Things I Learned at the Liferay Retreat

This is a list of things I learned at the Liferay retreat.

• You should not give Nerf guns to developers with pent up energy from sitting around coding all the time.  Pandemonium will ensue.
• Many Liferay-ers are multi-talented. We have singers, guitarists, dancers (sort of), people who are good at sports, and, um, monkeys.
• There is debate over whether you need to be naked to live in an igloo.
• People from Canada do not live in igloos.
• Don't challenge Brian Chan to a freethrow contest.
• If you are an innocent bystander in a Nerf gun fight, a well-known Liferay engineer will hide behind you to avoid being shot, while he shoots at others.
• Caris Chan is a very brave woman. She can stand unflinching while 5 guys at least double her size come rushing at her, each with a metal can and a golf ball.
• Joe Shum can fit an infinite number of golf balls in his pockets.
• I am not the only one who doesn't know how to do regular expressions.
• A football that drops over a cliff is retrievable.
• New Jerseyans like me think anything with a drop of more than 10 feet is a cliff.
• It is very hard to draw out 17 words from Romeo and Juliet into a 60 second video.
• Have you heard of the Amazon Kindle? It's this awesome new book reader. You can  store tons of books on it, and it has an e-ink display that looks just like paper! It's also wireless too, so you can be connected all the time and just transfer books....
• People in the Malibu area don't call the cops when multiple Liferay employees get lost in their neighborhood looking for their retreat location which is so remote that neither Google Maps nor multiple brands of GPS devices can find it.
• I swear I found the exact spot Arnold Schwarzenegger dropped Sully off a cliff in Commando.
• I am way too impressed by cliffs and things dropping off them.
• People will walk away from your conversation when you start talking about the difference between classical and presuppositional apologetics.
• Technology people who work for an Internet company can survive a weekend with no Internet access.
• Herding a bunch of engineers into a static schedule is akin to herding cats.
• Saying "Enterprise. Open Source. For Life." in German is not that hard.
• A guy with a sprained ankle can still bear most of the weight of a grown man as he is carried into his room on video.
• If you are not on Alex Chow's team, you will have to physically restrain him in order to take his picture with your team.
• It is possible to hit somebody who is lying on a massage table in the side of the face from across the room with a Nerf gun.

And finally:

• I work with a fantastic group of people, most of whom I didn't know until this weekend, and they all made me and my family feel very welcome.

[David Rison]

Loved it. Good writing. So true. hehe.

[James Min]

hahahahahahaha

[Alice Cheng]

Hehe. You guys were easier to herd than cats.