Technical Skills Share Group

(see current meeting's agenda below)

The Technical Skills Share Group meets in the Library's McCarthy Meeting Room every Wednesday from 1:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. The group is led by volunteers who research and lead technical projects. The goals of the group are to help high tech professionals in job transition share their skills and impart knowledge to others. This helps participants and members to be better prepared for technical interviews.

There are various technology subgroups. These help people migrate from one technology area to another; frequently there are people attending multiple subgroup events. We have some young members who are recent college graduates who have never gone through the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) or other product development process so they are learning the techniques that are used in different companies for SW or HW release with a resume project we are currently working on.

The Technical Skills Share group has been meeting since the Spring of 2009. The technology training covered by the group includes: C/C++, VBA, Java, C#, Perl, Computer networking - TCP/IP, MS Access, OOD, UML, DSP, Real Time Operating Systems, Cloud computing, Six Sigma, Source control, subversion etc. Technical presentations are led by participants, as well as by external speakers, who are experts in their area.

Independently, the group is also working on a product development effort that helps members learn, upgrade and sharpen their "product development" skills. All the work is led by the volunteers who research and lead the project on a weekly basis.

Every week, the first session (1:30-3:30 p.m.) includes an open discussion about the product development effort and reports on the progress each week. The second session (4:00-5:45 p.m.) is the technical presentation by a speaker.

As an added benefit the sessions provide networking between high technology professionals.

The group has had remote sessions which allow participants to attend events online remotely from their homes using DIMDIM technology. The group is still working on improving this service, and it is not widely publicized yet.

For more information about the group, please contact: skillsshareATyahooDOTcom

The group activities are free and open to the public.

Technical Skills Share Group Meeting;

Where: Chelmsford Public Library, McCarthy Meeting Room
http://www.chelmsfordlibrary.org/library_info/directions

Wednesday, July 21st Agenda:
1:30 to 3:15 pm, Android Project (Pushpa)

Software development project using JAVA (Android) to create an App for Android capable phones.

· Project Process Flow(Use cases and Screenshots)

· Database Access

Note: The required document to be downloaded is at TSSG Yahoo site under the folder Android_Project > Technical > Android_DB_Development.doc

3:15 to 4:00 pm, Group Networking.

General time where we can discuss recent status and strategy of networking for the technical professional.

4:00 to 5:45 pm: Generic programming and the C++ STL - an Introduction (Nainan Kovoor)

· Motivating concrete examples for generic programming

· Design principles for the STL

· Architecture of the STL - containers, iterators, algorithms

· Common STL coding idioms

· A larger example

· Pragmatics of STL use

· Review of print and online resources for STL users

Prerequisites: Familiarity with the C programming language and some exposure to C++. Knowledge of object-oriented programming is not required.

What is coming up:

July 28th at 4:00 to 5:45pm, Python (David Wallace)

Session V will resume the topics not covered in IV and continue with new ground.

The class notes document has been revised;

http://www.wa1gsf.net/downloads/XO/intro_to_python_notes.doc

We would also like to thank our sponsors;
-Chelmsford Public Library for the sponsorship of the group that includes but not limited to; Facilities, Advertising, A/V, and other items.

-SourceHosting.net for outsourced source control and bug tracking services

For further information about the group please contact: Jim.Drewniak@comcast.net