[Chirb] April meetup

[David Chelimsky]

2009/3/26 Dave Giunta <dgiunta at mac.com>:
> I would certainly be interested in another Dojo, though with David out, we
> may fall all over ourselves and totally screw everything up. Regardless, I'd
> be down for sticking around with some people after Renzo's presentation with
> a projector and a problem to solve.
> I'd also be interested to hear if David had any thoughts specifically about
> what he might do differently at the next Dojo, so that we might try and give
> that a shot in his absence.

Whatever failure occurred in the last dojo was mine alone. The
software problem was one that spiked in complexity quite suddenly.
While that is a natural occurrence in daily practice, combined with
the pressure of 5 minute time-boxes and the fact that this was our
first time out, that was a mistake. We should revisit that in 6
months, after we've been doing this for a while.

In terms of advice, I'd say pick a well known problem, like Uncle
Bob's bowling kata, and have everybody practice it beforehand. That
takes the surprise out of solving the problem, and lets the dojo focus
on technique, which is really the point of the dojo metaphor.

HTH,
David

> Thoughts?
> Dave Giunta
> On Mar 25, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Josh Cronemeyer wrote:
>
> Renzo,
>
> Thanks for getting the ball rolling!  Sounds like interesting stuff.  With
> david out for April, perhaps we could take a month off from the Dojo and
> hear what renzo is up to.  How does that sound to people?  If I don't hear
> any complaints I'll update the website with renzo's presentation tomorrow.
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> chicagogroup-members-list-bounces at rubyforge.org wrote on 03/25/2009 11:22:28
> AM:
>
>> Hello Chirbers,
>>
>> if nothing else's going on for April 6 (that's the Monday right?) I'd
>> like to talk you about MacRuby and my experience writing Pomodori, a
>> tool for the PT (Pomodoro Technique). Let me know,
>>
>> Renzo => http://reborg.net
>> AgilePartners => http://www.agilepartners.com
>> Pomodori => http://reborg.github.com/pomodori
>> PT => http://www.pomodorotechnique.com
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