Code Adept

This past Saturday we held the first in what I’m hoping many CodeRetreats.  What is CodeRetreat you ask?  CodeRetreat started as a discussion between Nayan Hajratwala, Patrick Wilson-Welsh, and Corey Haines at CodeMash 2009 just a few short weeks ago about creating a meetup where developers could come together and practice good software craftsmanship with the guidance of a few select tomes of good software craftsmanship such as Bob Martin’s Clean Code.  Many of us are stuck wading through legacy code day to day in our normal 9 to 5 jobs and don’t get the opportunity to hone our skills and that is exactly what the CodeRetreat is about.  That and the opportunity to get to pair with great minds like Ron Jeffries, Chet Hendrickson, Bill Wake, Corey Haines, and J.B. Rainsberger, to name a few. Read the rest of this entry »