Choose Your Own Adventure!

From WindyCityRails 2012

Presenter: Aaron Kalin

Notes

From @benjaminoakes:

Picked "Polyglot"

• Friday hugs :)
• Went through some different languages (Lua, Haskell, Go, Pawn, etc)

Picked "bartending tips"

• Call drinks...
• The well...
• Lingo:
  • "Short/tall"
  • "Up" martini glass
  • Neat: short, nothing added
  • etc

Picked "becoming a stormtrooper"

• Non-profit costuming group
• Recognized by Lucas
• Give back to the community

Picked "breakable toys"

• Code toys for you to learn/play with
• Have fun
• Take a risk
• Doing things others have done before is fine
• His (on https://github.com/martinisoft)
  • snitch: who's on the wifi?
  • funnies: webcomic scraper
  • listbotto: PHP to spatial audio
  • scriptular: local regexp tester for Ruby/JS