[Wellington-pm] Meeting next Tuesday

Tai Paul tai at pplus.co.nz
Mon Sep 8 21:02:52 PDT 2014


Hello Mongers,

Although I'm not available tonight I'm happy to do a talk for the
October/November meeting.  The talk would not be specifically on Perl and
would be aimed at your general approach to programming which I imagine you
may find enlightening.

Amongst one of many things I spent time learning on my life's journey was
about how to debug the brain.  If you've ever found yourself hitting
programmer's block, or analysis paralysis then you might find this talk will
cause you to lift your ability as a programmer. 

I'd be happy to do an introductory talk titled something like 'Debugging the
Brain' or 'Fixing The "Real" Computer' or perhaps 'Tuning Where it Really
Counts'.

Think about it this way.  Before a bug can make it into a program that
you've written, or a deadline is missed, or you over promise and under
deliver, or even under promise and over deliver, ... you must have thought
something.  Now just talking about bugs, if you regularly face the same
types of bugs, or the same number of bugs, or you experience that same and
familiar feeling of uncertainty whilst writing your program then there's a
bug in your mental process.
 
In the session you would hear about some models of thinking and how you can
track down these bugs (perhaps you can call them thoughts or habits or
beliefs or limiting decisions) and you can learn one (of many) techniques to
change it, possibly even eliminate it forever.

If this sounds like something that would, if not life changing, be something
you'd like to know more about then let me know by reply and I'll put
something together.

Thanks for considering this thought.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wellington-pm [mailto:wellington-pm-bounces+tai=pplus.co.nz at pm.org] On
Behalf Of Grant McLean
Sent: Wednesday, 3 September 2014 10:17 a.m.
To: Wellington Perl Mongers
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting next Tuesday

Hi Mongers

The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers will be next Tuesday the 9th of
September:

    6:00pm Tuesday 9 September 2014
    Level 3, Catalyst House
    150 Willis Street
    Wellington

Raf is going to do his Moose Testing talk at the October meeting so we don't
have any talks scheduled for this month yet.  Let me know if you'd like to
speak.

In other news ...

NZ's annual Python conference 'Kiwi Pycon' is being held in Wellington this
year from Fri Sep 12th to Sun the 14th (just over a week away).  At
$100 a ticket it's a bargain and they have even cheaper prices for students.

On Friday evening (the 12th) there will be a 'Codewars' event at the
conference.  This is a fun, team-based programming competition (Python not
compulsory) and since they asked me to organise it, I'm reusing the
'HackOff' format previously used at Wellington.pm and LCA.  More details
here:

  http://kiwi.pycon.org/events/codewars/

Hopefully we'll see some of you at Pycon and Codewars.

Cheers
Grant


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