August 16, 2006
If all goes well, I ought to have a job by the end of next week. I've narrowed my choices down to around four; more on that in the next jobhunt update.
Thus begins my countdown to employment. Most people would spend their final days of freedom being a bum at home or going out with friends (although this is impossible for me since all of my friends are already employed). But I am determined to make the most out of this opportunity to learn a few things that I might be able to use at work.
My current to-do list is as follows:
Thus begins my countdown to employment. Most people would spend their final days of freedom being a bum at home or going out with friends (although this is impossible for me since all of my friends are already employed). But I am determined to make the most out of this opportunity to learn a few things that I might be able to use at work.
My current to-do list is as follows:
- Read up on agile software development. Martin Fowler's articles are a good resource; also check out this article for a good overview (with parts 2 and 3). So far, I am a believer. I've done some Extreme Programming before (as an elective) but I never really saw the light before because our instructor was such a pain.
- Learn Ruby on Rails. There's a lot of buzz going around that it's ten times faster to develop a website on RoR; my goal is to separate the hype from reality. From what I hear, it's probably that much faster when compared to PHP, but I'm an ASP.NET person so I'll be coming from a different background. Good tutorial here and an e-book here. I haven't experimented much with it so all I've learned so far is that Microsoft makes the best documentation in the world and that open source communities don't put as much effort.
- Watch Ouran High School Host Club. 13 episodes lined up. Hey, who says I can't bum around just a little?
