this meeting.

I suppose we should start making a formal decision on the next
book.  I'm fine with Meszaros' "xUnit Test Patterns" but want to
hear if anyone else has any other suggestions.  If we do decide
to cover "xUnit Test Patterns" we'll probably tackle parts 1 & 2
in depth, and then skim part 3.

-paul

hi, are we having a meeting?

thanks

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At 12:54 PM 6/18/2007, you wrote:
>...
>"Last week I got the newest book in my signature series: xUnit Test
>Patterns by Gerard Meszaros.

i just got mu copy. looks like a real winner.

when is the next meeting?

thanks

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We're still a few meetings away from jumping to a new book but don't have one
lined up as yet. I think this title was floated earlier but Martin Fowler just
had an entry on his blog:

"Last week I got the newest book in my signature series: xUnit Test Patterns by
Gerard Meszaros. I've been working with Gerard with it on and off for a couple
of years, so I'm fairly familiar with its contents, but somehow seeing the
physical copy gave me quite a shock. Somehow it hadn't dawned on me how big the
book was - 883 pages, easily the biggest book in my series.

On the whole I'm not keen on big books, I was very proud of keeping UML
Distilled so small. A book this big scares me, how will I ever get time to read
it?

But xUnit Test Patters isn't as scary as it looks, because it's actually two
books in one set of covers. In this it follows a style I also used in P of EAA.
The first book is a narrative book, designed to be read "cover to cover". The
narrative book is something small enough to be digestible, in xUnit Test
Patterns it's 181 pages, 106 in P of EAA. The second book is reference material,
which is designed not be be read cover to cover (although some people do) but
instead to be dipped into when needed. The idea is that you read the narrative
book to get a good understanding of the field, then put it on your shelf so it's
handy to grab when you need to delve into the reference section."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131495054

Any interest in covering the first part of this one in detail and then skimming
the reference material portion?

-paul

>Subject: Shopzilla's 2nd agile reception / Slides

i have the slides, but can not post here due to a 552, so let me know
if you want them.

thanks

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At 04:33 PM 6/8/2007, you wrote:

>This may be of interest ...
>
>xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code

i just ordered this, as well as: Implementation Patterns  by kent
beck, the second edition of allistar cockburns book, and Implementing
Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash by the poppendiecks .
i should have them by the next meeting, so we can discuss them..

i received this one: Pro .NET 2.0 Extreme Programming and it looks ok
if you have to use the .not stuff.

thanks


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This may be of interest for the study group, given that unit
testing patterns has come up on the list before...

xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code
by Gerard Meszaros
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (May 21, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0131495054
ISBN-13: 978-0131495050


Paul
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At 09:54 AM 6/6/2007, you wrote:
>Can you share Paul's suggestion for those that didn't make it last night?

sure

>Or is there too much context to communicate to those that weren't there?
>Arg, the price of absence...

maybe, but let me try.

problem: write a nice slide show/picture collection viewer/mangler
with the ability to add attributes to pictures (i.e. crop, zoom,
wife, kids, favorite, reject, etc.).

seems like there are at least two (2) basic types:

          1) just the image files in this here directory in their
normal sort order.
          2) an arbitrary ordered list of absolute path names.
          3) maybe something like all the favorite wife pictures or
combinations/filters  of other stuff.

this was my n'th try at this, so i had: a slide show  interface, and
abstract base class that implemented the interface and extended
observable with most of the work being done in the abc, two small
concrete guys that were basically FromADirctectory and
NotFromADirectory, and a factory

testing involved hitting the file system like file.exists() and
filndilesInThisDirThatLookLikeImages().  and since i had a hierarchy
of test classes to test the above, i was hitting the file system in
an @BeforeClass in *all* of these.

paul said something like: abstract the file system you dummy! (he
didn't say dummy, but maybe he should have).

turned out that adding a boolean isMock to the abc's ctor, adding a
extra ctor to the concretes for this, and guarding a few of the
if(!file.exists()) thow's with !isMock was easy and looks fairly
clean. so i will only have to rattle the disk in a very few cases.

thanks






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>Subject: [ocpatterns] testing stuff that touches the file system
>
>paul, your suggestion tonight was very helpful. caused me to add a
>boolean isMock to the ABC which extends observer and implements the
>slide show interface. the ABC does most of the work in most cases.
>moved some stuff that did i/o to the factory.
>
>this will let me test at light speed.
>
>thanks for the clue
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Can you share Paul's suggestion for those that didn't make it last night?
Or is there too much context to communicate to those that weren't there?
Arg, the price of absence...


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Behalf Of Ray Tayek
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 1:27 AM
To: ocpatterns@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ocpatterns] testing stuff that touches the file system

paul, your suggestion tonight was very helpful. caused me to add a
boolean isMock to the ABC which extends observer and implements the
slide show interface. the ABC does most of the work in most cases.
moved some stuff that did i/o to the factory.

this will let me test at light speed.

thanks for the clue

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some interesting new books here. this one looks like it would be easy
and fun: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfobjects/



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paul, your suggestion tonight was very helpful. caused me to add a
boolean isMock to the ABC which extends observer and implements the
slide show interface. the ABC does most of the work in most cases.
moved some stuff that did i/o to the factory.

this will let me test at light speed.

thanks for the clue

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fyi:

>Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:42:56 -0700
>Subject: [svp] Next Tuesday - Test Driven Development in C++ (1) - C++ (III)
>Reply-To: siliconvalleypatterns@yahoogroups.com
>
>__________________________________________________________
>Core - Silicon Valley Patterns Group
>__________________________________________________________
>Date: Tuesday June 5, 2007
>Time: 7:00 pm
>Site: Hobee's Restaurant
>Topic: Test Driven Development in C++ (1) - C++ (III)
>__________________________________________________________
>If you have a laptop, please bring it to the meeting,
>
>At the last meeting, we decided that another C++ roundtable meeting
>will be valuable, but that we were itching to get our hands dirty
>first. Two universal areas of interest were template
>meta-programming and Test Driven Development in C++. This week,
>we'll have a look at TDD in C++.
>
>Participants in this track represent the full spectrum of experience
>in both C++ and TDD (as well as the combination) with some who have
>worked with and taught both of these, and others who are new to C++
>and/or TDD.  We'll take the necessary steps to bring newcomers up to
>speed, including help with test harness installation and the basics of TDD.
>
>We'll tackle this topic with a combination of hands-on and
>discussion. We haven't fixed a schedule, but I wouldn't be surprised
>if we held more than one meeting on TDD.
>
>- Russ
>
>__________________________________________________________
>To Prepare For This Meeting
>
>If you have a laptop, please bring it to the meeting. Try to install
>a C++ environment (Most participants already have one
>installed).  If you have a favorite test harness, please prepare
>that as well.  As another option, Industrial Logic has been
>developing a C++ test harness called CppTestKit. It isn't yet open
>sourced, but I have the ok to distribute it at the meeting.
>
>If you want to see how the Eclipse CDT has has come along, there are
>release candidates available for the next version of Eclipse and the
>next generation of CDT. CDT has been dramatically revised. Don't
>expect all the slick bells and whistles of the Eclipse JDT, but the
>new CDT (4.0) is enough improved that it may be a reasonable choice
>for production work.  You'll need a recent milestone or candidate
>release of the Eclipse platform (at least M6, but you might as well
>use the latest, which as I write this is 3.3RC2)
>
><http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/>http://download.eclipse.org/ecl\
ipse/downloads/
>
>To install the CDT in Eclipse:
>
>Help > Software Updates > Find and Install > Search for new features
>to install > (check) Europa Discovery Sight > Finish
>Choose an update site, expand the options, and select just the CDT.
>
>
>If you're on Windows and need C++ tools, you also have the option of
>Microsoft's free Express Edition:
>
><http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/>http://msdn.microsoft.com/v\
studio/express/visualc/
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>2006
>   Language Buffet (XV) - Prototype-based Inheritance
>   Focus on JavaScript, including implementation review of Rhino
>
>2005
>   Machine Learning III [Game Trees and Zero-Sum Games]
>   Study Material by Andrew Moore
>
>   - Game Tree Search Algorithms, including Alpha-Beta Search
>   - Zero-Sum Game Theory
>
>   MIT OpenCourseWare - Artificial Intelligence
>   Constraint Satisfaction Problems and Games
>   by T. Lozano-Perez and L. Kaelbling.
>
>2004
>   Embrace Change, 2nd Ed. (II)
>   Pre-publication draft review
>   by Kent Beck
>
>2003
>   Enterprise Integration Patterns (VI)
>   Pre-publication review
>   by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf
>
>2002
>   - Planning for future tracks
>
>   - More Patterns Poker
>     (A study in using fundamental patterns in effective combinations)
>
>2001
>   User Interface Design
>   by Larry Constantine
>
>2000
>   XML Fundamentals
>   by various authors
>
>1999
>   Mapping Objects to Tables: A Pattern Language
>   by Wolfgang Keller
>__________________________________________________________
>
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i just bought the new ant book (covers 1.7) and also:
http://www.amazon.com/NET-Extreme-Programming-Experts-Voice/dp/1590594800/ref=sr\
_1_3/105-1256549-8571647?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180581035&sr=8-3.
is anyone interested in going through one of these? or perhaps some
groovy or grails?

thanks

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eric gamma on the development of eclipse:
http://www.bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/display/PARLEYS/Java%20in%20the%20Trenches

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fyi:

>Subject: invitation to shopzilla's 2nd agile reception - with
>special guest Jean Tabaka
>Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:12:09 -0700
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>From: "Christophe Louvion" <christophe@...>
>To: "Christophe Louvion" <christophe@...>
>
>Since you attended the first agile event at shopzilla, I wanted to
>extend you with a direct invitation to our second event.
>I hope to see you there.
>
>Best
>
>Christophe
>
>=
>Invitation to shopzilla's 2nd agile reception - with special guest Jean Tabaka
>
>Our first agile reception 2 months ago was a great success: over 60
>people from local companies, food/drinks and great face-to-face time
>with Ron Jeffries.
>Shopzilla is now inviting you to its second agile event, on
>Wednesday June 6th, in Los Angeles, with special guest
><http://www.awprofessional.com/authors/bio.asp?a=e29a76f5-3d0b-46eb-a622-2b3a59\
6aa7f1&rl=1>Jean
>Tabaka .
>
>Jean will do a presentation around her work on
><http://www.amazon.com/Collaboration-Explained-Facilitation-Software-Developmen\
t/dp/0321268776>collaboration
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>
>So if you are doing scrum/agile, are interested in improving
>collaboration in your team, want to meet with cool people in LA or
>just know more about agile, then this event is for you.
>We'll provide food/drinks. All free.
>
>Please RSVP (see below)
>
>Event: Shopzilla agile reception #2
>When: Wednesday June 6th, 5pm-7pm
>Where:  Shopzilla, 12200 W Olympic blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90064
>Contact: christophe@...
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>Best,
>
>Christophe Louvion
>Shopzilla.com
>Vice President Engineering/Process Innovation
>
>About <http://www.shopzilla.com>Shopzilla
>With an index of over 30 million products from more than 75,000
>stores, gathered, organized and presented using all proprietary
>leading-edge technology, Shopzilla provides consumers the best way
>to find virtually anything for sale, anywhere, and at the best
>price. In addition to our flagship site (http://www.shopzilla.com),
>Shopzilla also powers shopping search for many of the Web's largest
>consumer sites including AOL, Lycos, Time Warner's RoadRunner, and many others.
>At Shopzilla, our goal is to build the greatest shopping service
>ever conceived by mankind. To that end, we strive very hard to hire
>the smartest people. We're an environment where great ideas shape
>our vision and true passion drives us to the best solutions to the
>most challenging problems at the intersection of shopping and search.
>Shopzilla offers great benefits including medical, dental and vision
>plans, life insurance, 401(k) plan, flexible spending account,
>generous vacation benefits -- and we even provide FREE catered lunch
>every single day!

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/siliconvalleypatterns/message/3145

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Sorry guys, had something come up at the last moment
and I can't make it tonight.  We'll meet again on
June 12th.

-paul

>SoCal SPIN May 5 Meeting Rescheduled to the following:
>
>
>New Date: Friday, May 11!!!
>
>Same Topic:  Software Testing Methodologies,
>Approaches and Challenges:  Requirements Based Testing
>vs. Risk Based
>
>Same Location: Building E2, Northrop Grumman, Redondo
>Beach, CA
>
>Same Speakers:  Prof. Hadar Ziv and William Higgins
>
>Same Time: 9AM to Noon
>
>
>
>Please see the web site called out below for details
>
>
>--- Shirley Tseng <stseng1@...> wrote:
>
> > SoCal SPIN Fri, May 4, Software Testing
> > Methodologies,
> >
> > Approaches and Challenges:  Requirements Based
> > Testing
> >
> > vs. Risk Based Testing
> >
> > Southern California SPIN Meeting
> > Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN)
> >
> > DATE: Friday, May 4, 2007
> > TIME: 9 A.M. - 12:00 noon
> >
> > TOPIC:  Software Testing Methodologies, Approaches
> > and
> >
> > Challenges:  Requirements Based Testing vs. Risk
> > Based
> >
> > Testing
> > 1.  "Requirements-based Testing"
> >     Professor Hadar Ziv, UC Irvine
> > 2.  "Risk-Based Testing" - The Software Development
> >     "Witch Hunt"
> >     Bill Higgins, Certified Quality Auditory (CQA),
> > Southern California Edison at San Onofre Nuclear
> > Generating Station
> >
> >
> > LOCATION:  Northrop Grumman, Redondo Beach
> > (see "LOCATION" and "DIRECTIONS" below)
> >
> > ADMISSION: Free
> >
> > RESERVATIONS:  No reservations are needed.
> >
> > For the most current information see the SPIN web
> > site:
> > http://www.uces.csulb.edu/spin/events.htm
> >
> > ABSTRACTS
> >
> > "Requirements-based Testing"
> >
> > One stubborn difficulty in software development is
> > specifying what stakeholders really want, in a way
> > that
> > is clear and natural enough for humans yet
> > structured
> > enough for automated analysis.  A second, related
> > problem is confirming that the resulting system
> > actually meets original goals and requirements, in a
> >
> > way that increases stakeholder trust and confidence
> > in
> >
> > the system.  In this talk we present several
> > research
> > methods in addressing these two challenges,
> > including
> > using goals and scenarios for requirements
> > specification and requirements-based testing against
> >
> > those specifications.  We discuss preliminary
> > results
> > of applying these methods to several practical
> > examples.
> >
> > "Risk-Based Testing"
> >
> > Twenty years ago, no one would have said you cannot
> > run
> > a nuclear electrical generation plant without a
> > personal computer.  Today, no one even asks the
> > question.  The question in nuclear now is: "Now that
> >
> > software is embedded in our processes, how do we
> > make
> > sure we are continuing to operate safely?"   The
> > standard Software Development Life Cycle processes
> > have
> > pushed their way into the engineering processes and
> > they are here to stay.  Concerns about defects in
> > the
> > production environment are causing a renewed focus
> > on
> > what is being termed "Risk-Based Testing," proposing
> >
> > the age-old mistaken notion that you can "test"
> > quality
> > into software.  Mr. Higgins will talk about his role
> > in
> > guiding the software practices at San Onofre Nuclear
> >
> > Generating Station (SONGS) away from the testing to
> > a
> > better comprehensive engagement in Risk-Based
> > Requirements Management.
> >
> > Your Presenters:
> > Hadar Ziv teaches at the School of Information and
> > Computer Sciences (ICS) at UC Irvine, and has 20+
> > years
> > of experience in academia and industry.  He has
> > worked
> >
> > as consultant and change agent for several
> > organizations wishing to upgrade their software
> > development to include use cases, object-oriented
> > analysis and design with UML, and corresponding test
> >
> > strategies.  To this end, Hadar has provided
> > consulting, training and mentoring services to
> > companies such as Capital Group Companies, Fidelity
> > National Title, Logicon (now Northrop Grumman),
> > Experian, Cendant, and currently St. Jude Medical
> > (NYSE: SJM).  Several of the projects have been
> > completed and deployed successfully; see for example
> >
> > the TitlePoint demonstration at:
> > http://www.propertyinsight.biz/titlepoint.html
> >
> > Professor Ziv teaches an undergraduate
> > software-project
> > course for ICS seniors, where students employ many
> > of
> > the same tools and methods to develop working
> > software
> >
> > systems for real customers. He was awarded UC
> > Irvine's
> >
> > Excellence in Teaching award in 2003.  Hadar has
> > also
> > published research articles in international
> > conferences and journals, most recently in ROSATEA
> > 2006, ASE 2006, and the October 2006 issue of the
> > Journal of Systems and Software (JSS).
> >
> >
> > Bill Higgins is a Certified Quality Auditory (CQA)
> > working for Southern California Edison at San Onofre
> >
> > Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in the
> > Information
> > Technology division.  Bill's background in nuclear
> > at
> > SONGS for the last 24 years ranges from cost
> > engineering work developing cost/benefit analysis
> > for
> > all nuclear plant capital expenditures in excess of
> > $50,000, to database administrator (DBA) for the
> > site's
> > search engine system and the document management
> > system, to Software Quality Assurance auditor of the
> >
> > first in-the-USA Level 2 evaluated CMM process for
> > the
> >
> > nuclear IT department.  Bill is the chairman of the
> > nuclear industry's national SQA Standing Committee
> > (SQA-SC).  The SQA-SC is a subcommittee under the
> > Nuclear IT Strategic Leadership (NITSL) chartered
> > under
> > the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO).
> > The
> >
> > SQA-SC is the IT Community of Practice (COP) which
> > published the first SQA policy and the first SQA
> > implementing procedure used as standards for
> > guidance
> > for IT under the nuclear regulatory compliance
> > environment.  Bill is also the chairman of the
> > Nuclear
> >
> > SQA Committee at SONGS, which as a cross-divisional
> > team created the first over-arching SQA policy
> > (2005)
> > and the first single SQA procedure (2006) followed
> > by
> > all SONGS divisions in history of the nuclear plant.
> >
> >
> > If you are a seasoned IT professional, Bill will be
> > freely sharing with you many items that are not
> > really
> >
> > "new" to you, some items that are recycled, some
> > that
> > are new, but his comments, text, and handouts are
> > copyrighted under his company, Opinions Expressed
> > Not
> > Necessarily Those of Management (c).
> >
> > LOGISTICS
> >
> > LOCATION:  Northrop Grumman E2 Presentation Center
> > (in tall building off of Entrance 2), Redondo
> > Beach, CA (formerly TRW)
> >      2299 Marine Ave.,
> >
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We meet this Tuesday to continue our study of Diomidis Spinellis'
"Code Reading, The Open Source Perspective". The reading
assignment for this meeting is Chapters 6, Tackling Large
Projects and 7, Coding Standards and Conventions.

Join us at our meeting location in the lounge at the Hilton Suites in
Orange, 400 N. State College Blvd. This location is near the 5/57/22
interchange and just north of the Block At Orange.

Let's face it, <http://www.junit.org/>JUnit is the most widely used
(unit-) testing tool in the Java world. There are other powerful test
frameworks out there, such as <http://testng.org/>TestNG (which is
very comprehensive), but they've never enjoyed the broad acceptance
JUnit has. With version 4, Kent Beck and Erich Gamma introduced the
first significant API changes in the last few years. When the first
release candidate was available back in 2005, you could hardly use it
in a productive working environment due to the lack of tool support
at that time. By now, most build tools and IDEs come with support for
JUnit 4, so it's about time to give it a try. This article describes
what's different compared to JUnit 3.8.x. ...

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/12/07/junit-reloaded.html

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We now meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, from 7 to 9 pm.

We meet this Tuesday to continue our study of Diomidis Spinellis'
"Code Reading, The Open Source Perspective". The reading assignment
for this meeting is Chapters 5, Advanced Control Flow, and 6,
Tackling Large Projects.

Join us at our meeting location in the lounge at the Hilton Suites in
Orange, 400 N. State College Blvd. This location is near the 5/57/22
interchange and just north of the Block At Orange.