Philadelphia’s code retreat
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!
