<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Actually, a group of us have started doing these at Union Pacific. We meet every day first thing in the morning and go through a kata.</DIV>
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<DIV>We've been doing the Bowling Kata from Bob Martin and sometimes the prime factors one as well. I find it very helpful and it's a good way to start the day. It's been successful enough that it is being turned into an official class to be offered in June!</DIV>
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<DIV>Kata's certainly are not bound to any particular language -- or any subject for that matter.</DIV>
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<DIV>When is the next meeting?</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers,</DIV>
<DIV>Michael<BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 4/21/10, Jay Hannah <I><jhannah@omnihotels.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Jay Hannah <jhannah@omnihotels.com><BR>Subject: [Omaha.pm] "Coding Kata" coding challenges<BR>To: omaha-pm@pm.org, odynug@googlegroups.com<BR>Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 1:19 PM<BR><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This looks pretty slick at a glance. Not sure how tightly bound to Java* it is:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> http://codingkata.org/</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Any interest in hackathon-ing one of these (randomly chosen?) during an upcoming meeting?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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