I was recently made painfully aware my Rails skills are suffering. I need a plan of attack to get and keep my skills sharp. What am I going to do? Well here it is, my plan:
The Plan
- 1. Blog More
- I’m going to start a new series, of sorts. I’m going to start an Engineer Notebook, tidbits of information I’ve discovered and/or found useful and I want to share. The entries will start with ‘NTS:’ -> which stands for Note To Self.
- 2. Read More
- There are a few blogs that I need to go back and start paying attention to, like Daigle’s blog. I have a few PDFs and books I need to read and continue reading. I also plan to continue my online CS reading list, albeit not as high a priority.
- 3 Listen More
- Like the blogs and books there are a few podcasts I should be listening to; there’s the Rails Envy podcast, the Railscast podcast.
- 4. Do More
- I’m going to write a b-billion small Rails apps and keep them on my local machine. Right now I’m not sure what kind of apps I’m going to write.
As much as I love Smalltalk, I feel right now it makes more sense to pursue a career in Ruby on Rails. Smalltalk still holds a special place in my heart, always will. Looks like I’ll get there through Ruby.
I welcome your suggestions as well.
Cheers!
