Slides from https://twitter.com/hansdeleenheer and https://twitter.com/piether:
A Facilitation Game lab is an evening activity in which facilitation games/formats can be tried out.
We start the year with a special session on distributed formats. We will work in three locations: Ghent, Leuven and Hasselt. Bring along a laptop! First hour each location invents one or more icebreakers and a retro/meeting format. The two following hours we will try them out.
Practiced remote mob programming for the first time. Practiced Zoom hosting with breakout sessions for the first time.
Used remote conferencing tools
Tools:
- https://www.sococo.com/
- Google Docs
- Slack
Learned about Python dataclasses and making code more testable.
Mobbed with https://twitter.com/llewellynfalco and others on https://github.com/approvals/ApprovalTests.cpp/commits/master
4 hour mobbing practice
SoCraTes UK Digital Spring is a digital international Software Craft and Testing retreat for open-minded craftspeople who want to improve their craft and the software industry as a whole.
- Participated in a couple of sessions
Attended these virtual sessions:
- Live Legacy Code Refactoring with the Golden Master by Philippe Bourgau https://twitter.com/pbourgau
- Rewriting Legacy Code by Anna Filina https://twitter.com/afilina
- Stop managing technical debt and start solving problems again by Christophe Thibaut
Full 2nd edition recordings https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6fFtAv7wTb_8AvwiYHagUIX1Nz8UeVFp
Attended several of these sessions including breakout practice exercises.
Judy Rees, Annemiek van Helsdingen, Angela Dunbar, Gina Campbell, Greta Irving, Sharon Small, and Penny Tompkins along with James Lawley created this FREE seven-part series to share Clean tools, models, and principles that you can use with yourself and others during this stressful time.
https://cleanlanguagetraining.com/supporting-yourself-and-others-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
A free virtual event organized by @fsharponline featuring world-class F# experts across the globe.
Full recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybkYHYKYeNw
Attended these sessions virtually:
- Hedy: A gradual programming language for education. Felienne Hermans. Recoding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybkYHYKYeNw&t=1129s Recommended
- SAFE stack: Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybkYHYKYeNw&t=14983s
- The SAFE acronym is made up of four separate components:
- Saturn for back-end services in F#
- Azure as a hosting platform plus associated platform services
- Fable for running F# in the web browser
- Elmish for client-side user interfaces
- Takeaways:
- Check out the v2 plans if you want to use it.
- Commercial support is available if you want it: https://safe-stack.github.io/docs/support/
- https://safe-stack.github.io/
- The SAFE acronym is made up of four separate components:
- Cloud Superpowers with Pulumi and F#. Mikhail Shilkov: Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybkYHYKYeNw&t=17031s Recommended
- Also mentioned Farmer, an alternative when only Azure is required https://compositionalit.github.io/farmer/
- F# Domain Modeling and Mathematical Planning. Matthew Crews. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybkYHYKYeNw&t=19064s Recommended
1 day workshop with practical exercises.
Trainer: Robin Vissenaekens
Half day, yearly refresher course.
The Coach Retreat is a one day workshop to experience coaching techniques. However, as this is online, we have made it a half day to fit our different needs when in an online setting.
Practiced following coaching techniques:
- Click Rewind
- Solution Focus
SoCraTes UK Digital Autumn is a digital international Software Craft and Testing retreat for open-minded craftspeople who want to improve their craft and the software industry as a whole.
- Participated in a couple of sessions
- Hosted session: What does this pandemic make possible https://jawn.net/what-does-this-pandemic-make-possible/
Metaphorum is Online Event For Clean Language Enthusiasts. This is an unconference with 150 worldwide participants.
- Hosted session: What does this pandemic make possible https://jawn.net/what-does-this-pandemic-make-possible/