I have thought about this for way to long. I need to start writing things down quicker. I do not mean faster on the keyboard, but quicker from my brain. I have a co-worker that I am meeting with on a weekly basis to work on improving engineering practices, team practices and just better all-around software development stuff. His name is Mr. Righter... Matt, for short. Here is a link to his blog.
Matt has worked with our company for approx. a year. He is pretty new in his career, but doesn't lack the passion or skill (both technical and personal), to be a great software developer. One of the 'things' I am responsible for... at least that I feel I am responsible for is uplift and mentorship. Matt and I came up with an idea to start meeting weekly to talk, code, blog, whatever each week in trying to make each other better.
We started this exercise a couple weeks back. So far, we haven't missed a week and we have completed two katas and changed our plans a couple of times. Which is good. As expected. For me, this weekly meeting is pushing me to think about coding something different each week and thinking about how I work to share with Matt.
This is the introductory post to get me started on blogging on a more frequent basis.
Please check out our katas on github @ matt's repository. I have posted my kata solutions within his repository.
https://github.com/MattieBoy/Intrepid.git
As a note... I will continue to blog often and I will try to remember to put the tag, #WEEKLYKATA on each post.