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Hi Mike,
You’re not too late – we’re still going strong, as before, twice every Tuesday at 12:00 and 20:00 UK time. You can use the sign up form (see above in the thread) and we’ll add you to the Discord server. We’ve moved from Slack to Discord.
Cheers,
AlanHi,
That’s exactly the kind of thing we’d enjoy discussing and going through in the Kata. You’d be welcome to get in touch with me through the link SSC posted.
Alternatively you can fill in the kata sign up sheet
– Alan
Ah, maybe you could simplify that a little by not popping the value off the stack when assigning it to the EventVariable like:
| ev | ev := EventVariable new initialValue: 0. ?freeze true: (ev <~ ( (?BackNForth + 1) * ?grainSize )) false: (ev)Yikes. I’ve used the
false: nilexpression a lot in the past kind of assuming it meant “if false don’t do anything”, but now I come to think about it the expression has to return something. It’s always worked fine when I’ve used it but I think I’ve been lucky!I guess a way to use this reliably is to use an EventVariable, assign the new value to the EventVariable in the
true:clause, putnilin thefalse:clause, put a comma after the expression then explicitly return the EventVariable.Something like:
| ev | ev := EventVariable new initialValue: 0. (?freeze true: (ev <+ ( (?BackNForth + 1) * ?grainSize )) false: (nil)), ev.Is that the best way?
Hi Marco,
Yes! There is one tonight Tuesday 5th November (20:00 UTC).
We’re doing one every Monday (12:00 UTC) and every Tuesday (20:00 UTC).
If you sign up using this form I’ll invite you to the kata slack channel.
Cheers,
Alan
Hi David,
Yes it is! We’ve had 53 katas since January. We’re generally having two a week on Monday and Tuesday.
Sorry for the delay getting back to you.
Cheers,
Alan
The next Kyma Kata is Wednesday 13th Feb 2019, 20:00 – 22:00 GMT / UTC.
Sign up here
We had another Kyma Kata last Tuesday (15th January) and it was a blast. I think we all learnt something, I did at least.
We’re doing it again this week! Tuesday 22nd January at 20:00 – 22:00 UCT (& GMT).
Sign up here and I’ll add you to the slack group and email you the link to the hangouts.
We had a Kata last Tuesday (the 8th) and it was excellent. I had a great time and I think we all learnt something.
So we’re doing it again! Next Tuesday, 15th January, 20:00 – 22:00 UCT.
If you’re not already on the email list or slack group sign yourself up using this form and we’ll add you.
Hi Anders,
That’s great! It’s going to be on Tuesday the 8th of January. I just wanted to make sure you got the date right.
We had the inaugural Kata meet-up on Monday. It went really well. Well enough to convince me there’s definitely something here worth pursuing.
There were only a couple of us on the call (Charlie and I). Because there were only a couple of us we didn’t feel we had to stick to the structure and it was more of a collaboration.
What I learnt from the experience:
- I enjoyed it
- I learned heaps in a short time
- It encouraged me to learn about an area (conforming to scales) that I had wanted to for ages but had resisted starting.
- Screensharing really works. There may be better tools than Google Hangouts, but that worked well enough.
- You need 2 hours for this kind of event.
So there’s going to be another!
Tuesday 8th January at 8pm – 10pm GMT/UTC,
Fill in the sign-up form if you want to come:
And if that event goes well this will probably turn into a regular weekly thing, possibly alternating between Monday UTC 10:00 and Tuesday UTC 20:00.
Will, I think the Slack channel is a great idea. I’ll sort that out.
