The key to success is to succeed! I miss all my friends. keeping the chin up and out and getting my block knocked off on a regular basis so that I can understand pain, and persistence are not necessarily related or necessary, but they can create a totally new outlook on why connection is important, and why relationships have to be nurtured and created anew each day so that each day when I wake up and find my bride there, I smile at the good, the bad and the ugly we do to each other every day because in the keeness of my relationship with my wife I understand that the relationships I share with others will pale over time and until I forget all but Christ, I will hold her in my heart so dear so loved so willing to listen to me, and able to understand the simplest things about me are often the most complex and the most complex can be summed in a few words, usually beginning and ending with love and grace, and where grace begins, love ends, and where love begins, grace ends, and together, with grace and love we have peace, but peace is hard because love and grace are hard.
Love and Grace are hard.
that is all.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
The... "Recipe"...
I have applied some interesting tags to this post, so I should define exactly what I am talking about here, I don't want there to be any confusion:
The point of this post is to provide my AMAZING recipe for red beans and rice.
However, I am hoping to kickstart some discussion about programming processes. For me this is an intersection of things, we are at a nexus so to speak, between how my brainz applies thing I learn to reality. Welcome to my worldview. First things first, here's the recipe:
Red Beans and Rice
--GB Hoyt style--
(feeds 8, maybe more)
ingredients:
NOTE:
To make really good red beans and rice, that will feed about eight adults all the beans they want, you need a two pound bag of dried beans. That is important. Early iterations containing canned beans were judged to be definitely inferior to later iterations containing more labor intensive dried beans.
30 hours prior to serving time: in a large bowl, start soaking the beans, cover them with about 2 inches of water.
Right before bedtime: Drain and refill bean water.
Right after waking up: Drain and refill bean water.
The previous steps will help eliminate the 'aftereffects' of eating beans, but it's not fool proof, I understand the Amish let their legumes sprout for the same reason before cooking, I haven't tried that yet.
About five hours prior to serving time:
Make a roux:
in a black skillet, or pot you will cook beans in, heat the olive oil to about the temperature you would cook hotcakes at.
combine flour with black pepper, white pepper, and sage. Slowly add the flour mix to the hot oil, stirring often, try to evenly add it across the bottom of the pan. There should be enough flour to make the mixture thick, but not gloppy. It's an art, making roux. Let the flour darken until it's a dark brick color. you don't want to scorch the roux, so cook it slow, only turning the heat up if you have to.
If your Red beans are to be cooked in a different pot, you can go ahead and start warming up the chicken broth, adding the bay leaves, garlic, and a little more sage. When the roux is brown enough, add it to the broth, stir well, turn the heat up and bring to a rolling boil. If you are cooking the beans in the same pot as you make the roux (this is ideal, dutch oven to be 'authentic'), add your broth and spices to the roux. When the broth/roux mix starts to boil, drainthe beans and add them to the pot. boil on high for about 15 minutes, then turn heat down to a low boil. It should be about 4-5 hours till serving time. Two hours before serving time, dice the onion and bell pepper, and slice the celery to the mix, stirring each into the mix. then slice and add your sausage, let cook for about two hours. If you add the celery, bell pepper, onion, and sausage too soon, it will break down into flavourless goo, too early, and it won't marry. I find that dicing the onion and bell pepper, and leaving the celery in bigger chunks marries all three flavors, and adds great texture. Cook 4 cups of dry rice about half an hour before serving time. I also make cornbread to go with this meal. Shortly before serving, chop the green onion, and let each person add to taste to their dish. This is a functional garnish. Not only does the onion look pretty on top of the dish, but it is what really sets the flavor off.
enjoy!
Now, what does this have to do with agile development? Namely, this recipe was developed using Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
It contained "Domain Driven Design" where the domain is the collection of people eating at my house on Friday nites that I am off.
It contains "Acceptance test driven planning" because if the Domain disapproves of the flavor, it must be modified!
It also contains "Test driven development" because certain assumptions were made like "The red beans and rice should be slightly pasty when served", early iterations were too watery, then too gooey, finally, the magic ingredient (the roux) emerged when an older recipe was perused. I know you don't see but what one recipe here, so this is where I pose a question to the group, What's the next test? Where goes the next iteration? Should I codify the sausage, and say "always use this sausage", should I detail out the roux? The right roux has definitely played the biggest part of making this dish right. That, and waiting till the end to add the green onion.
l8rz!
The point of this post is to provide my AMAZING recipe for red beans and rice.
However, I am hoping to kickstart some discussion about programming processes. For me this is an intersection of things, we are at a nexus so to speak, between how my brainz applies thing I learn to reality. Welcome to my worldview. First things first, here's the recipe:
Red Beans and Rice
--GB Hoyt style--
(feeds 8, maybe more)
ingredients:
- 2lbs red beans, dried
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup olive oil
- 2 32oz boxes of chicken broth
- 1 head of celery
- 1 green bell pepper
- 1 red onion
- 1 bunch green onions.
- 2 tsp rubbed sage
- 2 tsp white pepper
- 2 tsp black pepper
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 3-6 bay leaves
- garlic salt (to taste)
- Tiger Sauce brand hot sauce
- Sausage, something with flavor, traditionally, andouille
NOTE:
To make really good red beans and rice, that will feed about eight adults all the beans they want, you need a two pound bag of dried beans. That is important. Early iterations containing canned beans were judged to be definitely inferior to later iterations containing more labor intensive dried beans.
30 hours prior to serving time: in a large bowl, start soaking the beans, cover them with about 2 inches of water.
Right before bedtime: Drain and refill bean water.
Right after waking up: Drain and refill bean water.
The previous steps will help eliminate the 'aftereffects' of eating beans, but it's not fool proof, I understand the Amish let their legumes sprout for the same reason before cooking, I haven't tried that yet.
About five hours prior to serving time:
Make a roux:
in a black skillet, or pot you will cook beans in, heat the olive oil to about the temperature you would cook hotcakes at.
combine flour with black pepper, white pepper, and sage. Slowly add the flour mix to the hot oil, stirring often, try to evenly add it across the bottom of the pan. There should be enough flour to make the mixture thick, but not gloppy. It's an art, making roux. Let the flour darken until it's a dark brick color. you don't want to scorch the roux, so cook it slow, only turning the heat up if you have to.
If your Red beans are to be cooked in a different pot, you can go ahead and start warming up the chicken broth, adding the bay leaves, garlic, and a little more sage. When the roux is brown enough, add it to the broth, stir well, turn the heat up and bring to a rolling boil. If you are cooking the beans in the same pot as you make the roux (this is ideal, dutch oven to be 'authentic'), add your broth and spices to the roux. When the broth/roux mix starts to boil, drainthe beans and add them to the pot. boil on high for about 15 minutes, then turn heat down to a low boil. It should be about 4-5 hours till serving time. Two hours before serving time, dice the onion and bell pepper, and slice the celery to the mix, stirring each into the mix. then slice and add your sausage, let cook for about two hours. If you add the celery, bell pepper, onion, and sausage too soon, it will break down into flavourless goo, too early, and it won't marry. I find that dicing the onion and bell pepper, and leaving the celery in bigger chunks marries all three flavors, and adds great texture. Cook 4 cups of dry rice about half an hour before serving time. I also make cornbread to go with this meal. Shortly before serving, chop the green onion, and let each person add to taste to their dish. This is a functional garnish. Not only does the onion look pretty on top of the dish, but it is what really sets the flavor off.
enjoy!
Now, what does this have to do with agile development? Namely, this recipe was developed using Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
It contained "Domain Driven Design" where the domain is the collection of people eating at my house on Friday nites that I am off.
It contains "Acceptance test driven planning" because if the Domain disapproves of the flavor, it must be modified!
It also contains "Test driven development" because certain assumptions were made like "The red beans and rice should be slightly pasty when served", early iterations were too watery, then too gooey, finally, the magic ingredient (the roux) emerged when an older recipe was perused. I know you don't see but what one recipe here, so this is where I pose a question to the group, What's the next test? Where goes the next iteration? Should I codify the sausage, and say "always use this sausage", should I detail out the roux? The right roux has definitely played the biggest part of making this dish right. That, and waiting till the end to add the green onion.
l8rz!
Friday, February 19, 2010
Yes, It's True.
I should be in bed.
It's red beans and rice day, officially, and it always is that I work really hard at delivering this meal on friday nite. going to try some new sausage in the recipe, maybe some kielbasa, nothing too spicy, although if I think I can get away with it, I would like to try a little andouille, or something equally "Louisiana" flav0red.
I tried to listen to a conference yesterday, and that was full of FAIL.
ok, so I have an idea, and as far as I can tell, no one is doing it yet, so I am now left with that dangerous conundrum, to collaborate, or to not collaborate? Basically, I am not looking to do anything new just yet, just trying to do something in a new way, synthesizing some goodness into an otherwise dreary outlook, and having some fun learning about Eclipse. Such as that is, I am trying to put a little jruby on machine(s), maven, some Android dev stuff, all in an attempt to tidy up my brainz and get to hacking my way around a Motorola fone, like say a Droid (snicker snicker), maybe I will own one by the summer. My Bro-in-law has a droid now, and I am trying to think of a good app to write for him, he's in the landscaping industry, so I've gots a few ideas. right now, I have a couple of ham radio ideas also floating around my noggin, but in order to really work them all out, I must first attain some knowledge of how exactly everything fits together.
I ain't gonna lie, Eclipse got a learnin' curve, I mean, POM, Java, all this java junk is weird to me right now, I admit, it scares me, but I see in it all a potential to take me to the next level. I have got to do it! Been a while since I've had a case of the "got to"'s like this.
So,
I have goals.
Goal 1. Learn some Java.
Goal 2. Learn some Eclipse.
Goal 3. Develop useful app for Android using BDD.
n'om sayin?
It's red beans and rice day, officially, and it always is that I work really hard at delivering this meal on friday nite. going to try some new sausage in the recipe, maybe some kielbasa, nothing too spicy, although if I think I can get away with it, I would like to try a little andouille, or something equally "Louisiana" flav0red.
I tried to listen to a conference yesterday, and that was full of FAIL.
ok, so I have an idea, and as far as I can tell, no one is doing it yet, so I am now left with that dangerous conundrum, to collaborate, or to not collaborate? Basically, I am not looking to do anything new just yet, just trying to do something in a new way, synthesizing some goodness into an otherwise dreary outlook, and having some fun learning about Eclipse. Such as that is, I am trying to put a little jruby on machine(s), maven, some Android dev stuff, all in an attempt to tidy up my brainz and get to hacking my way around a Motorola fone, like say a Droid (snicker snicker), maybe I will own one by the summer. My Bro-in-law has a droid now, and I am trying to think of a good app to write for him, he's in the landscaping industry, so I've gots a few ideas. right now, I have a couple of ham radio ideas also floating around my noggin, but in order to really work them all out, I must first attain some knowledge of how exactly everything fits together.
I ain't gonna lie, Eclipse got a learnin' curve, I mean, POM, Java, all this java junk is weird to me right now, I admit, it scares me, but I see in it all a potential to take me to the next level. I have got to do it! Been a while since I've had a case of the "got to"'s like this.
So,
I have goals.
Goal 1. Learn some Java.
Goal 2. Learn some Eclipse.
Goal 3. Develop useful app for Android using BDD.
n'om sayin?
Thursday, February 11, 2010
lots of random things...
... continually happening in the world. I don't know why, exactly, yet they happen. I like the idea that I can write programs for my fone, if only I could think of something interesting to write about. And then charge A WHOLE DOLLAR! for it. millions will buy, few will be disappointed, and I will move my family to a goat farm in the country.
I like me for me!
GB Hoyt
I like me for me!
GB Hoyt
Monday, November 2, 2009
Koalas are Cool
or so I say...
Upgraded two laptops to Ubuntu 9.10-AMD64 Karmic Koala last nite while watching the original V-miniseries on SyFy. So far, so good. Interface looks cool. Got some sort of bug with 'npviewer' that everyone seems to be getting if they use firefox. hmmmm... Seems like I remember that being a problem at first in 9.04 too. Main thing I did with this one though is that instead of doing a "fresh" install, I did an upgrade from the package manager. Oh, I downloaded and baked the iso using BitTorrent, but still, I wanted to try something different. Everything seems to have transfered hot gravy like so it's all good.
We'll see!
need to study some more php.
Upgraded two laptops to Ubuntu 9.10-AMD64 Karmic Koala last nite while watching the original V-miniseries on SyFy. So far, so good. Interface looks cool. Got some sort of bug with 'npviewer' that everyone seems to be getting if they use firefox. hmmmm... Seems like I remember that being a problem at first in 9.04 too. Main thing I did with this one though is that instead of doing a "fresh" install, I did an upgrade from the package manager. Oh, I downloaded and baked the iso using BitTorrent, but still, I wanted to try something different. Everything seems to have transfered hot gravy like so it's all good.
We'll see!
need to study some more php.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Ten Days!
Just look at that beautiful countdown going in my sidebar! 10 days!
Saw an email in my inbox that said "Windows 7 is Almost Here!" My first thought was "BATTLESTATIONS!"
then I lol'd.
My Dad likes it so far though, he says it's what Vista should have been. idk.
Been reading up on PHP and Apache. Having fun, but still believe rails is a better way to make dynamic content. Will reserve final judgment till after I get some things built in PHP.
that is all
Saw an email in my inbox that said "Windows 7 is Almost Here!" My first thought was "BATTLESTATIONS!"
then I lol'd.
My Dad likes it so far though, he says it's what Vista should have been. idk.
Been reading up on PHP and Apache. Having fun, but still believe rails is a better way to make dynamic content. Will reserve final judgment till after I get some things built in PHP.
that is all
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Ruby Foo and the Art of Application Development
Hmmmm,
I'm thinking about what it takes to write really good programs. I'm thinking about this a lot lately, because I want to earn a living writing really good, useful, soul searching programs. So let's talk about cucumber. I discovered cucumber about 10 months ago, right when it was starting to become usable. The team I was working with used cucumber for writing stories in their development cycle. The whole BDD/TDD development process was new (and still is new) to me at the time, but I was having fun, and it seemed to me that this cucumber thing was great fun. I had no idea what it really did.
I suppose you should be making fun of me, it's not after all, very reasonable to use a tool you understand nothing about, but I am a jump then look kinda guy when it comes to some things, and learning is one of them (sometimes). I did what any reasonable person does after discovering something shiny and nifty, I bought a book about it.
Actually, what I bought was a promise for a book, at a special discount. The simply named The Rspec Book is a great lil' book. It's not released yet, but it's in 'beta' mode. That means I get regular updates when Dave, or Aslak, or whoever updates the book. I got it round about version 4, it's on version 10 and set to release in it's final version in December of this year. I'll get a hard copy of the book once it's officially released too. Personally, I think that this is a great way to do publishing. Since this book was first announced/released, there have been several changes to the methodology of running cucumber and rspec. There have been minor syntax changes, new habits for namespacing, etc. The book remains current. I mean, it is seriously Agile (must be Italian)! It's easy to read if you are a n00b or if you are a wannabe (like me), and the support the guys give with the Rspec and Cucumber groups online is outstanding.
The book takes you on a journey through the methodology of Acceptance test driven planning, Domain Driven Design, and Test Driven Development. This triad forms the basis for Behavior Driven Development (BDD), a system by which good software 'emerges' from the process by writing the code that answers the questions users ask.
I'll leave you with that for now.
I :heart: you guys.
G. Brandon Hoyt
I'm thinking about what it takes to write really good programs. I'm thinking about this a lot lately, because I want to earn a living writing really good, useful, soul searching programs. So let's talk about cucumber. I discovered cucumber about 10 months ago, right when it was starting to become usable. The team I was working with used cucumber for writing stories in their development cycle. The whole BDD/TDD development process was new (and still is new) to me at the time, but I was having fun, and it seemed to me that this cucumber thing was great fun. I had no idea what it really did.
I suppose you should be making fun of me, it's not after all, very reasonable to use a tool you understand nothing about, but I am a jump then look kinda guy when it comes to some things, and learning is one of them (sometimes). I did what any reasonable person does after discovering something shiny and nifty, I bought a book about it.
Actually, what I bought was a promise for a book, at a special discount. The simply named The Rspec Book is a great lil' book. It's not released yet, but it's in 'beta' mode. That means I get regular updates when Dave, or Aslak, or whoever updates the book. I got it round about version 4, it's on version 10 and set to release in it's final version in December of this year. I'll get a hard copy of the book once it's officially released too. Personally, I think that this is a great way to do publishing. Since this book was first announced/released, there have been several changes to the methodology of running cucumber and rspec. There have been minor syntax changes, new habits for namespacing, etc. The book remains current. I mean, it is seriously Agile (must be Italian)! It's easy to read if you are a n00b or if you are a wannabe (like me), and the support the guys give with the Rspec and Cucumber groups online is outstanding.
The book takes you on a journey through the methodology of Acceptance test driven planning, Domain Driven Design, and Test Driven Development. This triad forms the basis for Behavior Driven Development (BDD), a system by which good software 'emerges' from the process by writing the code that answers the questions users ask.
I'll leave you with that for now.
I :heart: you guys.
G. Brandon Hoyt
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