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github summit fall 2012 hubot ignite talk
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'github-campfire'
def ask_for_image(phrase)
`growlnotify -m "#{phrase}"`
GitHub::Campfire.notify("/img me #{phrase}", GitHub::Campfire::HUBOT)
end
phrases = [
'hubot ignite', # new presentation style
'rick bradley', # joined june 25th as a ruby programmer on dot com, rubyist, etc.; codez, also MIDIz, and the redacted room
'bourbon capital of the world', # born in bardstown, ky -- home of ...; every year in mid-september the ky bourbon fest
'nashville', # I live in nashville, tn; home of country music, honky-tonks, hot chicken, the crunkest fish in town; I also play blues harp and have been in some shitty bands and wouldn't mind being in shittier bands
'occupy this', # got arrested for occupy nashville; that was cool, also a good exposure to self-organizing teams working under non-hierarchical (aka anarchist) principles
'ruby hoedown', #5 - also, home to the ruby hoedown, which @jm runs as a free ruby conference, awesome after-party at my house
'india', # past 3 years I've spent 7 months travelling in india, top to bottom, east to west, dye artisans, gandhi sites, tibetan buddhists; would love to go back
'vipassana meditation', # in gujarat 2 1/2 years ago learned vipassana meditation at a 10-day silent course; now meditate 1-3 hours a day; am ordering a mat for the office
'gethsemane', # I'm going to the kona house to hack && ship; then headed to gethsemane for a 5-day self retreat
'mindfulness in plain english', #10 - anyone interested in getting started with meditation, download this book, let's talk
'OGC', # I came here as part of OG consulting, with kevin vinbarnes barnes, and yossef ymendel mendelssohn; kevin is in nashvill, yossef is in phillie due to a dance fixation
'emoticon', # OGC was not necessarily "Original Gangsters" of Consulting, though we'd allow it. It was an emoticon.
'rescue missions', # we made our loot on rescue projects
'social problems', # while we needed technical skills, all the interesting problems are social -- workflows, code visibility, knowledge transfer, shitty management, fucked processes, etc.
'github rules', # 15 at github 90% of the difficulties we'd see on our projects just aren't problems here
'bugs tell us', # in some of the rescues we looked at the bug list first and learned that we could tell some surprisingly specific things about mis-modeled and mis-implemented software just by reading through issues;
# at github halp is telling us there are problems that we are too close to day-to-day to see ; orgs/users/accounts/billing has a problem that requires stepping back to determine what the issues might be
'domain driven design', # DDD principles (get this book if you haven't already), can help us fix deeper problem areas like this (see also "split .com", "merge this together", "should team be a part of the app")
'make room, fools', # here we need to make room for domain discussions, ubiquitous language, and somehow disseminating clarity about what our conceptual domain really is
'tests are for the future', # we need to supplement tests as we work, as some core areas of the system don't have sufficient coverage to refactor or to detect important breakages; tests are more for the people after you than for you
'fin' # thanks
]
phrases.each do |phrase|
ask_for_image(phrase)
sleep 15
end
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ymendel commented Aug 15, 2012

I know it's chilly, but it's actually technically summer.

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