January 2010 Agile Perspectives

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January 2010 Agile Perspectives: And the winer of the Zune HD is...

Brendan CaricatureLast week we were at CodeMash 2010 in Sandusky, OH.  I hope those of you who attended enjoyed the event. We hosted a Coding Dojo room at the event where attendees could stop and in try their hand at some coding exercises and katas.

Practicing is important in all fields, and software development is no exception to that rule. I recommend that you check in your area to see if there are local user groups like HudsonSC that focus on becoming better at developing software.

At this point I am sure many of you are wondering who is the lucky winner of the Zune, so I'll delay that no longer.

Sincerely,

Brendan Enrick
Nimble Software Professionals

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