For this Software Craftsmanship gathering the weather looks nice, so some people will probably be staying after the meeting to have a few drinks at Kepner's Tavern. The meeting will run until about 8:00 unless we go over working on a Kata or other programming exercise. You're welcome to join us at the...

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April's meeting will be at Henning Software's offices located in downtown Hudson, OH on the third Wednesday of April, which is April 18, 2012. Following March's successful meeting , I am suggesting as a topic for the meeting, that we discuss the topics from the NimblePros Software Craftsmanship Calendars...

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The March meeting went really well considering how nice the weather was. We had 15 people in attendance for the meeting. Our first topic of the night was the Open/Closed Principle, which was last year's March topic from the 2011 NimblePros Software Craftsmanship Calendar. Our second topic of the night...

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The Software Engineering 101 class we held in Independence on October 7, 2011 went very well. We received a lot of good feedback about the event from the attendees. Of our usual HudsonSC attendees, about 6 or so were able to be at the event. Wednesday, October 19, 2011 is our next meeting. It will be...

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July's Software Craftsmanship Meeting is right around the corner, so make sure you sign up now so who know you're coming. It helps with ordering pizza. The next meeting is on July 20, 2011 at 6:00, and people will be arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 for the meeting. We're located in downtown Hudson conveniently...

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A discussion topic brought up by Kevin Kuebler at this most recent Software Craftsmanship meeting was, "what can we do to improve the group?" The focus of the topic was in what activities the group could do that would be of interest to those in attendance. Some ideas came out during this discussion...

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Our next meeting of the Hudson Software Craftsmanship group in Hudson, OH will be March 16th. You can sign up now for the event here . As always, we welcome any topics that you would like to discuss. Bring a lightning talk if you're interested in speaking, and if you're not then just suggest the topic...

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Phil Japikse will be presenting this week and leading the group in some hands-on exercises. Phil is coming up from Cincinnati, Ohio for the meeting, so we're hoping to have a solid turnout this week, as it should be a great event. Most recently, Phil presented at CodeMash (last week) on Mocks, Stubs...

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As software craftsmen, we are always striving to create software that is well-crafted and maintainable. Toward this end, we put a great deal of effort into practicing our skills as a community as well as on our own. We learn to refactor code such that we can increase the value of our software over time...

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HudsonSC and NimblePros are putting together a FREE one-day event in Cleveland on July 16th (immediately followed by the Cleveland Give Camp if you’re interested in that as well). You can learn more and register online here: http://swe101cleveland.eventbrite.com/ Please spread the word –...

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