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Archive for January, 2009

Summary: CodeRetreat #1 Smashing Success

Yay Team Man, did we have fun at the first CodeRetreat in Ann Arbor, MI, sponsored by Pillar Technology. We had 25 or so programmers show up, including 5 dedicated software craftsmen who assisted me as Master Rabble Rousers for the event. So special thanks indeed to Ron Jeffries, Chet Hendrickson, Corey Haines, Bill Wake, [...]

CodeRetreat #1

Corey Haines, Nayan Hajratwala, a couple other coders, and I, catching up with each other at CodeMash last week, discovered that this single idea had been percolating independently for awhile in our separate heads. The idea is this: you get some programmers together for one or more days, and with bare-bones structure, a few Kata and exercises, you have people [...]