[Wellington-pm] Meeting next Tuesday
Tai Paul
tai at pplus.co.nz
Mon Sep 8 21:25:50 PDT 2014
Roger that. Pencil me in.
-----Original Message-----
From: Wellington-pm [mailto:wellington-pm-bounces+tai=pplus.co.nz at pm.org] On
Behalf Of Grant McLean
Sent: Tuesday, 9 September 2014 4:16 p.m.
To: wellington-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [Wellington-pm] Meeting next Tuesday
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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