{"id":12055,"date":"2013-11-20T12:59:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T10:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozaicworks.com\/?p=6177"},"modified":"2013-11-20T12:59:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T10:59:29","slug":"codebeer-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mozaicworks.com\/blog\/codebeer-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"Code&Beer Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time a wish was born in our trainer\u2019s soul: to gather programmers in a place, in Romania where anyone can come, code and go wherever they please. His wide experience and knowledge about programming was built on his own years of programming but also on others experience shared when he met them. He chose to do this continuous improvement on learning and his wish came true a year ago \u2013 Code&Beer\u00a0events series started. These events gather\u00a0AgileWorks<\/a>\u00a0community members and not only.\u00a0Adrian Bolboaca<\/a>, the central figure of this story, is our trainer and coach who had the idea of starting this event. You can read about his first experience of the Code&Beer event on his\u00a0blog<\/a>\u00a0written one year ago.<\/p>\n

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On 29th<\/sup>\u00a0October, Code&Beer celebrated 1-year anniversary. Programmers within AgileWorks community met in the same place. After one year, no reservation was needed at the restaurant, the location where\u00a0Code&Beer takes place bimonthly because the host is used with having programmers every two Tuesdays. There are a lot of new people interested in this meeting and we can only wish the Code&Beer event a \u201cHappy\u00a0Anniversary\u201d. The concept lives by its own. Adrian has already trusted in the regular attendees to hand them over the facilitation. During this gathering,\u00a0people have interesting \u00a0discussions, they can learn & experience new things and practices, they write code by themselves but mostly using pair-programming.<\/p>\n

The community gathers people with similar interests, with similar values, and facilitates sharing their knowledge and experience. Most of the people joining Code&Beer prefer to come, experience and understand code, pair-programming, new technologies, new technical problems, technical practices rather than read about them. Albert Einstein said that \u201cAny fool can know. The point is to understand.\u201d\u00a0This bimonthly event<\/a>\u00a0is the appropriate environment to share experience, understand and learn.<\/p>\n

We could call this \u201cwill to be better\u201d or \u201cconstructive curiosity\u201d. What is clear is that we can learn more things joining others\u2019 experience and then doing things\u00a0by ourselves.<\/p>\n

My advice is to experiment this meeting once and after that, you can decide if you like it or not. My guess is that you will want to join again after the first encounter.<\/p>\n

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