[LRUG] Chat Digest, Vol 41, Issue 8

Alex Young alex at blackkettle.org
Wed Jun 10 15:26:53 PDT 2009


Gerhard Lazu wrote:
> I for one would love to see a tips&tricks section at LRUG. For example:
> 
> * this is how we do our caching on our X app
> * this is how we test multiple git branches in CI
> * this is how we deploy our app to EC2 or
> * use a CDN for our most popular files
> 
> Also, having a troubleshooting section would be great. Each of us come 
> across various weird scenarios which aren't covered anywhere, even the 
> mailing lists or Google discussion groups don't help. For example, our 
> team has seen peculiarities with Passenger and Apache that we've been 
> trying to troubleshoot for weeks now. This is a scalability issue, but 
> getting pointers as how to approach the issue would be greatly helpful 
> and welcome.
> 
> So, do you think this could work?

There's a way of tackling this that I've been to with the Alt.NET bunch 
before now, called Open Space Coding. The way it works there is to split 
up into groups of 8 or so people who are all interested in a specific 
problem or subject. They then tackle that and only that in whatever 
format works best for that group and that subject, be that a round-table 
discussion, dojo, pairs, or just everyone hacking on their own and 
pushing to a central repository every so often, maybe scribbling on a 
whiteboard for reference.

The first thing done was to get everyone in a room (there were about 30 
of us, from memory) and get session ideas up on post-it notes to be 
voted on.

I've got no idea if this is practical, but it worked well enough I 
thought I'd get the idea out there.

-- 
Alex



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>       1. Re: Looking at the July LRUG (and also THE FUTURE (well,
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>     Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:56:16 +0100
>     From: Abdel A Saleh <abdel.a.saleh at gmail.com
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>     Subject: Re: [LRUG] Looking at the July LRUG (and also THE FUTURE
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>      >> Ruby influences night: presenting things from other languages (perl,
>     smalltalk, lisp) that have made it into ruby
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>     I very much like the sound of that :-) +1
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>     2009/6/10 Roland Swingler <roland.swingler at gmail.com
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>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > I like the idea of a Dojo if it can work with that number of people.
>      > Probably a good idea to try and find someone who has run one
>     before if
>      > we do that.
>      >
>      > On a related note - how about a "code clinic" type of event? People
>      > bring in code to be criticised and refactored: one of the things I
>      > personally miss when working on side projects & libraries is any sort
>      > of peer review/feedback. Again I've no idea if this would work with a
>      > larger group.
>      >
>      > Thinking about the dynamic languages event happening tonight, another
>      > idea would be a Ruby influences night: presenting things from other
>      > languages (perl, smalltalk, lisp) that have made it into ruby.
>      >
>      > R
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>      > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Peter Ferne<subs at petef.com
>     <mailto:subs at petef.com>> wrote:
>      > > One possible idea is to run a Dojo.
>      > >
>      > > +1, but I too don't know how well they work at scale.
>      > >
>      > > ...there are other things we can try: a discussion panel,
>      > >
>      > > -3, I loathe panels.
>      > >
>      > > a different type of practical style evening, lightning talks,
>     um ...
>      > other
>      > > stuff?
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>      > > 0, open to other ideas.
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>     2009/6/10 Abdel A Saleh <abdel.a.saleh at gmail.com
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>      >>>?Ruby influences night: presenting things from other?languages
>     (perl,
>      >>> smalltalk, lisp) that have made it into ruby
>      > I very much like the sound of that :-) +1
> 
>     I too think it's a great idea, but is it something we can actually put
>     on? Do we have members with enough experience in other languages to
>     present? If so, make yourselves known, along with the traitorous
>     language that you could/would talk about, and we can probably make a
>     reasonable night of it.
> 
>     In general, I think it would be great to try and do something
>     different. I would definitely be interested in a coding dojo, but
>     probably don't know quite enough about them to run one successfully.
>     I'll wrack my brains for other ideas too
> 
>     James
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