What is the relation between an Investor & Sex ….Came across an interesting presentation from BarCamp London , which unravels this mystery.

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Speaker : Maha,Thoughtworks

It was on pair programming and Test Driven Development(TDD).A live demo was shown using JUnit.

The advantage point of view is that “You are fully comitted towards your job and you dont take personal calls,dont chat etc”

There had many scenarios on which test cases were built:

Scenario 1:
We should be able to put money into the wallet
—>Test cases were generated using this test case.Also,just for checking the functionality , neagtive money was put into the wallet(Damn,Is this possible?)

Scenario 2:
As a wallet owner , you would like to take out money from the wallet
—>Test case was developed for this scenario
—>Now what happens,if you try to take out more money from the wallet than what you have?

Scenario 3:
As a account owner , I would like to draw more money from the account than what I have?
—>This is in contrast with the test case 2 hence revamp of the existing code

Scenario 4:
As an account owner,I should be notified through email when I overdraw my money
—>This means every owner has an account associated with him.
—>Create a new method to notify the owner of the account,through email

Test Driven Development:

1. Written test first
2. Tests should fail and fail fast
3. Tests protect functionality
4. Test encourages fearless refactoring
5. Test First Development(TFD) forces you to design well
6. RDD improves design
7. TDD supports evolutionary design
8. Need driven development

Pair Programming:

1. Ping Pong Programming
2. Brain Storming
3. Ongoing code review
4. Driver thinks tactically and navigator strategically
5. Two people are more pragmatic than one
6. Knowledge sharing between pairs

Speaker : Pradeep B V

Now to create your own youtube

This can be done using FFMPEG player

Important Features:

1. Upload Video/Tages
2. Embed flash video into the container
3. Put into an html file
4. Add a tag-Cloud/search/hot or not features
5. Serve the html/flash container

For more information you can go to blog.go4teams.com

Was just reading some technical stuff along with some blogging(as usual).Suddenly a senior person named “Hari” asked me “whether I work in Thoughtworks and my answer was no.He asked me about my job and stuff like that.

I told him about my work and he was pretty much impressed about it.He asked me “Whether I was there in this field since the beginning”.Since he was not feeling bored,I asked him “Should I tell how I landed up Bangalore and my background”.

I told him about film city and the work that I did there in game shows.Told him about Siddarth Basu and what a great director he is.I also told him about my dreams and how I want to progress in life,my dreams and desires.

I also told him that few years down the line “I want to direct a movie which would be on my life with a slight twist”(This is required if you want to get a reasonable audience).

I told him about my love for Blogging,Software,Building a venture and at the same time,script my life in a movie”

He was pretty impressed and congratulate me “Wishing me all the best for my Career , Venture and also my own movie”

I hope that this way “A Network is created and I get mature audience to my blog as well as my movie( when it comes in the future -:) )

Speaker : Arpit Agarwal, Ittiam

This is introduction to MPEG,WMV,H.264

Why compression:

1. Bandwidth Constraint
2. Space Constraint

Basic Idea:

Human eye models:

1. Low pass filter
2. Brain fills in the sharpness

The best compression method is “H.264″

Lots of discussions happened and it was all general.Hence nothing much updated.

Speaker : Aashish Solanki

YBangalore non-profit site which is started by two engineering students.The parent company is Yulop

Why YBangalore:

1. Concept
2. Implementation
3. Target Audience
4. Ad Free

What is next at YBangalore:

1. Revamp Design
2. Associate Designs and Brands
3. Stay AD Free as long as possible
4. Live Radio BroadCast
5. Web Logs – WiKi podcasting

But the debate was “Can this sustain for a longer period of time” since , it is completely non-profit.

Next Venture : see2get

This will be launched very soon

The idea is “80-90% of the people dont come back to a site is because of a bad GUI”

How important is a user in WEB2.0:

1. Agility and attention
2. Usability and attention
3. Freshness and Quality
4. Ads or Nuisance?

Pillars of Web 2.0:

1. GUI Perspective
2. Functionality Perspective
3. Response Prespective
4. Developer Prespective

Final idea is “Content is the king”

Speaker : Kavita , MingleBox

The young people spend more time on the internet rather than watching 9:00 soaps!!!Minglebox was launched 3 months back.People feel that MingleBox is more safer and Indian as compared to Orkut.

Competitors:

1. Orkut –> Have a large audience but it has a colorless application oriented platform
2. MySpace
3. Hi5
4. Yaari
5. Jhoom
6. Fropper

There is a group on MigleBox called “Bangalore” where people party,go for movies etc.The intented audience is college going guyz(and this is very difficult to answer).The answer is not how different is but “Is there an intented audience?”.

Technology and UI are one of the main focus areas so that “Improvement in small steps would lead to a big improvement over a period of time”.Currently,a 25 member team and looking out for more.Live demo on “Scrambled Scrapping” which enables Private Scrapping.

Speaker : Deven Tolia,Thoughtworks

There was a small demo about a dance where a small mistake happened.Deven tried to co-relate this with work.In case of dance,it is very important that you have a smile on your face.Same is the case with working in a company since,no one likes a person who comes to the office with a dull face.

Also,the other part is that “We should learn from our mistakes”.In case of dance,synchronization is very important.Hence,if is a slight mismatch in the dance than people have to cover it up so that all the dancers are in sync.Same is the case with work since,if one person is not in sync with the team than there would be a delay in the delieverables to the customer.Since “CUSTOMER IS GOD!!!” (or should I say “Treat the customer like God”

Speaker : Srinivas Yelandur

Some new terminologies to me!!!!Still would try to list down something.

Web 2.0 is a broad set of concepts that can be broken down into three anchor points.It is a web oriented architecture.Future is Office 2.0!!!It is same as Web 1.0 but the only difference is that it has a collective intelligence.

Attributes of Web 2.0:

• User Centered – Wkipedia , Delicious , Google Maps , Google
• Open - Open services , Open technology foundation , Open IP , Open business packets
• Simple and Lightweight - Simplicity in design , Lightweight protocols , Lightweight UI technology , Lightweight development process
• Decentralized, Distributed and Participatory : Content is distributed as RSS and Atom.