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Michael Norton (doc) on the wandering book

Michael Norton (doc) has written a very inspiring and at the same time humbling blog post about his experience with the wandering book. It is nice to see how the wandering book evolves with the insights and teachings of fellow craftsmen who take time to reflect and write into it, sharing their insights with everyone [...]

Dave Hoover in the wandering book

A new entry in the wandering book has been sighted, this time from Dave Hoover! I particularly liked his post because he takes Jason Gorman’s and Corey Haines’s entries creating a conversation out of them putting his own ideas into it. This entry actually made me think about our craft and how it is been [...]

SCNA

On Wednesday the 26th of August there is going to be again a conference on Software Craftsmanship, this time in Chicago. When I first heard about the conference (Paul Pagel and Dave Hoover told me about it) I was very excited and registered immediately (in fact I was the first person to test if the [...]

The Books first travels

So the wandering book has been out there for a while in the US with Corey and is on it’s way to the next craftsman. Here is Corey’s entry for those who don’t want to check the wandering book Ta!

Software Craftsmanship Meetup: Chicago

Yesterday I joined the Software Craftsmanship meetup of the Chicago Software Craftsmanship User Group. There where two scheduled talks. Doug explained the work he has been doing helping to move the manifesto and the ethics forward, his approach and the hurdles he found by doing so. Jake and Jim explained the recent Journeymen swap between [...]

Dave Hoover talks about: My apprenticeship years

Ade talks about: How to walk the long Road

Afterthoughts on Sunday’s seminar

This last Sunday we held the seminar How to walk the long road: Apprenticeship Patterns in the real world at the workshop. In the seminar Ade gave advice on how to approach apprenticeship when you live in a world where this programs are not so accessible to you. His talk was engaging with the audience [...]

How to walk the long Road: Apprenticeship Patterns in the real World

Ade Oshineye, co-author of the book Apprentice Patterns: Guidance For the Aspiring Software Craftsman, will be holding a seminar on how to begin an apprenticeship as an aspiring craftsman in the world of deadlines and jobs that take almost all of our time. The seminar will take place on Sunday the 17th of May at [...]

Easter Monday

This Easter Monday Ade came over to the workshop to pair with me for a couple of hours on a project that he wanted to start on googles AppEngine. When he came we talked a bit over what the project will be all about. Xandria, as we later in the day decided the baby should [...]

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