Russian-speaking community of Software Craftsmanship

Hi! I would like to tell you about the new Russian Software Craftsmanship Community. Just want to say, if you are a supporter of the Programming approach , Motherfucker , then this post will obviously cause you disapproval and maybe even a wave of hatred. If you're wondering what Software Craftsmanship is, how to write useful code and be an engineer within flexible methodologies, or if you have a problem for you for a long time, go here.

Software Craftsmanship is the developers' response to the emergence of an Agile methodology for its support from engineers. There is a Software Craftsmanship Manifesto that says:

• Not only working software, but also well-crafted software
• Not only responding to change
• Not only individuals and interactions, but also a community of professionals
• Not only customer collaboration, but also productive partnerships

Accordingly, our community - those who like this approach and wants to develop in it, sharing their experiences. On our site we publish articles and organize meetings.
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An example of our meeting is Code & Coffee. Code & Coffee is an informal morning meeting, where we drink coffee, write code and communicate until we work too long. There are no hard and fast rules and requirements - just a desire to learn something new or, on the contrary, to share experience. So far, we have had two meetings — one to explore the Facebook API, and the other to deal with testing multi-threaded applications. All information about these meetings we publish in the group on Facebook .

Another type of encounter is XP Battle. XP Battle is a free event, which is dedicated to the development of a particular engineering practice or examples of practical use of the tool. Our audience is those who are called Software Engineers. Why do we need it? We want the Russian-speaking engineering community to grow and develop. So that well-known engineering practices (TDD, AFT, and other scary words) began to be used by more and more people, and new practices became available to a wide audience for study and application in work.
The format of the event is very simple: we invite up to 30 participants and up to 15 fans. All participants work in pairs - tester + developer. The event takes place within 4 hours, during which all participants must complete tasks, receive progress and work out our chosen practice, such as TDD. The work goes on in short iterations: introductory - testing - debrief.

We also started a page on Facebook, where we post news, interesting and other useful things. If you are interested in all this, then welcome!