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New Greater Lansing Java User Group

Some great news... A few of us have just started a new Java Users Group (JUG) around the Greater Lansing area. We are still working out the meeting details, but the venue will most likely be around the East Lansing area with our first meeting hopefully kicking off in January 2010. For more details please visit - http://groups.google.com/group/greaterlansingjug We encourage you to join us if you are in the Greater Lansing area and… Continue

Added by Yong Lim on November 23, 2009 at 9:09pm — No Comments

Speech Writing: How To Write A Good One?

Speech writing is in lots of ways similar writing a paper, apart from that there is no penalty for spelling and punctuation mistakes. You should not try to write words in your speech that you are not relaxed pronouncing or don't know the meaning of because it can lead to a less fluently delivered speech. To be able to write a high-quality speech is a lot like making a good cake. Having the right elements is key for it's success. Every… Continue

Added by Barbara Wilkins on November 23, 2009 at 1:42am — No Comments

Report from Code Retreat UK

The UK's first code retreat was held yesterday in Glasgow and (although I am biased) it was a fantastic day and I think everyone enjoyed it immensely and, as far as I can tell, everyone learned something new. Here's my report of the day and the events leading up to it. Please feel free to comment if you have anything to add, or ask questions if there is anything I can help you with. Rob Lally, Joe Wright and I organised the event. We started talking about it in mid-September and set the date of… Continue

Added by Adrian Mowat on November 22, 2009 at 1:29pm — 6 Comments

My learnings at Code Retreat Philadelphia

11 people attended the first Code Retreat in Philadelphia. We started a little before 10 AM. We thanked the sponsors, reviewed the game of life and surveyed the group about their Java and Test First knowledge in order to better match everyone for the first pairing session. We ran 3 iterations of 40 minutes before lunch. After each iteration, we regrouped for 5 to 10 minutes to talk about what people found interesting about their last session. Some people experimented with programming facing e… Continue

Added by Sebastian Hermida on November 2, 2009 at 8:58pm — No Comments

Second Code Retreat Reykjavík

The second Code Retreat in Reykjavík will be held on Saturday 7th of November, at Calidris ehf, Vesturhlid 7, Reykjavík. Calidris will sponsor this second code retreat event and provide lunch and light refreshments in the afternoon. At the same time, it is the intent to found an agile.is interest group around Code Craftsmanship. The aim of such a group is to promote the importance of coding skills and high quality code, as opposed to the emphasis on high level design and architecture which has… Continue

Added by Guðlaugur Egilsson on October 22, 2009 at 5:26pm — No Comments

How to Run a CodeRetreat

I've been asked on-line and off-line for this recently, so here it is. Corey Haines and J.B. Rainsberger and I are mostly converging on the following recipe for running something you want to call a CodeRetreat. This recipe may evolve, but our collective desire is that if you diverge very much from this recipe, however useful that divergence may be, you do not call your diverge… Continue

Added by Patrick Wilson-Welsh on October 12, 2009 at 1:30pm — 9 Comments

CodeRetreat with empty Eclipse project on github

Fellow CodeRetreaters: Given the time we spent futzing with git at the beginning of the Toronto 2009 event, I have just created a git repository at github that you can clone to start from an empty Eclipse project. git clone git://github.com/jbrains/coderetreat-eclipse.git Some enterprising soul can create the corresponding IDEA one if they like. Thanks. Continue

Added by J. B. Rainsberger on August 18, 2009 at 4:41pm — 2 Comments

Code retreat Philadelphia, Nov 1st

Very much looking forward to it. http://is.gd/2iGH8 Continue

Added by Sebastian Hermida on August 15, 2009 at 6:36pm — No Comments

Code Retreat Philadelphia

Sebastian Hermida and I 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!! What is a code retreat? - It is an event where we "[bring coders together to code], and then discuss only the things that emerge from that code." [1] - For more details, see http://tinyurl.com/lr39… Continue

Added by Chirag Dadia on August 15, 2009 at 6:35pm — 1 Comment

We had fun at PlateSpin in Toronto

Once again, I want to thank PlateSpin, Corey Haines, and Intelliware for their involvement in putting on Code Retreat Toronto 2009. I especially want to thank Mike DiBernando, who asked me to let him organize everything, and who delivered tremendously, with food, working equipment, and a great space. I couldn't ask for a better organizer. I had a great time at the event itself. We managed to get through, I believe, six iterations of working on Conway's Game of Life, plus a demonstration of a s… Continue

Added by J. B. Rainsberger on August 10, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Code Retreat Pittsburgh Oct 12

There's been some recent mention of a Monday Code Retreat to follow the Simple Design and Testing conference from 10/9-10/11 (http://www.sdtconf.com/). More information to come... Continue

Added by Rob Park on August 4, 2009 at 11:07pm — No Comments

Code from CodeRetreat MI-07-11-09 Available

Hi All: Cheezy (Jeff Morgan) has graciously aggregated some of the code from the CodeRetreat at Gale/Cengage in Farmington, MI on 07-11-09, and has put it on his github. You can find it here: http://github.com/cheezy/coderetreat3/tree/master Thanks, Cheezy! --Patrick Continue

Added by Patrick Wilson-Welsh on July 13, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Rob Park's ATDD/TDD Game of Life blog post

Hi All: At CodeRetreat MI-7-11-09, we did some "whole application, customer-perspective" ATDD, using JBehave, that we have not done at past CodeRetreats. I hope the lessons learned will infect and assist future CodeRetreats. Rob Park has summarized it all beautifully here: http://agileintention.blogspot.com/2009/07/top-down.html Cheers, and thanks, Rob! --Patrick Continue

Added by Patrick Wilson-Welsh on July 13, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Code Retreat, Toronto 2009, August 8

In co-operation with PlateSpin, I would like to present a Code Retreat in Toronto on August 8, 2009. http://www.vimeo.com/5429547 Code Retreat Toronto Hosted by J.B. Rainsberger and Novell/PlateSpin Canada August 8, 2009 J.B. Rainsberger and Novell/PlateSpin Canada will be hosting a code retreat on August 8th, 2009. What is a code retreat? - It is an event where we "[bring coders together to code], and then discuss only the things that emerge from that code." [1] - For more details, see http:… Continue

Added by J. B. Rainsberger on July 7, 2009 at 2:30pm — 8 Comments

The relationship of CleanCode and Test-First

I'm working on some training materials for Test First, and as I mull it over I think there is a clear relationship between good OO skills and Test First. Similarly, Clean Code and Test First must go together. Then I think about stuff like LoD, DRY, IoC (all the good acronyms) and wonder, what am I missing. I'm kinda working in isolation, topics like this are not frequently discussed (if at all) in this environment. I'm working to change that, but I thought I might survey other smart folk and see… Continue

Added by Richard Dammkoehler on June 17, 2009 at 4:20pm — No Comments

CodeRetreat #2 will Fill Up Fast

Hey Guys. We will likely top off the attendance at CodeRetreat #2 at around 40 people; otherwise it gets too unwieldy. Since it is still more than a month away and we already have 6 folks signed up, please sign up soon if you are serious about attending. We haven't begun yet to pound the Pillar ranks of coders looking for attendees, nor the very large network of coders known to LeanDog in Cleveland. That's when the floodgates will op… Continue

Added by Patrick Wilson-Welsh on February 12, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Java Codebase posted

Folks -- I've committed the java codebase that we'll be using up on Google Code. You can checkout trunk by following instructions here: http://code.google.com/p/coderetreat-game-of-life/source/checkout Note that this is an Eclipse project (although you're welcome to configure it f… Continue

Added by Nayan Hajratwala on January 21, 2009 at 12:47pm — 8 Comments

Spouse Quotes

First official spouse quote about this event: "I think it's so weird that you guys want to sit around and write programs all day." Any one else? Continue

Added by Nayan Hajratwala on January 17, 2009 at 3:56pm — 3 Comments

Fair Warning: We'll Pair on Everything

I read a recent post on a local technical user's group thread. It was all about how this guy hates pair programming, which I personally am addicted to, and which I believe is an essential practice and skill for agile teams. At work, you may not pair, you may not want to pair, or you may want to pair all the time. No matter. Fair warning: at CodeRetreat, we will pair on everything. No code will be written without at least two people looking at it while it is being written. The rationale is stra… Continue

Added by Patrick Wilson-Welsh on January 16, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Ann Arbor Spark is a Go for First Event

We got confirmation today on our first-choice location for the first CodeRetreat event (1/24/09): Ann Arbor Spark, at 330 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI‎ - (734) 213-6292. We have 18 folks… Continue

Added by Patrick Wilson-Welsh on January 16, 2009 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

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