Diversify your Toolbox

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Diversify your Toolbox

• Mark Hutchinson
• Raleigh Code Camp 2014
• aikimark1955_at_gmail.com
• Articles e-e.com/members/aikimark.html

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Introduction about Mark

• Ive been at this a loooong time
• Ive worn many different hats
• Ive started user groups and served in leadership
  roles
• I am aikimark on Experts-Exchange.com
• Writing articles and presenting sessions is a way
  to give back to the community

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Introduction -- this presentation

• Landslides, snow slides, and avalanches
• Like the Ig Nobel prizes
• PSA
• No depth to any of the subjects
• Schedule
• Law of Requisite Variety
• Your toolbox is your grey matter (patterns)
• Butorthopedic surgeons

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It starts with requirements

• Embrace your inner Luntz
• Restating the obvious
• Reframing (NLP)
• Mirroring (NLP)
• Stating the implied and assumed
• Stating their negatives
• Can you play ignorant like Stephen Colbert?

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Presentation Skills

• Yes. I know you can do it, but can you teach it?
• Writing and speaking - the other half of
  communication
• Documentation
• Public speaking
• Synthesizing meaning and packaging it for others
  to consume

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SDLC and other TLAs

• Waterfall
• Agile
• Toyoda
• Kanban Just-In-Time production
• Lean
• XP eXtreme Programming (paired)
• TDD Test-Driven Development
• BDD Behavior-Driven development

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Deep dives -- discover the sea-bottom dwellers

• Going well below the surface of the .Net
  namespaces
• On your way, look left and right. Feel free to
  get distracted as long as the distraction is
  something new, unfamiliar, strange.
• Regular Expressions
• Query languages

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What lies beyond the horizon What lies around
the bend

• CSS Cascading Style Sheets
• HTML5 HyperText Markup Lang. v5
• Javascript
• NoSQL databases

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One of these things is not like the otheror is
it?!?

• Scripting Languages
• Javascript
• Python
• Ruby
• Batch
• Powershell
• Lua

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Lambda junction, what's my function?

• Lambda Expressions and Functional Programming
• F
• Powershell
• Clojure Lisp and Haskell descendent (JVM)
• Scala functionally wraps Java
• OCaml influenced F
• SML Standard Modular Language
• Haskell influenced by SML
• Erlang used in telecom from Sweden
• Lisp LISt Processing
• XQuery/XSL

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Data - without it, our code is meaningless

• Design Development Dictionaries
• And there's so much of it
• What does it all mean, anyway?
• Encoding

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And now for something different

• Games
• What would your mind do if the rules changed with
  each play? (Calvin Ball)
• These arent your childhood games
• Improv
• Yesand
• Puzzles
• Puzzle books are cheap
• Online versions

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Things You Should Have Learned In School (Had
You Been Paying Attention)

• or had you been a Comp Sci major
• State Machines
• Graphs Trees
• Algorithms, such as A
• Stacks
• Hashing Hash Tables
• Parsing
• Sorting
• Grammars (BNF)

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Conclusion, part 1

• Make the prototype
• Be the prototype
• Allow yourself to fail
• Allow yourself to join a fail-fast project
• Wear different hats
• Curiosity might 'kill the cat' but lack of
  curiosity can kill your career
• Break your code before your user does
• Try the Seven New Languages in Seven Weeks
  challenge

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Conclusion, part 2

• Watch some videos
• Add a science/tech stream to your daily read
• Join a trivia team
• Go to different meetups and user groups
• Engage different developers/occupations in
  conversation
• Be the designer
• Be the architect
• Play games

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Books

• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Programming Your Wetware
• Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
• Code Complete

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User Groups and Meetups

• TriNUG SIGS - data, F, web, mobile, Office
• RTP Agile -- main meeting and lunches
• Toastmasters Improv Groups
• DevOps
• Stacked
• Functional programming
• Research Triangle Analysts
• Triangle Python user group
• Julia meetup
• Big Data meetups
• Code for America/Raleigh/Durham,/Cary
• RavenDB -gt NoSQL (possibly becoming a TriNUG SIG)
• MongoDB
• Graph databases
• Clojure

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Thank You

• Questions?
• Repeat presentation at the TriMOUG meetup (Nov
  18)
• Mark Hutchinson
• aikimark1955_at_gmail.com
• Articles e-e.com/members/aikimark.htmland on my
  LinkedIn profile