Last year I was thinking about a session during which attendees would learn how to focus on refactoring. I had some thoughts about this: we would need a list of coding smells, and have some cards to give the attendees that had that coding smells in their code. Now the obvious question was: how can you have coding smells if you do not have a code base? I thought about it, and then I figured it out: during coderetreats I anyway see legacy code after 10-15 minutes. So if this session would take…

I wrote a post on the history of Taking Baby Steps, you can read it here.

Now I would like to tell you more about the workshop and the technique itself. While coding, for me it is very important to be focused on one idea. Why? Because this is how programmer mistakes appear in the code; some people tell them bugs. The other thing I am interested in is to have an undo button…

I wrote a blog post on my company site:

Facilitator's notes on coderetreat in Joensuu

Let me tell you a story on how I thought about teaching other programmers how to take small steps to help them minimize the mistakes by focusing on a small thought.

A couple of years ago I was working on a legacy project, meaning I did not know anything about the business, and it was written in Delphi .Net which was totally unknown to me. I needed to translate this medium-sized code-base from Delphi .Net into .Net / Silverlight.

All the team was using a centralized source…

cross-posted from here

Global day of code retreat took place worldwide in 154 locations on Saturday 8th December. Over 36 hours, from New Zealand to Hawaii, almost 2000 developers came together to practice their craft.



Me and …

cross-posted from here

On December the 8^th, we had the Global Day of Code Retreat in Cluj-Napoca. We have joined the other 150 cities all over the world in a great global event.

My first contact with a…

You can find the original blog post here.

Bootstrap Hero, xTuple and the 757 Creative Space

My thanks to our food sponsors xTuple and BootStrap Hero as well as to the 757 Creative Space for letting us host…

You can find the original blog post here.

Last Saturday I hosted and facilitated Global Day Of Coderetreat event in Skopje (Macedonia). It is second year I'm doing that, you can read the notes from last year here …

Original post at: http://kyleboon.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/global-day-of-code-retreat-minneapolis-edition/

On Saturday I hosted and facilitated Global Day of Code Retreat – Minneapolis. My employer BloomHealth sponsored the event at our office in downtown Minneapolis. We had 16 people come in on a Saturday in the snow during the Holidays…

Facilitating a code retreat, amsterdam edition

Marc Evers and me facilitated the Amsterdam code retreat hosted by Mirabeau and put together by devnology last saturday. More importantly, Rob Westgeest facilitated the kids track together with Freek Leemhuis.…

As last year I helped the coderetreat first-time facilitators to jump-in and organize their first coderetreat. I had some training sessions on Google Hangout during which I talked with a lot of passionate professionals from all over the world. Together with me Jim Hurne had done the same effort to spread his knowledge about the way he facilitates a coderetreat.

Jim has done a lot of work for the Global Day, he added the sessions on the…

(originally posted at http://mikedebo.ca/toronto-global-day-of-coderetreat-2012/)

My first coderetreat experience was in 2009. I became involved in the Software Craftsmanship community through an effort called the Wandering Book, in which a little Moleskine journal was physically…

Demián Gutiérrez…

When Umeå Java User Group participated in GDCR2012, it was our third Code Retreat setup. This time we feel we have got the hang of it!

There were twelve participants with quite diverse programming backgrounds, and during the day we got to stretch our minds to identify the weak and strong spots of our individual crafts.

At the last retrospective we discussed a number of more or less personal insights gained during the day.

• The craft of programming is not only…

(Original post: http://athos.blogs.balabit.com/2012/12/global-day-of-code-retreat-2012/)

Last Saturday was about the second Global Day of Code Retreat for us with DeVill and 15 other developers in Budapest, when more than 3000 developers in 160…

(Original at: http://alapamui.blogspot.com.es/2012/12/global-day-of-code-retreat-2012.html)

Last year I was in the Global Day of Code Retreat in Barcelona, held in …

This post is cross-posted from http://blog.thesoftwarecraft.com

Yesterday, Saturday December 8th, the Global Day of Coderetreat 2012 was finally there. As facilitator of the event in Haarlem (The Netherlands) I was quite excited about this event, and think we it was great and much fun.

Even though we had an event with only 5 people,…

On September 22nd Andreas Simon (@ndrssmn) and I (@janernsting) hosted the very first coderetreat in Münster, Germany. After quite some preparations for the event, we were very happy to welcome all participants on Saturday morning. Since they all decided to spend their free time with us, we prepared some breakfast, including rolls, coffee, and tea.

Andreas set…