Dev Club Weekly

Conversations:

• Python on the iPad
• Promises: a way to represent something happening in the future (kind of a better way to do callbacks)
• jQuery deferreds aren't promises (but they're kind of similar)
• SpaceX and disposable income
• Heads Up Displays (Like Meta)
• GO IS FUN AND AWESOME!!!
• Governments and Markets and Google PageRank
• Astro Teller and 6 month spikes
• Reg Ex validation of Email
• Don't use regular expressions to parse email - use a parser
• At a certain frequency, putting a human in the loop is the best design pattern
• Docker containers: the successor to HTML and Javascript?
• The virtues of micro-apps
• Distributed systems that follow a semi-linear pattern
• applications that oversee a sort of "assembly line" and let everyone check in on the current status of the process
• (is this a monad?)
• Lessons from teaching a workshop:
• Normalize the environment 
• Start with the finished product and work backwards from there
• Expect very little, include stretch goals
• SOLEs (Self Organized Learning Environments
• Sugata Mitra's TED talk
• Black Mountain SOLE
• Modes of the Brain: Mastery and Exploration

Next week, if conditions are favorable, we may experiment with podcasting Dev Club kind of as a speakers' panel sort of thing. See you then!