April 13th, 2010

SnapCamp2 – Progress Update!

[Post by the awesome Fiona Schlachter.]

We had so much fun last night that we didn’t have time to post about our progress.  The team has been working hard on writing tests in Scala/Lift to build up their knowledge base while they contribute to the All for Good platform migration.  There is some investment required to do this, but that is what camp is all about, right?  You get some scratches, bumps, and maybe even a rash, but it is worth it for the experience.

This is our last day, so the team is hunkering down for 3-4 sprints to get the goal of live data by the end of the weekend.  How do I know?  Well, I came down with a nasty bug and could not attend in person but have been able to check in via video for the kickoffs and sprint updates.  Gotta love the technology! I am sure that it would be better in person, but this is the next best thing and the bonus to all is my germs are with me in Colorado.

Way to go, Campers!

- Fiona Schlachter

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April 13th, 2010

SnapCamp2 (SF) Morning Kickoff & Roll Call

[Post by Lloyd Nimetz  --  Welcome, Lloyd!]

We’re all at the Saturday morning kickoff of SnapCampSF. There was the requisite coffee and bagels, intros for new people like me, and then Dave, Rich and Adam set the foundation for a productive weekend. The table is full of rockstar coders and other committed do-gooders photographed below.  
We started with some [...]

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April 13th, 2010

SnapCamp2 Sprint #1 Update

After our opening and a big Scala/Lift tutorial by David Pollak, folks split off into function-based teams. Although the pre-event plan was to do 3-hour sprints, this is the first check-in for the day.
Here, Fiona is running the check-in, holding court as the iChat-enabled talking head.

The basic 411? We’ve spent a bunch of [...]

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April 13th, 2010

Chipotle Knows How to Do Customer Service

So… I show up at the local Chipotle with two pages of scribbled burrito orders from the SnapCamp crew.

Not only did they manage to get ALL of the orders exactly right (there’s a coding metaphor in there somewhere…), they went above and beyond for our crew of volunteers. They made sure we had names written on each [...]

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April 13th, 2010

Have you seen this developer?

Caffeine is Developer “Go Juice.”
Here, Mark Chance helps round up the coffee that will fuel this morning’s SnapCamp2 introduction and first coding session.

One interesting tidbit: this Starbucks location is just down the street from the Moscone Center, where Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. As part of that intro, he went to the Google [...]

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