Learning
I recently read on twitter that CodeSchool had a free course, Shaping up with Angular.js. I’ve already been deep diving into Angular.js for a couple of weeks now, but I decided to pause and see if there was anything I was missing.
I have to say that CodeSchool did a great job with the content. If you’re a JavaScript developer looking to dive into Angular, this is a great (and free) place to start and form your own opinion on it.
My wife is off for a 24 hour codefest (/jealous) and left me at home with the kids for the night. I decided do my own codefest since one kid went to a sleepover and another kid is hosting his own sleepover here at home.
We use backbone at work, which, I’m not so hot with. Just something about it drives me nuts. I wanted to learn something different and waffled back and forth on Ember and Angular for about a week.
In attempts to become a polyglot, I’ve been learning a language outside of my day job language (CFML). Aaron Greenlee suggested I take a look at Go Programming Language. So, I’ve been poking at it with a stick here and there.
Every growing links I find useful:
http://golang.org
https://gobyexample.com
http://goinggo.net/
http://golang-examples.tumblr.com
http://go-book.appspot.com
http://dave.cheney.net/resources-for-new-go-programmers
Crazy fun tcp/websocket talk - http://vimeo.com/53221560
Late 2012, I was laid off from a 12 year job which turned out to be an inconvenient blessing in disguise. I rushed to get my resume out there and I fielded a bunch of opportunities. I was rather surprised that some of them were for remote work. I had never worked remotely before, so I didn’t know if it was going to be a good fit for me at all.