client: "what's refactoring?"
me: "there's a kind of pink sticky note over there. and it's sort of rectangular."
me: "or i could say"
me: "that is a pink, rectangular post it note"
everyone on my team except me: laughter
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
girls
i'm trying to learn a programming language with a collegue. she's a girl, and programming isn't her day job. it's called python. we have different goals.
she wants to make something that solves problems. i want to be fluent. how do we make it fun for both of us?
is this a recipe for fun?
1 interactive python shell.
1 xmpp client library.
incoming messages are sent to the python shell. a message is concocted in python. a reply is sent. it's like TDD, with people. i hope a conversation would look something like this:
dave>"hello."
sarah>"hello."
dave>"what is 2 times 7?"
sarah>5
dave>"no"
dave>"what is 2 times 7?"
sarah>14
dave>"yes!"
sounds fun to me. hoping the interactivity and the fact that it does something - ie. answers and asks questions, will be enough to satisfy us both. i'm going to try it on one computer without the chat stuff first to see how it goes.
bye.
she wants to make something that solves problems. i want to be fluent. how do we make it fun for both of us?
is this a recipe for fun?
1 interactive python shell.
1 xmpp client library.
incoming messages are sent to the python shell. a message is concocted in python. a reply is sent. it's like TDD, with people. i hope a conversation would look something like this:
dave>"hello."
sarah>"hello."
dave>"what is 2 times 7?"
sarah>5
dave>"no"
dave>"what is 2 times 7?"
sarah>14
dave>"yes!"
sounds fun to me. hoping the interactivity and the fact that it does something - ie. answers and asks questions, will be enough to satisfy us both. i'm going to try it on one computer without the chat stuff first to see how it goes.
bye.
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