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Code Retreat Philadelphia (Java)

Event Details

Time: November 1, 2009 from 9am to 5pm
Location: Independents Hall in Philadelphia PA
City/Town: Philadelphia, PA
Website or Map: http://www.indyhall.org/space/
Event Type: code, retreat
Organized By: Chirag Dadia and Sebastian Hermida
Latest Activity: Feb 24, 2010

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Event Description

We would like to present a Code Retreat in Philadelphia on November 1, 2009.

Code Retreat Philadelphia
Hosted by Chirag Dadia and Sebastian Hermida
Event will take place at Independents Hall in Philadelphia PA (http://indyhall.org)
Guest star: J.B Rainsberger and hopefully you!!

At code retreat, we retreat from the world to advance in our craft. We sharpen our saws, together.

We retreat from production and business value to increase our production capacity, our quality, our velocity, our ability to produce business value.

We retreat from immersion in deep technology issues to advance in our ability to learn and adopt to any technology well.

We retreat from our fears, and embrace new practices and patterns.

We retreat from our local ponds and swim in a larger pool. We connect with other passionate coders who we seldom get to code with. We make new connections and learn new lessons.

At code retreat everything is about the journey and nothing about the destination.

Join us on Sunday November 1st, 2009 in Philadelphia at indyhall. We will start at 9am and will be practicing Conway’s game of life in Java.

Here is a approximate agenda of the day:

We’ll spend 15 mins introducing the event, drinking coffee, thanking the sponsors, answering questions and describing the game of life problem.

We will break down into pairs and run an iteration of 45 mins.

Take a 10 minute break and throw away the code (this could be hard!), switch pairs and get ready to start the next iteration.

Run another iteration and throw away more code.

We will be exploring new things to try: coding with no if statements, using TDD as you mean it. 1-line methods, interfaces everywhere, etc…

We have lunch when it makes sense and see if we have something to demo.

After lunch, iterations might run shorter switching pairs after each iteration and always throwing away the work.

Finish the afternoon around 5pm or so and head for beers across the street to National Mechanics

Be ready

Bring your laptop with:

* Java 1.5 (minimum)
* Git
* An IDE (Eclipse, intelliJ, etc…)
* If you use Eclipse, consider getting J.B Rainsberger’s game of life template for eclipse

If you use intelliJ, consider adding an empty template like JB’s.

We will have coffee, soft drinks, and snacks available. Lunch will be supplied. However we are still looking for a food sponsor. Help us out!

If you are going to attend, please RSVP at http://coderetreat.ning.com/events/code-retreat-philadelphia-java or at coderetreatphilly@gmail.com. We may be overbooked, so the RSVP is required to determine headcount.

Please send any questions you might have to coderetreatphilly@gmail.com.

Hope to see you there!

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Comment by Sonny To on November 1, 2009 at 9:39pm: awesome event! I loved pairing up with different people and seeing their approach to the problem

Comment by Patrick Wilson-Welsh on October 22, 2009 at 12:27am: Oh, BTW, here are updated CodeRetreat facilitation guidelines

Comment by Patrick Wilson-Welsh on October 22, 2009 at 12:21am: Wish I could be there! I will be flying back from a job in Mexico that day. Have fun, guys!

Comment by Mike Bria on September 15, 2009 at 11:04pm: Code can be beautiful, alas, let us make it so...

Comment by Chirag Dadia on September 3, 2009 at 9:08pm: We will be working in Java. Even if you are not a Java programmer, I encourage you to come. The goal is to write code, have fun and talk about things that emerge out of code, language is not the focus.

Comment by J. B. Rainsberger on September 2, 2009 at 11:15pm: Now that you've moved it to Philly, I will attend.

Comment by Kevin Fitzpatrick on September 2, 2009 at 7:30pm: Based on JB's link (http://github.com/jbrains/coderetreat-eclipse/tree/master) I'm going to assume we're working in Java.

Comment by Chuck Fitzpatrick on September 2, 2009 at 9:13am: This sounds pretty cool. What language will be used for the coding, or does everyone use their own favorite? Java? Ruby?

Comment by J. B. Rainsberger on August 18, 2009 at 4:43pm: I have added a git repository with an empty Eclipse project starting point at github.

git://github.com/jbrains/coderetreat-eclipse.git

Comment by Chirag Dadia on August 15, 2009 at 6:57pm: The event was originally planned for Pittsburgh the day after SDT conf. On popular demand, the event has been moved to Philly.

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