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Duncan McGregor has been a professional software developer for 35 years. He was lucky enough to be an early adopter of Object Oriented programming, which was the gateway drug to patterns, Extreme Programming, agile and lean. He coauthored Java to Kotlin: A Refactoring Guidebook. These days he is mostly retired, but still produces a weekly YouTube video. He has tried almost anything in his quest for better software, including, but not limited to, actually talking to people.

@natpryce has been programming for \<coughty-cough\> years, across many languages, platforms, application domains and industries. He enjoys sharing programming tips, tricks and techniques. He co-authored the books "Java to Kotlin: A Refactoring Guidebook" and "Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests".

Join @natpryce and Duncan in this two-hour workshop where we’ll let the AI do the initial grunt work so that we have more time to polish. First we’ll generate a game of snake; maybe even the tests. We could ship that, but it’s beneath us. How good could the code be? Duncan has a theory that Snake could be really pure, with only the single side effect of drawing the game state to the screen. Let’s refactor to find out.

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Where else could you go to get in-person teaching from such a fab group of trainers? The @socrates UK CIC unconference’s Training Day (in the UK near London from June 18th, links in comments) includes Duncan McGregor & Nat Pryce, with their session “I Suppose This Is My Life Now - Mercilessly Refactoring AI Code”.

We’re all about the craft at SoCraTes. But just guessing the next thing the average developer would type doesn’t meet our coding standards. And sometimes we like to have some fun.

Clare Sudbery Apr 8

For those in Manchester, I'm hosting some TDD fun with the tiny maze kata at Ada in Ancoats tomorrow night. Come join me!

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XPManchester - Tiny Maze (but Big Fun) Kata

@ClareSudbery will be running April's XPManchester, where she will be having us pair on the Tiny Maze kata using cyber-dojo.org

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And that’s not all! Here’s the full programme (more: https://socratesuk.org/training_day.html):

SoCraTes UK - Training Day

Gemma's work focuses on bridging the gap between business and engineering teams, with a particular interest in people, ways of working, and making complex ideas practical and usable. Alongside her consulting work, she writes about engineering culture, hiring, and team development on https://rubygem.blog

If that doesn't interest you, she has a whole cheese joke routine and a wealth of ferret facts.

Gemma Cameron

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Gemma Cameron

Bring a few of your own users' stories and we’ll bring them to life in a very short amount of time, with no drawing skills required!

Gemma Cameron is a tech and business consultant, software developer, and experienced speaker based in Manchester. She has been an active member of the UK tech community for over a decade, speaking at conferences including SPAConf, Agile Manchester and DDD Europe.