On February 13, 2009, an inside joke turned into this website, thanks to a lunch time trip to White Castle the day before.\u00a0 The true story behind the meaning of the Learning Turkey name has not yet been told on this site.\u00a0 Today, on the three year anniversary, is the day to tell said story.<\/p>\n
It all begins in 2007, with a little program called HTS.\u00a0 The goal: take\u00a0a legacy mainframe application and rewrite it for\u00a0a server environment.\u00a0 The challenge: do it with a team made up of resouces who know the mainframe and not necessarily new-fangled technologies like Oracle or Java.\u00a0 To help with the transition, it was decided to put together a website to store helpful documents where people could start to get up to speed.\u00a0 This website was called the Community of Learning!\u00a0 Now, someone had to be put in charge of maintaining and populating the Community of Learning.\u00a0 Enter Dennis Watts.<\/p>\n
Dennis had joined the team a few years earlier and, what he lacked in talent, he made up for with bad ideas.\u00a0 While most of those ideas had been discarded (the Employee of the Month parade), he was allowed to run wild\u00a0with the Community of Learning.\u00a0 Within weeks, there were signs posted around the floor touting the Community of Learning, featuring an old picture of John Belushi from Animal House and a changing narrative structure.\u00a0 These signs managed to outlast both the program and Dennis, and were the topic of conversation on the fateful lunch trip to White Castle on 2\/12\/09.<\/p>\n
Somehow, the old Community of Learning came up on the drive out to White Castle, which led to someone commenting that Dennis was a “turkey.”\u00a0 Eventually, this became Dennis the Learning Turkey,\u00a0and the next day became the genesis of this website and its original premise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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