Going where no one has gone before is hard.
Going where people have gone before is hard enough.
How do you get there?
Lets spy at the crew of the USS Enterprise for a few moments. In a typical episode we start out calmly enough, then something happens. The Romulans, Klingons, Borg or whatever show up and start wrecking havoc. It is almost always a dire situation. Life and death for all aboard the ship, an entire planet or even the entire human race. What happens next? The command crew assembles and comes up with a brilliant plan. Every thing is going to be ok, they have a plan. All of the details are worked out. Every one knows what they are to do. It is all going to be better now. It is time. Time for the Captain to give the order.
Engage!
The order must be given. All the planning is worthless unless you engage the project. Get moving and "make it so" (another of the captains tag lines)
So who is giving you the order? Who is giving me the order? Are you going to "Engage" or just sit back and watch the universe go by?
You are your own captain, you have to make things happen. Make you plan. Plot your course and Engage!
This is part two of my micro series inspired by GR Testers pop culture lightning talks night. Watch out for the final chapter coming soon.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
GR Testers - Lightning Talk
GR Testers is a Software Testing group based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. On May 9, 2011 we hosted a round of lightning talks. The talks centered around pop culture references we had talks referencing books, television shows and movies. My talk referred to the Back To The Future series of movies. I have recreated the talk and recorded as was recommended by someone the night of the talks. This version runs about ten minutes, I do not know how long the original was. It is surprising how short five minutes really is the first attempts at recording this came in much longer.
Enjoy: http://www.hopasaurus.com/bttf_lightning_talk.mp3
Also look for two more blog posts inspired by the pop culture references: "Engage: what we can learn from Jean-Luc Picard" and something inspired by Ferris Beuller's Day Off. (Coming Soon)
Enjoy: http://www.hopasaurus.com/bttf_lightning_talk.mp3
Also look for two more blog posts inspired by the pop culture references: "Engage: what we can learn from Jean-Luc Picard" and something inspired by Ferris Beuller's Day Off. (Coming Soon)
Monday, January 24, 2011
Grand Rapids Perl Mongers - Coming up Friday 28th
When: Friday January 28th at 11:30am
Where: "The Factory"
What:
We will be participating in a group coding Kata, transforming "The Factory"
into a coding dojo. The Kata practiced will be doing PragDave's Kata number 4, it may be helpful to practice, but not required. Please bring a laptop if you have one available, we will be practicing in pairs so do not worry if you have no laptop.
A link to the details:
Please RSVP with your pizza and pop preferences and number attending to dave@hopasaurus.com
Watch for an update and parking information to come out on Wednesday.
For more information on "The Factory" see http://workthefactory.com/
Parking information:
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same but tiny: http://tinyurl.com/yeg5u7l
"Monroe Center 2 Ramp" looks good if you are just coming for the meeting, the lot between Ottawa, Ionia, Louis and Monroe center features first hour free and $1.00 per half hours after however there is no daily max. See the link above for more options and directions.
May be card only "Arena Area Lot 3" looks great for all day with a $3.00 daily max. Expect it to fill up quick it is located near Fulton and Weston.
May be card only The "Ottawa & Fulton Ramp" between Ottawa, Ionia, Fulton and Louis seems good if you will be there all day and the Arena Lot 3 is full ($9.00 max).
Hopefully this helps, but I usually end up circling around several times, get irritated and find the next thing I see.
Other area events of interest:
GRLug Monday January 24th at 6:00pm
Al Tobey will be talking about Linux at scale, start with infrastructure as code and devops but cover a lot more than just those areas.
See: grlug.org
Grand Rapids Software Testers February 16th at 6:30pm
GrWebDev Monday, January 31st at 5:30pm
See @grwebdev on Twitter for more information.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Grand Rapids Perl Mongers, October 2010
Two Grand Rapids Perl Mongers meetings in a row!
Thank you to Priority Health for sponsoring the food. Thank you to the attendees for chipping in on the venue.
It was good to see everyone again. Thank you to Tod for presenting a lot of good information about Devel::Cover with details on how it was integrated into an existing project.
It was also interesting to learn so much about buttons, quite fascinating in fact.
We have made plans extending into 2011 here are some of the preliminary details:
November 19, 2010 at Priority Health (pending reservation) David Hoppe presents ??? watch the list for details.
December 30, 2010 (Thursday) Social meeting at a restaurant, with proposed round table discussion on "Real World Perl" discuss what you use Perl for at work, life and play. This meeting may be a later meeting (with the idea being skip work the rest of the year), be sure to watch the list for details.
January 28, 2011 at The Factory - Real time Kata practice. We will work either as a group or in pairs to run through a Kata. This will be great way to kick off the year.
Join the Grand Rapids Perl Mongers list and you will get advanced notice for the next meeting: http://grand-rapids.pm.org/ About two thirds of the way down look for "Mailing Lists" Join today!
Thank you to Priority Health for sponsoring the food. Thank you to the attendees for chipping in on the venue.
It was good to see everyone again. Thank you to Tod for presenting a lot of good information about Devel::Cover with details on how it was integrated into an existing project.
It was also interesting to learn so much about buttons, quite fascinating in fact.
We have made plans extending into 2011 here are some of the preliminary details:
November 19, 2010 at Priority Health (pending reservation) David Hoppe presents ??? watch the list for details.
December 30, 2010 (Thursday) Social meeting at a restaurant, with proposed round table discussion on "Real World Perl" discuss what you use Perl for at work, life and play. This meeting may be a later meeting (with the idea being skip work the rest of the year), be sure to watch the list for details.
January 28, 2011 at The Factory - Real time Kata practice. We will work either as a group or in pairs to run through a Kata. This will be great way to kick off the year.
Join the Grand Rapids Perl Mongers list and you will get advanced notice for the next meeting: http://grand-rapids.pm.org/ About two thirds of the way down look for "Mailing Lists" Join today!
Friday, September 24, 2010
Grand Rapids Perl Mongers meeting.
Just had our first Grand Rapids Perl Mongers meeting in over a year. It was great to see many familiar faces. It was good to meet all the people who came for the first time.
Matt Huesser gave a ton of good information about quick ways to test applications. Also tips on getting the best rates for parking at the airport, park for six year and get the seventh free!!
The next meeting has been scheduled for October 29 where we will hear about Devel::Cover. The venue for the next meeting will depend on the number of participants, "The Factory" worked great today, but if we get a better turn out we may have to look elsewhere.
Matt Huesser gave a ton of good information about quick ways to test applications. Also tips on getting the best rates for parking at the airport, park for six year and get the seventh free!!
The next meeting has been scheduled for October 29 where we will hear about Devel::Cover. The venue for the next meeting will depend on the number of participants, "The Factory" worked great today, but if we get a better turn out we may have to look elsewhere.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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