Jeff and Marty - I'd be very interested in doing a multi-week boot camp sort of program if either of you organize one. I would have done mountain.rb, but I couldn't swing the time off (and most of it would have been over my head at this point). I'm available next week to talk about scheduling possibilities - my preference being either earlier morning or evening hours so I can still work my 9-5...
Thanks! (Mr.) Kelly Ehret On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:41 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Bdrg-members mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Bdrg-members digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR ALL! (Marty Haught) > 2. Re: PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR ALL! (Jeff Sutherland) > 3. Re: PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR ALL! (Joshua Timberman) > 4. Re: PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR ALL! (Bothari) > 5. Re: PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR ALL! (Charley Baker) > 6. Community Ruby Training (Jefferey Sutherland) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:26:00 -0600 > From: Marty Haught <[email protected]> > To: bdrg <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Boulder Ruby Group] PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR > ALL! > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > Open question to anyone in a similar vein. What do we have for training > in the area? I would imagine basic Ruby, Rails, and other training would be > of interest and fairly valuable. > > As far as I know, the only public training available regularly is the > Pragmatic Studio. I fully agree that having some other alternatives > would be very useful. I have even thought about putting something > together as I've done a couple private training sessions but it's a > lot of work. Furthermore, I'm not sure if I want to become a trainer > as sorts but maybe it would be better for the local community if > someone did. > > Now that I don't have conference organizing taking all of my free > time, I could ponder putting together a Ruby Bootcamp program. I was > originally thinking something that met weekly in the evenings and > lasted for around 6 weeks. > > The other thought along this line was to take on an apprentice to work > with me on my next project. Though I would only be willing to take on > one, it would be very beneficial to that one developer. Doing a Ruby > Bootcamp would help more people in a shorter time frame (the > apprenticeship would likely be a 3 month thing). > > Just thinking out loud here. > > Cheers, > Marty > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:55:01 +0000 > From: "Jeff Sutherland" <[email protected]> > To: "bdrg" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Boulder Ruby Group] PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR > ALL! > Message-ID: > > > <746597980-1287813300-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-11376152...@bda444.bisx.prod.on.blackberry > > > > Content-Type: text/plain > > Before I was a full-time Ruby developer, I trained school teachers and > fellow developers in web development (HTML, Javascript and Ruby). It was a > lot of fun, and I'd like to do it again. I would love to help put together > a Ruby Bootcamp. > > - Jeff Sutherland > -----Original Message----- > From: Marty Haught <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:26:00 > To: bdrg<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Boulder Ruby Group] PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR ALL! > > > Open question to anyone in a similar vein. What do we have for training > in the area? I would imagine basic Ruby, Rails, and other training would be > of interest and fairly valuable. > > As far as I know, the only public training available regularly is the > Pragmatic Studio. I fully agree that having some other alternatives > would be very useful. I have even thought about putting something > together as I've done a couple private training sessions but it's a > lot of work. Furthermore, I'm not sure if I want to become a trainer > as sorts but maybe it would be better for the local community if > someone did. > > Now that I don't have conference organizing taking all of my free > time, I could ponder putting together a Ruby Bootcamp program. I was > originally thinking something that met weekly in the evenings and > lasted for around 6 weeks. > > The other thought along this line was to take on an apprentice to work > with me on my next project. Though I would only be willing to take on > one, it would be very beneficial to that one developer. Doing a Ruby > Bootcamp would help more people in a shorter time frame (the > apprenticeship would likely be a 3 month thing). > > Just thinking out loud here. > > Cheers, > Marty > _______________________________________________ > Bdrg-members mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:33:17 -0600 > From: Joshua Timberman <[email protected]> > To: Boulder Ruby <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Boulder Ruby Group] PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR > ALL! > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > As I mentioned at the Boulder Ruby meeting Tuesday, Opscode is also > interested in having Chef/Cloud focused pairing/hacking "cook offs". Please > let me know if you're interested in this! Do note that Opscode is based in > Seattle, and I'm the only one in the Denver/Boulder area. We'll be looking > for space for these cook offs. If you know someone/somewhere that has space > available, also please let me know. > > Pivotal Labs has kindly agreed to offer some space. We're working out the > details but probably sometime in December. Thanks Pivotal! > > > On Oct 22, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Prakash N Murthy wrote: > > > HAPPY CAPSLOCK DAY FOLKS. And now let me switch back to regular case. > > > > Got some terrific feedback for the email I sent earlier querying about > the interest in regular paired programming sessions. There is a lot of > interest from many people to have such sessions, and the general perception > is it is good to have such sessions. Here is Aaron "Tenderlove" Peterson's > advice - via Chad Fowler - during Mountain.rb. So"Promiscuous Pair > Programming for all" will be the mantra for this effort going forward. > > > > Some quick notes relating this topic: > > ? Some people are already pairing even outside of their regular > work; some people are interested in getting to work on specific items with > others. > > ? The Boulder based companies are providing many opportunities for > the local Rubyists to pair: > > ? Dojo4 has the weekly Code-n-coffee event every Wednesday > morning. > > ? QuickLeft plans to organize a once a month hackfest > during the last week of the month. There won't be one this month though as > they just hosted a big hackfest during Mountain.rb. > > ? Pivotal Boulder is planning a Pair-with-a-Pivot-evening > event where a limited number of people (8 + 8) would work on open source > projects or any personal projects, pairing with the Pivots. I am > co-ordinating with Pivotal to organize this sometime in November - more info > later as we thrash out the details. > > ? Foraker Labs is planning a monthly hackfest - tentatively > planned for the second thursday of every month - to start in November or > December. The november date (Thu Nov 11th) is not confirmed yet as it > conflicts with the start of Ruby Conf in New Orleans and many of their staff > will be in New Orleans. > > ? There could probably be more that I am not aware of. > > ? At some point in the next 3-4 months, it would be awesome if we > could organize aCorey Haines' Code Retreat style event in Boulder over one > weekend. I think its best we build up to it by having regular small size > pair programming events at one of the numerous Coffee shops in Downtown > Boulder or at the offices of one of the companies. > > ? I have added a separate sheet to the Regular Pair Programming > sessions in Boulder spreadsheet with a weekly calendar to allow for people > to list their available time for pairing with others. Do add your > availability to the spreadsheet, or inform the person whose paired > programming event you will be joining. > > ? As I mentioned in the spreadsheet, I am planning to be at The Cup > Boulder next week - Monday to Thursday - from 5pm to 8pm; will be useful for > anyone who wants to work on Ruby Koans or try out TDD with Project Euler > problems. > > ? The above spreadsheet seems to be a non-scalable solution for the > kind of promiscuous-pair-programming-for-all scenario I am thinking about - > so am considering building a Heroku-hosted Rails app to manage the regular > paired programming functionality. Aiming to have it up in the next couple of > weeks. > > > > Thanks for reading this rather long email. Do let me know if you have any > feedback on this idea. > > > > Have an awesome weekend. > > > > Cheers, > > Prakash N Murthy > > (347) 228 3993 > > http://twitter.com/_prakash > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bdrg-members mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > > - -- > Opscode, Inc > Joshua Timberman, Technical Evangelist > IRC, Skype, Twitter, Github: jtimberman > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkzCO10ACgkQO97WSdVpzT3MswCffrL/dEgDrw3GPgcxs0VaBiFU > nWAAn01gFN5kaGlUX/OP4oWIcsGIUsF2 > =j3ih > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:09:48 -0600 > From: Bothari <[email protected]> > To: bdrg <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Boulder Ruby Group] PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR > ALL! > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > I taught a week-long class this summer for gifted and talented kids. > We used Ruby Warrior on Ubuntu systems, so a good bit of the material > was too basic for a class like this. However, we used Chris Pine's > Learn To Program book, and it was a big hit. > > Also, to get started we needed a new version of Ruby installed on > every box. Too lazy to it myself, I made a page and had every kid > copy/paste it into a terminal window. It's a great way to get them to > do something, then tell them what they're doing while it's going on. > http://fairanswers.com/cbk/rvm.html > Joe > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Jeff Sutherland > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Before I was a full-time Ruby developer, I trained school teachers and > fellow developers in web development (HTML, Javascript and Ruby). ?It was a > lot of fun, and I'd like to do it again. ?I would love to help put together > a Ruby Bootcamp. > > > > - Jeff Sutherland > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Marty Haught <[email protected]> > > Sender: [email protected] > > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:26:00 > > To: bdrg<[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Boulder Ruby Group] PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR ALL! > > > >> Open question to anyone in a similar vein. What do we have for training > in the area? I would imagine basic Ruby, Rails, and other training would be > of interest and fairly valuable. > > > > As far as I know, the only public training available regularly is the > > Pragmatic Studio. ?I fully agree that having some other alternatives > > would be very useful. ?I have even thought about putting something > > together as I've done a couple private training sessions but it's a > > lot of work. ?Furthermore, I'm not sure if I want to become a trainer > > as sorts but maybe it would be better for the local community if > > someone did. > > > > Now that I don't have conference organizing taking all of my free > > time, I could ponder putting together a Ruby Bootcamp program. ?I was > > originally thinking something that met weekly in the evenings and > > lasted for around 6 weeks. > > > > The other thought along this line was to take on an apprentice to work > > with me on my next project. ?Though I would only be willing to take on > > one, it would be very beneficial to that one developer. ?Doing a Ruby > > Bootcamp would help more people in a shorter time frame (the > > apprenticeship would likely be a 3 month thing). > > > > Just thinking out loud here. > > > > Cheers, > > Marty > > _______________________________________________ > > Bdrg-members mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > > _______________________________________________ > > Bdrg-members mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > > > > > > -- > "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as > ?users?." - Edward Tufte > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:50:58 -0600 > From: Charley Baker <[email protected]> > To: Boulder Ruby <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Boulder Ruby Group] PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR > ALL! > Message-ID: > > <[email protected]<aanlktinh_5iuuecv6vrm%[email protected]> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Definitely something interesting to consider. I've been involved in a > lot of internal company training classes, as well as some external > training at conferences. I've worked with my own material and in the > past year with the Ruby Koans as well. I think it would be a good idea > to have a few people who are willing and able to teach classes > locally. Maybe that's something we can talk about on this list or at a > Bdrg meeting or two, if there's any interest. > > One of my goals in Ruby has been community expansion and involvement. > It would be interesting to talk to some local Java, .Net, and > non-programmers who'd like to learn Ruby. > > Just thinking off the top of my head anyhow. > > Cheers, > > Charley > > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Bothari <[email protected]> wrote: > > I taught a week-long class this summer for gifted and talented kids. > > We used Ruby Warrior on Ubuntu systems, so a good bit of the material > > was too basic for a class like this. ?However, we used Chris Pine's > > Learn To Program book, and it was a big hit. > > > > Also, to get started we needed a new version of Ruby installed on > > every box. ?Too lazy to it myself, I made a page and had every kid > > copy/paste it into a terminal window. ?It's a great way to get them to > > do something, then tell them what they're doing while it's going on. > > http://fairanswers.com/cbk/rvm.html > > Joe > > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Jeff Sutherland > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Before I was a full-time Ruby developer, I trained school teachers and > fellow developers in web development (HTML, Javascript and Ruby). ?It was a > lot of fun, and I'd like to do it again. ?I would love to help put together > a Ruby Bootcamp. > >> > >> - Jeff Sutherland > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Marty Haught <[email protected]> > >> Sender: [email protected] > >> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:26:00 > >> To: bdrg<[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: [Boulder Ruby Group] PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR ALL! > >> > >>> Open question to anyone in a similar vein. What do we have for training > in the area? I would imagine basic Ruby, Rails, and other training would be > of interest and fairly valuable. > >> > >> As far as I know, the only public training available regularly is the > >> Pragmatic Studio. ?I fully agree that having some other alternatives > >> would be very useful. ?I have even thought about putting something > >> together as I've done a couple private training sessions but it's a > >> lot of work. ?Furthermore, I'm not sure if I want to become a trainer > >> as sorts but maybe it would be better for the local community if > >> someone did. > >> > >> Now that I don't have conference organizing taking all of my free > >> time, I could ponder putting together a Ruby Bootcamp program. ?I was > >> originally thinking something that met weekly in the evenings and > >> lasted for around 6 weeks. > >> > >> The other thought along this line was to take on an apprentice to work > >> with me on my next project. ?Though I would only be willing to take on > >> one, it would be very beneficial to that one developer. ?Doing a Ruby > >> Bootcamp would help more people in a shorter time frame (the > >> apprenticeship would likely be a 3 month thing). > >> > >> Just thinking out loud here. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Marty > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bdrg-members mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bdrg-members mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as > > ?users?." - Edward Tufte > > _______________________________________________ > > Bdrg-members mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:33:59 -0600 > From: Jefferey Sutherland <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Community Ruby Training > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > It looks like there is a lot of interest in doing a community ruby training > (or more). Would anyone be available to meet next week to talk about this > and get it off the ground? I'm available Wednesday or Friday evening. We > could meet in Boulder or somewhere in the North Metro area based on where > people are located. > > - Jeff Sutherland > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/bdrg-members/attachments/20101024/ae3c813c/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bdrg-members mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > > End of Bdrg-members Digest, Vol 48, Issue 7 > ******************************************* >
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