I like Global days of Coderetreat. This is a perfect opportunity to practice pair programming, polish your skills and share your experience and thoughts with other programmers. Usually, this is an event that consists only of pair programming sessions. But this year, it was something different and I want to reflect on it and share my thoughts.

Usually, I try to attend interesting events in the city. It broadens my horizons and helps me to keep up with the industry. However, it’s hard to find time for all of them. A recent event, organized by the Barcelona JUG, was an event that you literally couldn’t miss. That was a talk by Victor Rentea - “Code Smells: Hall of Fame”.