Dear Reader,
This is the last of my CodeWorks 09 posts. For those of you looking for the slides from my talks, I just wanted to point you to my new Talks page. It is where I will archive my slides for all conferences, starting with CodeWorks.
Each time I give a talk, it changes a little so I will upload the new version and mark them with the conference name and year.
Until next time,
I <3 |<
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Dear Reader,
Well CodeWorks 09 is over and I’ve mostly recovered. (I still have a bit of a cold that I picked up in NYC but other than that, I’ve recovered) I did a total of 24 sessions across 7 cities and enjoyed every one of them. Each city was different and it’s impossible for me to pick one as my favorite. So I’m going to list my favorite memory from each city.
Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: 14
Cities left: 0
Miles Traveled: 9,677
Cups of Coffee: 23
Current Current City: New York, NY
New friends made while on the Codeworks tour: hundreds
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Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: 12
Cities left: 1
Miles Traveled: 9,472
Cups of Coffee: 18
Current Current City: Washington DC
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Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: 10
Cities left: 2
Miles Traveled: 7,987
Cups of Coffee: 14
Current Current City: Miami
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Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: 8
Cities left: 3
Miles Traveled: 7,324
Cups of Coffee: 12
Current Current City: Atlanta
Bags left on the hotel shuttle: 1
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Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: 6
Days till I see the Lovely and Talented Kathy:1
Cities left: 4
Miles Traveled: 7,062
Cups of Coffee: 7
Current Current City: Dallas
Number of Taxicabs “redecorated” by conference speakers: 1
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Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: 4
Days till I see the Lovely and Talented Kathy:3
Cities left: 5
Miles Traveled: 5,823
Cups of Coffee: 5
Current Current City: Los Angeles
Price of a double shot of Jack Daniels in LA: $25
Price of a bottle of Jack Daniels in Nashville: $20
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Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: 2
Days till I see the Lovely and Talented Kathy:05
Cities left: 6
Miles Traveled: 5,486
Cups of Coffee: 2
Current Current City: San Francisco
Length of time it takes to walk someone through rebooting a Linux server hosted on SliceHost over the phone: 2 minutes (Assuming they don’t lock the account trying to guess your password first. If they do, add 5 minutes)
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Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: 0
Days till I see the Lovely and Talented Kathy:07
Cities left: 7
Miles Traveled: 0
Cups of Coffee: 0
Current Current City: Utrecht
Number of takes for me to get a video right while sitting at a table with the waitresses all staring at me: 2
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Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: -1
Days till I see the Lovely and Talented Kathy:08
Cities left: 7
Miles Traveled: 0
Cups of Coffee: 0
Current Current City: Utrecht
Average number of cups of coffee per day that I drink at a conference: 4
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Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: -2
Days till I see the Lovely and Talented Kathy:09
Cities left: 7
Miles Traveled: 0
Cups of Coffee: 0
Current Current City: Utrecht
Number of sessions I will actually deliver on the CodeWorks 09 tour: 27
Hey, it was Friday night. Of course I didn’t do any prep work. :) I did watch “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” though. It was a big old ball of Meh. Even Kristen Bell and Mila Kunis couldn’t save this one.
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Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: -3
Days till I see the Lovely and Talented Kathy:10
Cities left: 7
Miles Traveled: 0
Cups of Coffee: 0
Current Current City: London
Number of “Random Statistics” that I have waiting to be published: 0
I did no prep work directly last night as I spent the evening with Yair Spitzer and Paul Wander, the heads of Ibuildings UK. On top of a great meal, we had one of the most interesting conversations I’ve had in a long time. I am however, starting to “get my head in the game” so to speak. My downtime these days is spent refining my presentations and practicing them in snippets instead of all at once.
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Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: -4
Days till I see the Lovely and Talented Kathy:11
Cities left: 7
Miles Traveled: 0
Cups of Coffee: 0
Current Current City: London
People who have seen me practice “Design Patterns”: 2
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Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: -5
Days till I see the Lovely and Talented Kathy:12
Cities left: 7
Miles Traveled: 0
Cups of Coffee: 0
Current Current City: London
Total number of pictures in both of my CodeWorks 09 slide decks: 3
I did very little prep work for CodeWorks 09 last night. Like most programmers I know, I have to maintain the network at my house. Unlike most programmers I know, for me, this involves ssh and remote Desktop from half way around the world. The Lovely and Talented Kathy needed Samba setup and working on our development server so she could start building out a new project. I fought with the firewall for about an hour (APF) before I read the entire conf.apf file. It turns out that while I was opening the right ports in the firewall, APF has an override BLACKLIST of ports and Samba’s ports were in that list. I did find out that there is very little in the way of documentation for APF with regards to Samba.
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