[Wellington-pm] Meeting next Tuesday

[Grant McLean]

Hi Tai

Sounds great - if you can be ready for October I can fit you in :-)

Cheers
Grant

On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 16:02 +1200, Tai Paul wrote:
> 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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