Gavin Hughes (Proudcloud’s newest RoR Rockstar) and I attended the 2nd Cloud Developers Group Meetup at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Burgos Circle.

Gavin and I drove round and round trying to find the place but finally found it after failed attempts at geolocating ourselves using the iPhone. Parking was a mess although we got a spot close enough to walk to the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf without breaking a sweat.

We were late looking for the place but eventually arrived to catch the last slide of  Piotr Banasik‘s preso. I hope he shares it with us on Slideshare.

Adam Baechler welcomed us at the registration desk with free CB&T Swirl cards with load!

We got to meet a few interesting folks from the developer community who we quickly invited to Roofcamp. The collection of geeks included meetup organizers  Mike Stephenson and Mark Leduc of OutsourcingThingsDone, Ming Andrada & Vic Zapata of Webbuggers, Elmer Rivera of EXIST, and a few other guys we failed to get business cards from.

Gavin noticed a bar beside CB&T called Izumi Sake earlier so after we wrapped up our coffee laced meet-and-greet, we moved next door for some real networking over beers and chilled Sake.

After an hour or two of kampais and saluds, Gavin and I realized that we hadn’t had dinner yet. On the way home, Gavin suggested a quick run for some Mickey D’s but I told him that I’d bring him to Stackers for some real burgers. The Jack Burgers, fries, and a Coke really hit the spot!

The OTD boys invited us to a party tonight at Kuya’s but since I got home around 2:30am this morning, I’m pretty sure I’ve worn out my wife’s patience for the weekend (I even missed the Argentina-Brazil game).

Thanks fellas for a rocking meetup and the awesome convo over sake!

Bringing Agile Development practices to Asia can be beset by obstacles due to prevailing cultural bias towards fixed-scope engagements and pre-conceived needs.

Now that Pivotal Labs is trying to make headway in Asia by way of Singapore, Carl Coryell-Martin evangelizes agile methods and tries to answer the issues experienced by asian dev firms facing both old school customers and coders.

In this talk Carl gave at echelon 2010, he emphasizes two things:

1. Customers can’t really scope at the start what form their application will take; and
2. Developers really don’t have the ability to establish estimates of time and cost based on a pre-determined scope of features.

Thinking otherwise, according to Carl, “will just leave you in tears.”

Good call to have Roofcamp #6 at Mag:Net Bonifacio High Street.

That location was more conducive to attendance over the Proudcloud HQ located in Libis. Looks like Roofcamp’s got a new home! Thanks to @jcmedina for helping us with the venue.

We started later than scheduled which tells us the next one should have a pre-talk window of around an hour to get the folks in and settled.

First up was Alan Magtoto and Alex Calero presenting the Digital Puppet technology they used for the movie “Dayo”. Good of them to point out that beyond the obvious entertainment application, this technology had very serious potential in child education and medical rehab.

The 2nd talk was given by Michael “Smitty” Smith, Jr., SEA Evangelist for the Yahoo Developer Network. Michael enlightened the crowd on Yahoo’s open developer platform and their keen interest in partnering with the local dev and startup community. He reminded everyone that Yahoo had a pretty hefty user base that could be exploited by app developers.

Michael "Smitty" Smith Jr. on the Yahoo Developer Network

After the talks, the crowd (composed of a healthy number of developers, angels, and VCs) had a good amount of time mingling and connecting with each other.

A Special thanks to Jack Madrid ( @jackmadrid) and Erwin Oliva ( @cyberbaguiboy)  Yahoo! for supporting the event! See you at Roofcamp #7!