Here's a rare opportunity to be part of the first Coderetreat event in Sri Lanka...

Johannes Brodwall, Chief Scientist at Steria will be here in the island for the 1st Coderetreat event in Sri Lanka.

During a Coderetreat, developers work together on a single piece of code, over and over, with different partners, to experiment with each other on different styles, put proper coding practices to use, and learn from each other.

This free event which will be…

Heya guys,

I just wanted to let you know that we ran the first legacy coderetreat of 2012 in Belgium a little over a week ago. I wrote down a short story about it, that you can read here.

I'm going to blog about the different sessions we experimented with soon, I'll keep you posted here as well of course.

Despite it's name, Coderetreat is intense.

You spend the day focused on a single problem (often a single aspect of the problem) for 8 full hours to the exclusion of everything else. You code with many different people throughout the day. On top of all that, you're asked to perform various contorted exercises in order to learn how to write better code. Your assumptions are challenged. Your prior beliefs about code put in question. You learn new techniques and…

(Cross-posted from here.)

This past Saturday Rhiza hosted a Coderetreat for members of the Pittsburgh development community. Coderetreat is a global organization dedicated to helping programmers become better programmers. It does this by helping local groups organize workshops - the code retreats - that let developers focus on key elements of the craft of programming without the…

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This is cross posted from my blog http://www.codelord.net/2012/02/28/notes-from-the-israeli-software-craftsmanship-group-code-retreat/

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A month ago I had the great pleasure of participating in a Code Retreat here in Israel, which was facilitated by the amazing …

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This post is cross-posted from Highgroove Studio's blog: http://highgroove.com/blog.

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This weekend I attended my very first code retreat, hosted by the…

retrouver mon article sur le Global Code Retreat Paris 2011 sur mon blog :

http://agilevelup.blogspot.com/2011/12/global-code-retreat-paris-2011.html

It is with great pleasure that I'm announcing the first recipient of a Coderetreat Community Contribution Fund (c3f) sponsorship: Black Girls Code! The c3f is sponsoring snacks and drinks during the 6 weeks that Black Girls Code participates in the National STEM Video Game Challenge. This is an exciting program…

Just like we have announced two weeks ago, we have organised a unique…

(Cross post from Srulix' Pit)

Last Thursday, I participated in a Code Retreat event with Corey Haines (courtesy of the Software Craftmanship in Israel group), and I want to sum up the insights for whoever is interested, but mostly for future…

Adi and I came up with a new idea that helps people to focus on small steps and also opens them up for committing small chunks very often. The main idea is that people get a very short time box to write a new test and implement it the simplest way possible. After that they get another short time box to refactor the code.

Here you can find the…

I facilitated my first in-house coderetreat last week. It was weird not to have my partner in crimes with me but I managed. For this workshop, I had to add a little bit of theory between sessions, really explaining the basics of TDD and giving some more context around the 4 elements of simple design. So we only got to do 5 sessions.…

On Saturday 7 January Adi and I facilitated the first coderetreat of 2012 in Amsterdam and it was a blast. It was my first coderetreat outside of Belgium and it was fun to see that people were really surprised that a guy living in France and one living in Belgium were crazy enough to drive all the way to Amsterdam to go and facilitate a coderetreat there. All I can say is that I'm glad I can do things like this. It's awesome to see passionate people that really want to change things. It's an…

CodeRetreat with Corey Haines v2012

by Isaac Sanders

TL;DR

CodeRetreat rocks, and the Law of Demeter makes sense to me now (it means you don’t reach into other objects).

Also, attend any CodeRetreat you can, especially if Corey is facilitating.

For those of you who don’t know what CodeRetreat is visit coderetreat.org…

I drew this picture with Corey Haines at the Krakow April 2011 Code Retreat. I started with the overall silhouette of the method, and Corey added the eye and the comment. In the end, I think we got an excellent motivational poster. So, developers, don't let your methods look like this!

The right bottom corner is about another thing you should…

Initially published here.

1. You will love programming again



2. You relive the first moments of programming (unless you started with Cobol)



3. You will see how other people write code



4. You will write and…

This article was initially published here on 14 August 2010. It refers to the code retreats organized in Romania between June 2009-August 2010, tipically co-facilitated by Maria Diaconu and me.

Here are some of the things we’ve learned about running a code retreat. We’ve facilitated about 10 code retreats, including one with Corey Haines.The smallest one was with…

I just received a link to the video of the London Coderetreat, which the lovely guys at Valtech have put together for us. I know it's been a while since the event, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. You can check it out on Vimeo, or watch it below.

First of all I would like to thank my facilitation counterpart Adrian Bolboaca for all our coderetreats. I'm glad to be able to team up with this guy everytime.

We had loads of people joining us with a lot of new guys in the group that were new to TDD and pair programming as well. "Tdd as if you meant it" had a really big impact on a couple of the newbies which was a bit of a surprise for us. At the same time it was my personal highlight of…