16th Jun 2005
If You Had A Month To “Reset” …
This is a followup to my post about FAME, AJAX, & LAMP. As I wind up what I am currently doing, and look forward to the O’Reilly OSCON 2005 (first week of August), I see July as an opportunity to do a lot of intensive study.
Of course, it’d be great to do some part-time gig in July, and I’m certainly capable as is. Don’t get me wrong here :-) I just don’t want to get into a situation where I have to bail on the conference.
What I am thinking is that I want the conference to cap off a period of reorienting full-time to the technologies I want to be a part of.
So here’s where I wish I had a ton of readers, because I’d really love to get some feedback … If you could take a month and just spend time learning tools and methodologies, where would you start? How would you organize it? How would you pace yourself?
The answers are, of course, completely variable from one developer to the next. My general idea is:
- Patterns, Unit Testing - I want to improve
- Eclipse / FAME environment - The OSFlash method of Flash development
- AJAX + WordPress Plugins
- PHP5 + Apache 2 migration
I’m not saying I’m going to master anything in a month. The goal is to bring some skills up to the next level. We all (should) know that most of the development world is constantly moving target.
I do have a project that I can resume that fits nicely into those areas, so I can apply new knowledge to something that’s real. Would be interesting to hear from others that have taken the time to do a “tech reset”. What would did you learn, and how would you have done things differently?
