Practice & Work

Gregg Pollack

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Oct 27, 2009, 9:31:38 PM10/27/09

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Hey guys,

If there is one thing that has become clear after going to the conferences I have over the past month, it's that in our profession nobody gets enough "practice". A musician needs to continually practice their instrument, but rarely do we hear about people coding for the sake of practice. We had Corey Haines come show us how to do a code kata, which is one way to focus our skills, but I'm wondering if there is something more we can do as a users group to further focus our skills.

Having a presentation every month is informative, but it's definitely not as educational as spending an hour to work through a code kata. So I want to gauge interest in maybe having a few ORUG meetings (next year) which maybe focus on polishing programming skills. Thoughts?

Lastly, I'm wondering if anyone is looking for Ruby / Rails development work. Please email me off list if you have availability and you can come and work down at CoLab with EnvyLabs. We'd totally be open to an Intern position if you're someone who is looking to break into doing Ruby/Rails development, but you haven't done any production apps yet.

Thanks,

Gregg Pollack

Tim Rosenblatt

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Oct 28, 2009, 9:10:49 AM10/28/09

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I approve of improving skills.

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Greg Pederson

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Oct 28, 2009, 11:42:35 AM10/28/09

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I also like this idea. Not only can it be practice, but also
collaboration should foster knowledge sharing.

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Jacob Swanner

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Oct 28, 2009, 2:02:47 PM10/28/09

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i'm game, sounds like a good idea.

Justin Blake

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Oct 28, 2009, 6:06:01 PM10/28/09

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Same here.

On Oct 28, 9:10 am, Tim Rosenblatt <t...@timrosenblatt.com> wrote:
> I approve of improving skills.
>

caike

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Nov 5, 2009, 11:05:55 AM11/5/09

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How about Coding Dojo meetings every other week ?

No presentations, just coding.

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Gregg Pollack

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Nov 5, 2009, 11:41:39 AM11/5/09

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I dig that idea... Lets talk about implementation at the next ORUG. =)

caike

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Nov 13, 2009, 12:45:41 AM11/13/09

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Hi, guys!

I've just created a group so we can talk about our upcoming Coding Dojo sessions.