I'm in studio tonight, broadcasting closed circuit. No this is not OTT with Kaltura, though I am talking about that with a Guild guy (PDX Code Guild, for those just tuning in).
I'm a teacher by night, in a night school, of the Python computer language. Students hussle home, or connect by Bluetooth from their cars, meaning no texting, no staring at the screen. The audio channel is better than no channel, if I do say so myself.
I've been working all day however, doing marketing for the DSR (design science revolution) as I've been doing for decades, all through the GNU / EFF years, up through OST and USDLA. Sometimes I tweet, other times I add to Facebook.
Then I served as a chauffeur. Back when I used to write custom computer applications, I designed a county-wide system of ride dispatching, pre-uber, likewise with centralized reimbursement to the drivers, on a mileage basis.
We did a brisk business, Clackamas County and I, with cigarette tax support. My server-side code faced the dispatchers in their cubicles as no smartphones were yet on the market. Riders mostly booked routine rides going out a few weeks, adding the occasional doctor trip.
Nowadays I still drive, dispatching myself when I have to. We did a hospital today, one in the Providence system. I used to write code for their St. Vincent's operating room theaters, under the supervision of their world class cardiology team. We served the cath labs too. CORIS and CLAIR (those were two of the applications I wrote). Memories...
Tonight in my pep talk portion, I'm going to remind students that programming is hard, meaning it's not something one learns once and for all really quickly, so much as one gains in proficiency.
Computer programming is more like composing music than playing it however, in that real time coordination only need be extended so far, to the clerical level one might say. Guitar playing, like figure skating and hockey playing, take a different form of concentration, and those take time to learn too.
I'm a teacher by night, in a night school, of the Python computer language. Students hussle home, or connect by Bluetooth from their cars, meaning no texting, no staring at the screen. The audio channel is better than no channel, if I do say so myself.
I've been working all day however, doing marketing for the DSR (design science revolution) as I've been doing for decades, all through the GNU / EFF years, up through OST and USDLA. Sometimes I tweet, other times I add to Facebook.
Then I served as a chauffeur. Back when I used to write custom computer applications, I designed a county-wide system of ride dispatching, pre-uber, likewise with centralized reimbursement to the drivers, on a mileage basis.
We did a brisk business, Clackamas County and I, with cigarette tax support. My server-side code faced the dispatchers in their cubicles as no smartphones were yet on the market. Riders mostly booked routine rides going out a few weeks, adding the occasional doctor trip.
Nowadays I still drive, dispatching myself when I have to. We did a hospital today, one in the Providence system. I used to write code for their St. Vincent's operating room theaters, under the supervision of their world class cardiology team. We served the cath labs too. CORIS and CLAIR (those were two of the applications I wrote). Memories...
Tonight in my pep talk portion, I'm going to remind students that programming is hard, meaning it's not something one learns once and for all really quickly, so much as one gains in proficiency.
Computer programming is more like composing music than playing it however, in that real time coordination only need be extended so far, to the clerical level one might say. Guitar playing, like figure skating and hockey playing, take a different form of concentration, and those take time to learn too.
