For reasons shrouded in mystery, Ft Worth DNUG was pushed from the 18th to the 25th Now it conflicts with Dallas ASP.net UG. Thankfully, Tim found out about it early enough to let me know, so I gathered my kit from my house, and headed to his for a training session, rather than sit in an empty Justins parking lot.
We were using a site called GITHub tonight which, as you might imagine, interacts with GIT. This means that you can have all your people use a web site as a source repository. Awesome for a distributed development force.
He also introduced a series of short exercises which he called a “Kihon”. These are dills on various common functions inside the .net framework. These are consepts & commands used so commonly by developers that they don’t think about them. Seeing this gave me more hope for getting past the first and highest hurdle of this project. I’ve worked with Tim before, and it is often hard to explain the vast vistas of my ignorance. Clearly he has come to some peace with it, and is less likely to consider it some moral failing on my part.
The first kihon is all about string manipulation. Of the 14, I got 9 done in the time allotted, and 3 of those I made 3 lines of code, where 1 would have sufficed. As I write this, I see that he has updated this file – apparently, one was broken. So, I’ll pull down the most recent version before I repeat it.
