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27 March 2022 at 12:17 in reply to: Would you like to be part of the Kyma Kata peer-learning experience? #2173
Alan Jackson
ParticipantOh yes we’re still doing the Kyma Kata meet-up every Tuesday at 12:00 and 20:00 UK time!
Alan Jackson
ParticipantAh, 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)
Alan Jackson
ParticipantYikes. I’ve used the
false: nil
expression 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, putnil
in 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?
5 November 2019 at 04:25 in reply to: Would you like to be part of the Kyma Kata peer-learning experience? #1675Alan Jackson
ParticipantHi 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
Alan Jackson
ParticipantHi 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
9 February 2019 at 16:09 in reply to: Would you like to be part of the Kyma Kata peer-learning experience? #1550Alan Jackson
ParticipantThe next Kyma Kata is Wednesday 13th Feb 2019, 20:00 – 22:00 GMT / UTC.
Sign up here
27 January 2019 at 18:34 in reply to: Would you like to be part of the Kyma Kata peer-learning experience? #1545Alan Jackson
Participant20 January 2019 at 15:47 in reply to: Would you like to be part of the Kyma Kata peer-learning experience? #1538Alan Jackson
ParticipantWe 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.
13 January 2019 at 15:13 in reply to: Would you like to be part of the Kyma Kata peer-learning experience? #1533Alan Jackson
ParticipantWe 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.
18 December 2018 at 16:19 in reply to: Would you like to be part of the Kyma Kata peer-learning experience? #1515Alan Jackson
ParticipantHi 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.
18 December 2018 at 05:36 in reply to: Would you like to be part of the Kyma Kata peer-learning experience? #1511Alan Jackson
ParticipantWe 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.
15 December 2018 at 08:39 in reply to: Would you like to be part of the Kyma Kata peer-learning experience? #1509Alan Jackson
ParticipantHi Aaron,
Fantastic! Thanks for your enthusiasm!
13 December 2018 at 20:20 in reply to: Would you like to be part of the Kyma Kata peer-learning experience? #1506Alan Jackson
ParticipantAlan Jackson
ParticipantIt was great to catch up with everyone.
Charlie, those ideas for the upcoming events sound great.
I’d be up for doing some practical collaborations, co-learning or skill swapping even more often than that, at weekends or evenings if anyone’s up for that. Charlie, you mentioned you might be up for some more smaller scale meet-ups at your excellent space. I thought I’d start a doodle to see if anyone’s interested…
http://doodle.com/poll/mhr4w75peukwqqzn
Alan Jackson
ParticipantFantastic! I’m planning to be there.
-Alan
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