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Write Something

12 Apr 2013

Ok so here I go. I don’t write often bucase inspiration comes at the most inopportune times. I always want to write something when I’m in the car or worse the bathroom. I thought I would force myself today. This is for two people. One I’ve known for a long time and record a podcast with. The other I just met, but we have a razor and a love of Ruby in common. I told one of them I would give a pomodoro a go.

You see, recently I attended the best damn ruby conference anywhere. During that conference speaker @wikimatze talked about giving back to OSS by doing one pomodoro every day. That got me thinking about all kinds of things to use pomodor’s for.

Lately my back has been killing me, and I sit in a chair focused for hours. I thought about calling Lisa Nowak for some advice on how to hang in there for the long haul. Then I decided to apply the pomodoro to my back problem. I work for the 20 minutes and then go for a walk during the 5 minute breaks. Not only does this help strengthen my back, but I don’t have to wear diapers. I also spend that time thinking about the next step. I really think it has helped me focus and gives my mind a time to make sure I’m on the right path. Sometimes it is hard to notice how dark the road is unless you look up.

Then I thought about this blog. Anyone who has ever read this blog in the past will know how ugly it was. Ok, so it is still ugly if you are reading this in a timely manner (or maybe even if you are reading this a year from now). It is a vast improvement, trust me. I’d like to include a screen shot, but I’m too lazy and with priorities this article really isn’t worth an extra pomodoro. So I spent a few pomodors on the look and feel of this horrible site.

I then spent a pomodoro setting up a new Ruby user group. I am now organizing two groups, PJ would be proud or think I’m crazy. You see I organize STLRuby because I’ve worked 108 miles from my home for 6.5 years. Recently I started working remotely for The Able Few . This puts me closer to home and has allowed me to start Rolla Ruby . I’m so excited to be able to get this going. I’ve wanted this for a while, but haven’t had the time with all the driving. There is a university in Rolla, not where I live but close, that I went to for my CS Degree. It had a much better name when I went there. I want to reach out to the CS students there and get them into testing before they hit the real world and have to be taught there. Maybe one of them will speak at a future Ruby Midwest

Well, my time is up. Sorry the muse didn’t find me today, but I’ll be back I can promise you another pomodor of that.

The Past

• Testing Named Agents 03 Feb 2017
• Two Duplication Refactorings in Elixir 18 Jan 2017
• B is for BigDecimal 24 Sep 2014
• A is for Abbrev 02 Sep 2014
• Missed Chances 15 Aug 2014
• Style Guides are Failures 15 Jun 2014
• What is BDD anyway? 15 Apr 2014
• An Agile Contract 31 Mar 2014
• What Do I Want 23 Mar 2014
• Just the Tip 16 Mar 2014
• Important Partnerships 11 Mar 2014
• Lost in Translation 03 Mar 2014
• Story Splitting Revisited 23 Feb 2014
• Let your yes be yes and your no be no 16 Feb 2014
• Lethal Injection 09 Feb 2014
• Smaller is Better 02 Feb 2014
• A Second Time 26 Jan 2014
• Introspective 20 Jan 2014
• Self Reflection for the Win 06 Dec 2013
• Why? Why? Why? 30 Sep 2013
• A New Gig 18 Sep 2013
• Exceptional Comments 15 Jun 2013
• Role Objects in Acceptance Tests 30 Apr 2013
• Open Closed Ruby Woes 28 Apr 2013
• Write Something 12 Apr 2013
• A Great Cast of Characters 06 Mar 2012
• When is the Release Party? 19 Aug 2011
• Single Responsibilty, How Did I Forget You 12 Apr 2011
• Change Classes not Styles 05 Nov 2010
• My MongoDB Cookbook Recipe 20 Jul 2010
• Agile Says What? 05 Nov 2009
• Inject & Me - BFFs 07 Sep 2008