First Code Retreat took place in Java User Group Lodz on 3rd December.
Under vigilant supervision of Piotr Przybylak 12 programmers were improving their skills in context of Test Driven Development.
From 10.00 to 16.00 (roughly) in the office of Mobica company we went through several sessions, 45-minutes each, during which in pairs (different every session) we tried to implement Game of Life. Unfortunatelly noone succeeded to finish the application, but that was not the aim. The goal was to be comfortable with every line of code, to make it ideal given certain assets (such as e.g.: using no setters and getters, having rich domain model, in contrary to anemic domain model)
How does pair-programming look like? What is TDD about? It is well reflected in this conversation.
Every participant of today's event gained something new. I learnt a few Eclipse shortcuts, creating code templates in it, different aproaches to the same problem (objective vs. structural) a few useful libraries (Mockito, Hamcrest) and testing Android application ( thanks Mariusz :))
By chance a few positions worth reading appeared:
Wzorce projektowe. Analiza kodu sposobem na ich poznanie.
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software ( other books of Michael also worth reading)
Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code
The above list will be updated once I get more positions.
In the meantime we Skype-connected to Code retreat groups in Barcelona and Cracow.
I have a very good impression about this event and would attend similar ones more often.
Learning in practice - priceless, that's something what you can't buy. For everything else there is Master Card ;)
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"...it's cats that are complicated"
Photos from event at Picasa Gallery
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