June 3, 2019 at 4:47 pm
When I came back from Afghanistan four years ago I found myself winding down my officiating soccer. Partly because I coached a U18 girls competitive team in the Fall of 2015. But one of the things I have found after finally stopping officiating that I miss getting on the pitch with kids, but I don't miss the drama from the sidelines. You may find the same thing, you'll missing working with the kids but not dealing with the parents. Have fun in the workshop. I would still like to get out there and meet you. Perhaps the next SQL Saturday in your area. I still have a lot to do here taking care of my dad's estate. Taking longer than I would like just going through every in the house.
Yeah I have often said "the worst thing by far to ever happen to youth sports is parents". I certainly will not miss the parent side of the equation and the constant yelling of inane comments. Every season I have a meeting with the parents and tell them that the word "kick" is forbidden. It is the most useless word ever in the world of soccer. I tell them we don't kick the ball, we dribble, pass and shoot. And the parents yelling "kick it" just makes my skin crawl. That is sort of like yelling "slap it" during a basketball game...ugh!!! I just wish the parents actually understood the game.
I would love to get together someday. It looks like the next one in Kansas City is in September. https://www.sqlsaturday.com/901/EventHome.aspx The last one in town (that I know of) was in 2015. Steve presented at the one and we had a chance to meet up. He is the only threadizen I have had the pleasure to meet to in real life.
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June 3, 2019 at 5:52 pm
Just saw a joke.
Coach calls over little 8 yo player:
Coach: You know that I substitute everyone so you call get some time to play right?
Player: Yes
Coach: And you know we're all about sportsmanship and treating each other and the opposing team with respect right?
Player: Yes
Coach: And you know what I care about the most is that you try hard and learn from the experience right?
Player: Yes
Coach: And you know how really bad it would be to curse at the umpire and call people really bad names right?
Player: Yes
Coach: Good. Go explain that to your grandmother.
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June 3, 2019 at 5:55 pm
I have a bit of bittersweet news. After more than a decade of coaching youth soccer I am finally hanging up the whistle (although I never actually use one in practice). My son's team fell apart and he is going to try out for one of the large local clubs. I am not at all concerned for him as he is a great athlete and always lands on his feet. Ending my coaching career is the second major commitment I have been able to step down from in the last year. The other was stepping down as cubmaster for cubscouts at the beginning of 2019. I held that role for 9 years. I am still mentoring and helping the new cubmaster (and an entirely new committee) as my son still has another year until he crosses over to boy scouts. I am still coaching baseball over the summer and likely basketball in the winter but my schedule is finally starting to have some holes. I am planning on spending many hours trying to uncover my woodshop which has been neglected for several years now. I am also thinking I may finally be able to start knocking out some of the bigger projects on my "honey do" list.
I hope you're happy stepping back. It hurt when I gave up Scouting. I really loved doing it. Work schedule just didn't allow me to be regular enough to be of any use any more. Stunk. Love my job though, so there's that.
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June 3, 2019 at 6:12 pm
I hope you're happy stepping back. It hurt when I gave up Scouting. I really loved doing it. Work schedule just didn't allow me to be regular enough to be of any use any more. Stunk. Love my job though, so there's that.
It was a little painful at first. But I am still in the pack as a parent for another year. All the parents know me and all the boys address me as "cubmaster sean", except for the soccer kids who call me "coach". Saturday was our crossover and I have to admit it was nice to help setup at the beginning and bail out a little bit early to do something else I wanted to do instead of cleanup. 😉
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June 3, 2019 at 6:22 pm
I have a bit of bittersweet news. After more than a decade of coaching youth soccer I am finally hanging up the whistle (although I never actually use one in practice). My son's team fell apart and he is going to try out for one of the large local clubs. I am not at all concerned for him as he is a great athlete and always lands on his feet. Ending my coaching career is the second major commitment I have been able to step down from in the last year. The other was stepping down as cubmaster for cubscouts at the beginning of 2019. I held that role for 9 years. I am still mentoring and helping the new cubmaster (and an entirely new committee) as my son still has another year until he crosses over to boy scouts. I am still coaching baseball over the summer and likely basketball in the winter but my schedule is finally starting to have some holes. I am planning on spending many hours trying to uncover my woodshop which has been neglected for several years now. I am also thinking I may finally be able to start knocking out some of the bigger projects on my "honey do" list.
I was basically done with coaching baseball and Scouts when my kids hit college age. My youngest is 26. I missed it.
Now, I am back at it with both Scouts and baseball with my grandkids. Full speed ahead! As long as my back, ankle, rotator cuff, etc. keep working, I'm good.
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June 4, 2019 at 5:07 pm
As long as my back, ankle, rotator cuff, etc. keep working, I'm good.
So, really, not so good then huh? 😀
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June 4, 2019 at 5:13 pm
Shifting gears for a minute... does anyone have experience with BitBucket (source control) and Jira? Rumor has it that they integrate seamlessly but have zero experience with either so I'm interested in that, general satisfaction with each product, how much it's costing, and whether or not either has a CLI (Command Line Interface).
Yes, I'm going to Yabingooglehoo the hell out of both but thought I'd grab a couple of opinions from those use it, first.
Thanks, folks.
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June 4, 2019 at 5:16 pm
Just saw a joke. Coach calls over little 8 yo player: Coach: You know that I substitute everyone so you call get some time to play right? Player: Yes Coach: And you know we're all about sportsmanship and treating each other and the opposing team with respect right? Player: Yes Coach: And you know what I care about the most is that you try hard and learn from the experience right? Player: Yes Coach: And you know how really bad it would be to curse at the umpire and call people really bad names right? Player: Yes Coach: Good. Go explain that to your grandmother.
It funny how that has such an extreme parallel with the job of DBA. 😀 And, take you pick as to which person in the joke is the DBA because they all fit.
p.s. Does Granny carry an umbrella capable of launching pork chops? 😀
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June 4, 2019 at 5:32 pm
I can't speak to bit bucket or Jira's CLI but I do like Jira/Confluence. As a ticket/issue/project/document tracker it works quite well for keeping track of the status of things and who/what should be tied to what as well being pretty verbose about letting people know the status of things they're working on. The GUI is pretty straight forward to use and includes SQLish search functionality.
June 4, 2019 at 6:19 pm
Shifting gears for a minute... does anyone have experience with BitBucket (source control) and Jira? Rumor has it that they integrate seamlessly but have zero experience with either so I'm interested in that, general satisfaction with each product, how much it's costing, and whether or not either has a CLI (Command Line Interface). Yes, I'm going to Yabingooglehoo the hell out of both but thought I'd grab a couple of opinions from those use it, first. Thanks, folks.
Not BitBucket, but I do have experience with Tortoise SVN and JIRA integration. It was very well done. You would include the JIRA ticket number when you checked in items, and it would automatically log the check-in to JIRA as well.
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June 4, 2019 at 6:32 pm
I can't speak to bit bucket or Jira's CLI but I do like Jira/Confluence. As a ticket/issue/project/document tracker it works quite well for keeping track of the status of things and who/what should be tied to what as well being pretty verbose about letting people know the status of things they're working on. The GUI is pretty straight forward to use and includes SQLish search functionality.
This is what they use on my wife's team and she always is raving about well it works.
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June 4, 2019 at 7:04 pm
Shifting gears for a minute... does anyone have experience with BitBucket (source control) and Jira? Rumor has it that they integrate seamlessly but have zero experience with either so I'm interested in that, general satisfaction with each product, how much it's costing, and whether or not either has a CLI (Command Line Interface). Yes, I'm going to Yabingooglehoo the hell out of both but thought I'd grab a couple of opinions from those use it, first. Thanks, folks.
I have experience with these products, along with Confluence. They both do the job pretty well, and there is cross-platform integration built in. Are you looking at cloud or on-premise versions? (I know more about the cloud offerings.) Never did any CLI stuff with them, though we did also use SourceTree as the Git client (for its integration with BitBucket) and TeamCity for CI and job automation, with lots of integration (eg, Confluence to JIRA to BitBucket and BitBucket to TeamCity). This linkage meant that we could always track back from individual commits to original work requests, and vice versa.
If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.
June 4, 2019 at 9:25 pm
Shifting gears for a minute... does anyone have experience with BitBucket (source control) and Jira? Rumor has it that they integrate seamlessly but have zero experience with either so I'm interested in that, general satisfaction with each product, how much it's costing, and whether or not either has a CLI (Command Line Interface). Yes, I'm going to Yabingooglehoo the hell out of both but thought I'd grab a couple of opinions from those use it, first. Thanks, folks.
We use them both here. I like them both, I haven't heard any complaints. Don't know about the cost or CLI.
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June 6, 2019 at 12:35 am
Jeff Moden wrote:Shifting gears for a minute... does anyone have experience with BitBucket (source control) and Jira? Rumor has it that they integrate seamlessly but have zero experience with either so I'm interested in that, general satisfaction with each product, how much it's costing, and whether or not either has a CLI (Command Line Interface). Yes, I'm going to Yabingooglehoo the hell out of both but thought I'd grab a couple of opinions from those use it, first. Thanks, folks.
I have experience with these products, along with Confluence. They both do the job pretty well, and there is cross-platform integration built in. Are you looking at cloud or on-premise versions? (I know more about the cloud offerings.) Never did any CLI stuff with them, though we did also use SourceTree as the Git client (for its integration with BitBucket) and TeamCity for CI and job automation, with lots of integration (eg, Confluence to JIRA to BitBucket and BitBucket to TeamCity). This linkage meant that we could always track back from individual commits to original work requests, and vice versa.
It's the cloud version. Thanks, Phil.
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June 6, 2019 at 12:37 am
Jeff Moden wrote:Shifting gears for a minute... does anyone have experience with BitBucket (source control) and Jira? Rumor has it that they integrate seamlessly but have zero experience with either so I'm interested in that, general satisfaction with each product, how much it's costing, and whether or not either has a CLI (Command Line Interface). Yes, I'm going to Yabingooglehoo the hell out of both but thought I'd grab a couple of opinions from those use it, first. Thanks, folks.
We use them both here. I like them both, I haven't heard any complaints. Don't know about the cost or CLI.
Since you were as critical as I was about the SSC migration ;), that's high praise for the products. Thank you.
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