Demanding Perfection

Now the dojo is built and the training has started, the expectation of success follows. Train hard and be rewarded with better results than you ever dreamed possible.

The problem is when. How soon can I expect the results I need? Come on! I'm in the middle of the montage. Shouldn't the flying round kick breaking only the blue plates on odd numbered Thursdays be easy yet?

No, no, no!

Demand perfection...eventually! Dare to suck with the goal of getting it wrong to learn what it takes to make it right.

Building the Dojo

The training seems to start with building the environment, creating the tools, getting the bare necessities in order.  Not as a precursor to training but as the act of initiation itself.

Scala, Akka, SBT, Google App Engine, eclipse, Scala IDE, sbt-eclipse, sbt-appengine, DataNucleus JDO, cars to wax, a fence to paint, floors to sand, flies to catch with chopsticks...perhaps there's even enough left of the handyman/drunken master in there somewhere to pull it all off.

The Getting-Better Montage

Someone's been remiss while taking himself too seriously. Well, both must stop!

Time for a change and a chronicle of the change. Isn't that what a blog is supposed to be anyway?

Decision time has come. There's no escaping it, no delaying it, no dodging it.

Cue the music--the getting-better montage is about to begin!