January 17, 2012 - Written by cromwellryan
Today was the inaugural Dayton Clean Coders hosted by SparkBox at their awesome office in the Oregon District. I brought the cheese, but the Robs helped soften the post-CodeMash bacon withdrawal with some amazing bacon burgers. Thanks guys!
Now how is this for some awesome-sauce… 16 coders from little ol’ Dayton came together to practice their craft using Try-Jasmine, Ruby, and C#. They came with only a few days notice on Twitter. Kudos everyone.
@robertHarr suggested the Triangle Kata as a straight forward context to our practice. It turned out to be a great kata for my pair and I. @derekhubbard & @stevemgentile, as well as a few others, chose to go out on their own with the Roman Numerals Kata. While this removed the common context helpful in discussion, they came upon different situations, spurring different comments, including one about the Transformation Priority Premise from @stevemgentile. Good stuff.
@DaveLindsley and I practiced TDD in C# without a test framework to remind ourselves that we often rely on frameworks to fill gaps that only exist in our mind. A simple Assert method will often satisfy our needs. It was great fun to see David (our driver) accelerate as we found a pattern that worked well. Just goes to show there is a balance to be found in experimentation and continuity.
The group committed to another SparkBox hosted Dayton Clean Coders on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. That would put us at February 21st. Please come join us!
SparkBox is really easy to find, but you’ll want to come in the back of the building. Hint: Look for the FORGE sign on the door.