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Experimenting with presentation formats

Started this discussion. Last reply by Sebastian Hermida Dec 1, 2009. 6 Replies 0 Likes

I ran into a new presentation format that I did not know about: Pecha Kucha. In a nutshell, the presenter shows 20 images for 20 seconds apiece, for a total time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds.I personally…Continue

Concept Camp 2009 is this weekend

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So you like camping? And you like coding? Well, Concept Camp is only 3 hours from Philly in the hills of Maryland!Concept camp will feature some of today's most interesting minds in development.…Continue

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Sebastian Hermida liked Audrey R. Troutt's event 'Code Kata Night May 2011' May 12, 2011

Round Table on sustainable development at Sheraton Society Hill

April 27, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm

The round table panelists will be Eduardo Jezierski and Linda Rising.Eduardo Jezierski (CTO of InSTEDD) InSTEDD's mission is to "improve global health, safety and sustainable development" through:Building Capacity within communities to foster a local culture of innovationCreating Collaboration Technologies for social goodCollaborating with End Users through a bottom up design and development processEnsuring Usefulness and Impact through research and evaluationLinda Rising (co-author of Fearless…See More

Event updated by Sebastian Hermida Apr 13, 2011

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Sebastian Hermida commented on Audrey R. Troutt's event 'Code Kata Night - Almost December 2010'

Hey! There is nothing crazy about rolling out our own testing framework or trying hard on not using getters and setters as a calisthenics kata :) Could we at least consider other languages? The last kata that we did at work was a simple exercise…

Dec 1, 2010

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Agile Tour at Siemens, Malvern, PA

October 14, 2010 from 4pm to 8pm

This is our second annual conference in Philly. The event will take place at Siemens in Malvern, PA from 4pm to 8pm on October 14th.Seats are free but limited!This is not your typical conference format. We will be running 4 concurrent talks of 25 minutes. Before each block of talks, each speaker will introduce their topic to trick you into attending their talk ;-)We will also have an ongoing running code retreat for hands on coding, so programmers, bring your laptops.For registration and…See More

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Sebastian Hermida commented on Audrey R. Troutt's blog post 'Code Kata August'

Audrey, as I reread your post, I am thinking that the work that we (Aaron and I) showed to the group was targeted to our peers (programmers, architects) but definitely not customers. Our talk was fairly technical. We even mentioned the pub-sub…

Aug 26, 2010

Sebastian Hermida commented on Audrey R. Troutt's blog post 'Code Kata August'

Fantastic summary! Can't wait for the next one!

Aug 25, 2010

Audrey R. Troutt commented on Sebastian Hermida's event 'Code Kata August'

I posted a blog http://www.agilephilly.com/profiles/blogs/code-kata-august and photos http://www.agilephilly.com/photo/albums/code-kata-august-architectural from last night

Aug 25, 2010

Audrey R. Troutt commented on Sebastian Hermida's blog post 'Follow-up from August's Roundtable'

I sort of took minutes, but it was more like "these are all the things I have to go read/watch later" You got them all, Sebastian. Thanks!

Aug 18, 2010

Audrey R. Troutt commented on Sebastian Hermida's blog post 'Follow-up from August's Roundtable'

My favorite thing that I learned last night was "WTF (we test first) Wednesdays" as a technique for test infecting your colleagues --thanks Sebastian!

Aug 18, 2010

Aaron Kuehler commented on Sebastian Hermida's blog post 'Follow-up from August's Roundtable'

This was a very informative session. Thanks to all who attended and participated. I left the meeting with some ideas and confidence to try to influence a process change in my team. I am appreciative of the advice and feedback of the group and…

Aug 18, 2010

Sebastian Hermida commented on Sebastian Hermida's blog post 'Follow-up from August's Roundtable'

I also mentioned the book switch. I wrote a little summary about it here: http://sebastianlab.com/post/954428303/switch

Aug 18, 2010

Follow-up from August's Roundtable

First of all, thanks to Keith for hosting!It was a great discussion. We will definitely have more of this events in the future...Nobody from our group took minutes (I know, I know,.. this is the first time).So these are the highlights I remember that we agreed on sharing (please add more in the comments):Refactoring videos from Mike Hill showing how to refactor and write tests for an "ugly" open source project:…See More

Blog post by Sebastian Hermida Aug 18, 2010

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Audrey R. Troutt commented on Sebastian Hermida's event 'Code Kata August'

Here is one of Ted's blog posts which talks about the architecture katas http://blogs.tedneward.com/2010/06/17/Architectural+Katas.aspx what do you guys think?

Aug 17, 2010

Audrey R. Troutt commented on Sebastian Hermida's event 'Code Kata August'

I am getting the architecture katas from Ted Neward himself. As payment he wants us to come up with three more architecture katas and send them back to him, so I'll be picking your brains afterwards for ideas.

Aug 17, 2010

Code Kata August at Drexel Math Forum

August 24, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm

Our Monthly Code Kata. Will probably try some of the Architecture katas that Audrey learned at UberConf.

Event posted by Sebastian Hermida Aug 16, 2010

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Follow-up from August's Roundtable

Posted on August 17, 2010 at 9:00pm 6 Comments 0 Likes

First of all, thanks to Keith for hosting!

It was a great discussion. We will definitely have more of this events in the future...

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How to meet other craftsmen

Posted on January 18, 2010 at 10:19pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

I had the luck to meet a craftsman during these holidays. He is not a software craftsman. He does not work with computers, but with construction and repairs of homes and apartments. He is a master mason.

During my stay in Spain, I had to interview and evaluate the proposals of three local constructions shops to almost rebuild from scratch an old apartment there.

I observed a bunch of similarities with the craftsmanship movement of our software industry. This actually… Continue