The event was hosted by Table XI, which was right around the corner from 8th Light. The event organizer, Jen Mozen, must have been a psychic because she knew I would get lost, thus she posted signs in front of the building and the elevator to direct us to the place. Although Meetup said 39 people will attend, I think ~15 showed up, which was really nice. It felt a little more intimate. We were able to introduce ourselves and talk about our background. I found a lot of people there are new, which is great. I wish my sisters were here so they can attend. It's a great learning environment.
Jen was nice enough to be extra prepare and things people could work on.
- If this then that - For newbie (it's so cool)
- Pair up to code - For HTML learner, developed by GDI
- sheetsee - extracting google doc to json with javascript
- Or your own project
Although IFFF sounds really interesting, I opted for working on my own application. It's a code review app which allow users to submit their code and for others to review. Chris was nice enough to work with me on it. He showed me a really cool gem called table print which he develops. It prints out your SQL stuffs in a table format.
So instead of it looking like this:
The gem makes it looks like this:
The time Chris spent with me was really useful. I got the basic of take request down. It also reminded me how useful pairing it. It helped me focus on the problem at hand. And when I try to explain the application to Chris and what I wanted to do, I realize I was having a lot of problem because of the way I name things. So I went back home and rename my request to review request and review to review reply. It makes it easier for me to refer to things. Ideally I probably want to do one or two hours of pairing in the morning because that's when my mind easily distracted.
Overall, it was a really nice meetup. I would definitely go again :)
Overall, it was a really nice meetup. I would definitely go again :)
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