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Comments? sacha@sachachua.com

• Emacs learning curve?

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Assumptions

• Mix of Emacs geeks skewed towards people who’ve been using this for a while (after all, takes a certain commitment to come all the way to an Emacs conference!)

Outcomes

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(defun teletype-char (c short-pause long-pause)
  (let ((med-pause (/ (+ long-pause (* 2 short-pause)) 3.0)))
    (cond 
     ((equal c ?.)
      (insert (char-to-string c))
      (sit-for long-pause))
     ((equal c ?,)
      (insert (char-to-string c))
      (sit-for med-pause))
     ((equal c ?\n)

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07/03/2013 09:56:55 Sacha Chua: You made it!
07/03/2013 09:57:07 Sacha Chua: I think you may need to click on the mic icon near the top to enable it, if it isn't enabled yet
07/03/2013 09:57:53 Charo Nuguid: Yeah, I'm having trouble with my mic and anymeeting at the moment. Still figuring out what's wrong.
07/03/2013 09:58:10 Sacha Chua: If you hover over the mic, you can get to the Audio options screen.
07/03/2013 09:58:22 Charo Nuguid: yup. 
07/03/2013 09:58:27 Sacha Chua: Awesome! =)
07/03/2013 09:58:37 Charo Nuguid: Just that anymeeting isn't playing nice with Ubuntu. :D
07/03/2013 09:58:41 Sacha Chua: Oh noes!
07/03/2013 09:59:01 Sacha Chua: I'll keep playing around. Do you have a favourite web conferencing thing?
07/03/2013 09:59:01 Charo Nuguid: Let me try going out and back in again. Must be something with adobe permissions.

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- Skills for learning
  - Identify something to learn
    - Identify a possible gap, opportunity, or goal
    - Identify the next steps towards a goal
    - Identify the next steps from what you know
    - Ask for or receive advice from other people
    - Identify learning concepts based on other resources
    - Recognize learning opportunities
    - Recognize multiple opportunities to learn from the same
      experience

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Retrieves and concatenates Wordpress blog pages, being sure to
# include only the BODY/specified elements from other files
#
# Usage: concat-html.rb URL [css selector for element] [max page number]

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'

sachac

diff --git a/shareadraft.php b/shareadraft.php
index 4db1751..8fd329e 100644
--- a/shareadraft.php
+++ b/shareadraft.php
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ class ShareADraft                {
 		add_action('admin_menu', array($this, 'add_admin_pages'));
 		add_filter('the_posts', array($this, 'the_posts_intercept'));
 		add_filter('posts_results', array($this, 'posts_results_intercept'));
-
+                add_action('add_meta_boxes', array($this, 'add_meta_boxes'));

sachac

diff -u ./term-management-tools/term-management-tools.orig.php ./term-management-tools/term-management-tools.php
--- ./term-management-tools/term-management-tools.orig.php      2013-08-27 13:06:32.000000000 -0400
+++ ./term-management-tools/term-management-tools.php   2013-08-27 13:43:24.000000000 -0400
@@ -175,6 +175,17 @@
                                );
                        }

+                       $term2 = get_term_by('name', $term->name, $new_tax);
+                       if ($term2) {
+                               $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE $wpdb->term_relationships SET term_taxonomy_id=%d WHERE term_taxonomy_id=%d",

sachac

;; Totally untested

(defvar clarissa/beeminder-user "example" "Username for Beeminder service.")
(defvar clarissa/beeminder-token "1234" "Token - get this from https://www.beeminder.com/api/v1/auth_token.json")
(defun clarissa/beeminder-post (goal datapoint)
  (interactive "MGoal: \nMData: \nMToken value: ")
  (let ((url-request-data (json-encode `((value . ,datapoint) (auth_token . ,clarissa/beeminder-token))))   
        (url-request-method "POST")
        (url-request-extra-headers '(("Content Type" . "application/json")))
        (url-mime-encoding-string "identity"))

sachac

(defadvice org-babel-execute:sh (around sacha activate)
  (if (assoc-default :term (ad-get-arg 1) nil)
    (let ((buffer (make-term "babel" (or explicit-shell-file-name
                                         (getenv "ESHELL")
                                         (getenv "SHELL")
                                         "/bin/sh"))))
      (with-current-buffer buffer
        (insert (org-babel-expand-body:generic
             body params (org-babel-variable-assignments:sh params)))

sachac

Title: Taking over the world, two parentheses at a time

How can we get more people to use and love Lisp? Come to this session for practical tips on applied selfishness and community-building, and join in the conspiracy to take over the world (or a reasonable portion thereof). I’ll share some stories from Emacs evangelism, including new tools, beginner-friendly approaches, and the effectiveness of indirect brainwashing.

Bio: Sacha Chua loves getting Emacs to do all sorts of things that boggle casual passers-by. She’s working on more resources for Emacs beginners and enthusiasts, including doodled cheat sheets and interviews with people who are even more into Emacs Lisp than she is (emacslife.com). You can check out her blog at LivingAnAwesomeLife.com or follow her on Twitter (@sachac).