[toronto-lisp] toronto-lisp Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6

Wed Oct 31 23:26:50 UTC 2012

Hi ,
I am one of the sheer number of people mentioned by Michael asking for
functional programmers at code retreats. So please do come !

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>    1. Global Day of Code Retreat Toronto Dec 8 (Michael DiBernardo)
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> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:28:31 -0400
> From: Michael DiBernardo <mikedebo at gmail.com>
> To: toronto lisp <toronto-lisp at common-lisp.net>
> Subject: [toronto-lisp] Global Day of Code Retreat Toronto Dec 8
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> Hi folks,
>
> I've been lurking in the group for a long time, although the last time I
> attended a meetup was nigh-3-years ago. (You're all the reason I discovered
> LinuxCaffe! Which is sort of bittersweet, now.)
>
> I'm writing because I'm co-organizing the Toronto edition of the Global
> Day of Coderetreat (description below.) I've run many a Coderetreat, and
> one of the fascinating things about it is the sheer number of people who
> show up and say things like "I'd like to try solving this problem in
> Lisp/Scala/Erlang/Clojure/Haskell/etc.". I'd love to have some people from
> this group coming out to represent the functional crowd!
>
> I've pasted the announcement below -- I hope to see some of you there!
>
> -Mike
>
> ==
>
> You are invited to attend the 2012 Global Day of Coderetreat (Toronto
> chapter), sponsored by Guidewire and Polar Mobile!
>
> Where: Polar Mobile, 156 Front Street West, Suite 610 (5 min walk from
> Union Station!)
> When: Saturday, December 8th, 10am-6pm
> Registration: http://guestli.st/130467
> Cost: FREE!
>
> What is CodeRetreat?
>
> Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the
> fundamentals of software development and design.
>
> Developers engage in focused practice in pairs, working on a single
> problem for the whole day in 45 minute sprints. At the end of each sprint,
> the entire group pauses for a collective retrospective and discusses the
> lessons learned, before re-pairing with a new partner and starting from
> scratch.
>
> This format accomplishes a couple of things:
> - Pairing up with a new partner for each sprint exposes you to how other
> developers work.
> - Starting from scratch in every round removes the pressure of finishing
> the exercise, and instead enables you to focus on moving outside of your
> comfort zone with your design and implementation skills.
>
> Coderetreat is totally language- and technology-agnostic. If you feel like
> using your "native" language all day long, that's up to you. If you'd like
> to try a different language or technique each round, that's awesome too!
>
> What is the Global Day of Coderetreat?
>
> Global Day of Coderetreat is a world-wide event celebrating passion and
> software craftsmanship. Last year, over 1800 passionate software developers
> in 94 cities around the world spent the day practicing the craft of
> software development using the coderetreat format.
>
> See http://globalday.coderetreat.org.
>
> The average CodeRetreat size last year was 15-20 attendees. We can do
> better than that, Toronto! We've got room for 100 people at Polar Mobile's
> spacious office, and we intend to fill it!
>
> What's for Lunch?
>
> We'll be serving a complimentary catered lunch, courtesy of our event
> sponsor Guidewire! Guidewire's engineering culture upholds many of the same
> tenets as CodeRetreat, and we're very happy to have them as a sponsor!
>
> About Guidewire
> Guidewire is a rapidly growing software product development company with a
> unique track record of 100% customer satisfaction.  Voted  #1 in the 25
> Best Tech Companies to Work For the past two years, they offer an
> environment truly dedicated to mentorship, innovation, excellence,
> improvement and fulfillment.
>
> Their commitment to Agile practices and product quality goes far beyond
> scrum, test-driven development, pair-programming, test automation, and
> continuous integration/delivery; it's in their company's DNA.  Their teams
> are autonomous, self-managing and empowered, having clear sense of purpose
> and understanding of the value of their contributions.  They foster a
> culture based on collegiality, rationality and integrity - our core values
> - and encourage process improvements and innovation to be driven bottom up.
>
> Guidewire is headquartered in Foster City, California, with offices in
> Toronto, Beijing, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Munich, Paris, Sydney, and
> Tokyo.  They are currently hiring software engineers with strong object
> oriented and Java experience for their Toronto location.  Please check them
> out at www.guidewire.com!
>
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> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:52:38 -0400
> From: Andrey Paramonov <andrey.paramonov at gmail.com>
> To: Michael DiBernardo <mikedebo at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [toronto-lisp] Global Day of Code Retreat Toronto Dec 8
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> I'll be there. I'm going to use Clojure for sure, maybe Erlang as well.
>
> Andrey
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Michael DiBernardo <mikedebo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've been lurking in the group for a long time, although the last time I
> > attended a meetup was nigh-3-years ago. (You're all the reason I
> discovered
> > LinuxCaffe! Which is sort of bittersweet, now.)
> >
> > I'm writing because I'm co-organizing the Toronto edition of the Global
> Day
> > of Coderetreat (description below.) I've run many a Coderetreat, and one
> of
> > the fascinating things about it is the sheer number of people who show up
> > and say things like "I'd like to try solving this problem in
> > Lisp/Scala/Erlang/Clojure/Haskell/etc.". I'd love to have some people
> from
> > this group coming out to represent the functional crowd!
> >
> > I've pasted the announcement below -- I hope to see some of you there!
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > ==
> >
> > You are invited to attend the 2012 Global Day of Coderetreat (Toronto
> > chapter), sponsored by Guidewire and Polar Mobile!
> >
> > Where: Polar Mobile, 156 Front Street West, Suite 610 (5 min walk from
> Union
> > Station!)
> > When: Saturday, December 8th, 10am-6pm
> > Registration: http://guestli.st/130467
> > Cost: FREE!
> >
> > What is CodeRetreat?
> >
> > Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the
> > fundamentals of software development and design.
> >
> > Developers engage in focused practice in pairs, working on a single
> problem
> > for the whole day in 45 minute sprints. At the end of each sprint, the
> > entire group pauses for a collective retrospective and discusses the
> lessons
> > learned, before re-pairing with a new partner and starting from scratch.
> >
> > This format accomplishes a couple of things:
> > - Pairing up with a new partner for each sprint exposes you to how other
> > developers work.
> > - Starting from scratch in every round removes the pressure of finishing
> the
> > exercise, and instead enables you to focus on moving outside of your
> comfort
> > zone with your design and implementation skills.
> >
> > Coderetreat is totally language- and technology-agnostic. If you feel
> like
> > using your "native" language all day long, that's up to you. If you'd
> like
> > to try a different language or technique each round, that's awesome too!
> >
> > What is the Global Day of Coderetreat?
> >
> > Global Day of Coderetreat is a world-wide event celebrating passion and
> > software craftsmanship. Last year, over 1800 passionate software
> developers
> > in 94 cities around the world spent the day practicing the craft of
> software
> > development using the coderetreat format.
> >
> > See http://globalday.coderetreat.org.
> >
> > The average CodeRetreat size last year was 15-20 attendees. We can do
> better
> > than that, Toronto! We've got room for 100 people at Polar Mobile's
> spacious
> > office, and we intend to fill it!
> >
> > What's for Lunch?
> >
> > We'll be serving a complimentary catered lunch, courtesy of our event
> > sponsor Guidewire! Guidewire's engineering culture upholds many of the
> same
> > tenets as CodeRetreat, and we're very happy to have them as a sponsor!
> >
> > About Guidewire
> > Guidewire is a rapidly growing software product development company with
> a
> > unique track record of 100% customer satisfaction.  Voted  #1 in the 25
> Best
> > Tech Companies to Work For the past two years, they offer an environment
> > truly dedicated to mentorship, innovation, excellence, improvement and
> > fulfillment.
> >
> > Their commitment to Agile practices and product quality goes far beyond
> > scrum, test-driven development, pair-programming, test automation, and
> > continuous integration/delivery; it's in their company's DNA.  Their
> teams
> > are autonomous, self-managing and empowered, having clear sense of
> purpose
> > and understanding of the value of their contributions.  They foster a
> > culture based on collegiality, rationality and integrity - our core
> values -
> > and encourage process improvements and innovation to be driven bottom up.
> >
> > Guidewire is headquartered in Foster City, California, with offices in
> > Toronto, Beijing, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Munich, Paris, Sydney, and
> > Tokyo.  They are currently hiring software engineers with strong object
> > oriented and Java experience for their Toronto location.  Please check
> them
> > out at www.guidewire.com!
> >
> >
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