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Here, we share recaps of our major events, updates on the evolution of our organization, and other noteworthy news. Dives into a past meetup, announcements about improvements, or a behind-the-scenes look at how we operate, this is the place where we list it all.
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Crafting Interpreters Book Study Club
Andrew Magerman did it again! On January 9th, we kicked off a new Book Study Club—this time diving into Robert Nystrom’s Crafting Interpreters. Every two weeks, participants will gather online to discuss chapter by chapter, exploring the intricacies of building interpreters from the ground up.
...read moreGlobal Day of Coderetreat 2024
This year’s Global Day of Coderetreat (GDCR) 2024 was a milestone for our community: for the first time, we hosted the event in two locations simultaneously—at Wingtra in Zurich and megazord.studio in Bern!
...read moreSoCraTes Day Switzerland 2024
We hosted the 2024 Zürich edition of Socrates Day (Software Craft and Testing), an international conference. It is an annually occurring unconference where developers, admins and testers meet up and spontaneously organize themselves into discussion groups.
...read moreMeetup with Alistair Cockburn
Our Zürich community of developers was graced by the visit of Alistair Cockburn, co-author of the Agile Manifesto, one of the “42 Greatest Software Professionals of All Times.”
...read moreGlobal Day of Coderetreat 2023
On November 18th, Andrew Magerman hosted the Global Day of Coderetreat (GDCR) 2023 at Ergon, and it was a total success! From the very start, the energy in the room was incredible—developers from different backgrounds came together to sharpen their skills, experiment with new ideas, and most importantly, have fun.
...read moreDomain Driven Design Book Study Club
Sabine Winkler and Corinna Lange organized this Book Study, which took place between February and October 2023.
...read moreWizard Book Study Club
Coders Only have started a study group whose purpose is to study the Wizard book.
...read moreTDD Demystified (Episode 6)
This time we looked into the different between messy and clean fixtures, dealt with the various types of Test Doubles and recommended a few links to delve into. And with that we also shelved the TDD Demystified series for the time being, because we’ve more interesting topics in the pipeline.
...read moreBranching and joining development histories 2/2
In this session of the Git series we explored git cherry-pick and git rebase along with its most important options.
...read moreTDD Demystified (Episode 5)
Ok, so thanks to all who joined us during the school-holidays for our next practice round that we again spent on our fancy new static site generator aka transmogrifier. This was not always without challenge, so extra thanks to all sticking around until the end.
...read moreTDD Demystified (Episode 4)
So after watching @infinitary complete the Price Engine Kata of Cinema Paradiso and having a thorough discussion on when and why to use and not to use TDD, we had our first go at Transmogrifier, our future static website generator.
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Hey thanks to all of you joining our third session, about Getting into The Flow. The idea sprang from the struggles of the second workshop and so we set out to work on an already specified interface with sequenced test flow, this time creating a Seat Allocator for our renowned Cinema Paradiso.
...read moreTDD Demystified (Episode 2)
So in the second session we took TDD Back to Basics and after watching and discussing the Roman Numerals Kata we went to create a Price Engine for our Cinema Paradiso. And we found that with TDD The Flow is hard to get into, so that’s what we’ll do next. And then I forgot to take a screenshot while we were 16 so here’s only one from the latter part of the session. Join us for the next one!
...read moreBranching and joining development histories 1/2
Yay! Second deep dive into Git using Gitception! We discovered the magic behind branches and merging and had vivid discussions about workflows, improvement, integrity and discipline. Who would have expected branches to be so light-weight? And merge to be so simple? We also took a glance at frequently met references which we will discuss further in other sessions! Are you joining us as well?
...read moreTDD Demystified (Episode 1)
Our first session into all things testing, with a focus on TDD, brought vivid discussions and lots of insights. One of these being that there are many aspects of automated testing that we should be addressing, and so shall we. You will find more details about the topics of follow-up events on our TDD Demystified page.
...read moreGlobal Day of Coderetreat 2020
So, as always, we had a blast at the Global Day of Coderetreat, despite being forced online. Jitsi + Miro + repl.it served us reasonably well and you find some visual mementos below.
...read moreDeep dive into Git's information model
The first deep dive into Git using Gitception! We discussed the complex internal structure used by Git to manage versions and introduced concepts which help you improve your workflow. Who would have expected so many details behind so basic commands (git add and git commit)? Are you ready for the next session?
...read moreLaunch of Git Series aka Gitception
Our amazing Pablo preparing to blow all our minds with the amazing insights into Git that are to be gained with his amazing Gitception technique. And good preparatory chats were had. Join us next time?
...read moreSoCraTes Day Switzerland 2020
This was an online event and we forgot to take a screenshot of the group call so the agenda is all you get… sorriez 🙂
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