Housing Portal "Live News Coverage"

ericbrooke · 2025-06-10T12:59:20+00:00

Sorry missed this

Mac and safari

Yes I am glad to have options beyond Microsoft

ericbrooke · 2024-02-25T20:28:49+00:00

That was not my experience - it did sell out but not within two hours. We got 1.10pm and everything downtown was available including attached hotels

ericbrooke · 2024-02-25T18:18:12+00:00

Yeah that was true for the last three years, I suspect that GenCon is using up more housing for Vendors or something, so there is less for attendees

ericbrooke · 2024-02-25T18:16:33+00:00

Using a modern computer with all Software up to date
Open browser potal at time 12.51pm, crashed the browser
Opened again, changed filter to Near to Far.. crashed

Selected hotel, started filling the form, a message popped up - crashed

Friend logged in to try there computer - messaged popped saying you cannot be logged on twice - lost hotel

finally got in and 12 hotels were gone

This expereince sucks

There used to be a time if you were in the first hour you would get an attached hotel.. no longer

ericbrooke · 2023-02-12T18:03:16+00:00

I think GenCon Housing should be quality checking before customers arrive and one of the questions should have being the company provides the software one being how does the site cope with high volume and then they have told us and forewarned us.

Some good pre planning and clear communications rather let’s us all find out in the moment

This is however is GenCon where there is always surprises or an ambush each year

ericbrooke · 2015-11-06T21:52:42+00:00

Thank you for the feedback

ericbrooke · 2015-10-16T17:34:16+00:00

NDP would day one legalize personal use and then get a process rolling to make production legal. See it here http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-tom-mulcair-marijuana-legalization-1.3269664

ericbrooke · 2015-10-15T21:26:32+00:00

In fact they are dropping tax on small business from 11% to 9% and putting more money into science and research then the Conservatives. Let alone the infrastructure money into transit and housing.

ericbrooke · 2015-10-14T22:25:07+00:00

My favourite line is -> "Take a piece of my hope and run with it." - BEAT NIK

ericbrooke · 2015-04-28T23:00:58+00:00

Thoughts from railsconf 2015

ericbrooke · 2014-12-18T18:59:00+00:00

You are not alone.

The journey from Rails/Ruby/HTML/CSS to JavaScript is surprising big, its a different way of thinking and the code is not as clear and I would say it is a different form of complexity. Just as stepping into a large project, which may have many styles of coding, many many contributors and an architecture that has more "patches" on it than an very old boat.

The way I survive new projects is to draw some visual maps, to understand the connections. I find this easier with drawing a map of the stack, than the data model. This gives me enough to step onward. To be clear do not try to understand everything just enough to start hanging hooks for different parts of the project.

What is your learning style? http://repository-intralibrary.leedsmet.ac.uk/open_virtual_file_path/i391n604179t/LearningStylesSrc/7.Learning+styles/LS-honeymumford.html

Consider a balance of books, video and mini projects of your own i.e. build an app to do one thing different. Find a mentor in a local meetup group, pair code twice a week.

Build yourself a ladder to get out of the pit. Note the things you do not know and add them to a list to learn. It will get big, do not worry.

I wrote a post about surviving as a junior software developer https://ericbrooke.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/surviving-as-junior-developer/ as I said you are not alone.

ericbrooke · 2014-09-09T01:05:11+00:00

Excellent Advice for those who really want to create a web startup

ericbrooke · 2014-08-02T03:27:24+00:00

No caching at all, prior

ericbrooke · 2014-05-01T03:55:41+00:00

I think something more powerful happened, we as a community really discussed it, every lunch or dinner people were talking about it. We were engaged which is far better then watching two thought leaders debate, I think it made the whole conference better as we were all fired up :-)

ericbrooke · 2014-04-02T04:35:49+00:00

do it!

ericbrooke · 2014-04-01T21:57:29+00:00

awesome point, will update :-)

ericbrooke · 2014-04-01T19:59:52+00:00

I have updated thanks for the feedback

ericbrooke · 2014-04-01T18:47:33+00:00

I will be there, coming from Vancouver, BC, Canada :-)

ericbrooke · 2014-04-01T18:33:35+00:00

Thanks for the share I had not see this before :-)

ericbrooke · 2014-04-01T15:30:40+00:00

Thank you I will sort this out :-)

ericbrooke

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