[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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> 2. 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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> >> 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?
> > >
> > > 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.
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> 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
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> James
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