In the coming month there are three courses I’ll be teaching here in the grand city of Portland, Oregon. Two of the courses are one day Unix & Git for Everyone (Jan 31 and Feb 28) courses and the big course is the Computer Science & Web Development Bootcamp (Feb 2 – Feb 27). So if you’re interested in ramping up and becoming a software developer sooner than later, check out the courses and more on the Code Fellows Site, follow the PDX Code Fellows Twitter or Code Fellows Twitter, and like the Facebook Page.
I’ll have more information about teach, training, mentoring and other projects I have on the cooker over the course of today.
This coming week I’m doing an intro to work and flow with Node.js JavaScript Programming that I’m working with JetBrains on. In the webinar I’ll be covering the following key topics in the webinar:
Open an existing project & getting WebStorm configured for running, testing and related working tasks.
A quick tour of other IDE features that help with daily work. Some in pretty huge ways.
These WebStorm Tutorials have been put together by John Lindquist @johnlindquist for JetBrains. There solid, quick snippets of useful WebStorm usage. Two that I’ve found really useful I’ve included here:
Coming Up in the Near Future, The Work & Flow of JavaScript Development
I have a new course I’m working on right now for Pluralsight, that will take these basic precepts and dive even deeper into the daily workflow of the JavaScript Developer. Whether it’s client side hacking or server side coding, I’ll be diving into a whole lot of JavaScript goodness. If you’d like me to ping you when the course is done, hit me up on Twitter @adron and just let me know. In the meantime get a Pluralsight subscription (free to sign up and at least give it a try) and check out these courses by myself and others.
Several people got together yesterday to start planning things for 2014 in PDX. It ranged from coding workshops to PDX Node to Node PDX to what kind of food to eat at for lunch. Ya know, daily tactical things that come along with the big picture items. 😉
bridge.js badge.
Two things that I want to bring up to the community out there. One is a workshop that I’ll likely lead efforts to organize and the other is something I’ll just call pdxbridge.js for now. The workshop will cover the topics of which and what databases to use for what data and how to implement. The pdxbridge.js project is about determining the raised or lowered state of the bridges here in Portland.
Some of the other projects, workshops and other topics we discussed included getting a workshop put together around unit, integration and testing code from a behavioral, test driven development or other approaches. This workshop we don’t have anyone to teach, but we’d (ok, so I really really would love to attend a workshop on this) really like to find somebody who would be willing to teach a workshop of this sort, with a focus on Javascript as the language. On that same topic however, if you’re into Java, Erlang, Scala, Haskell or others and would like to teach a TDD, BDD or related testing workshop please get in touch with me. We will work on making that happen! Ping me at adron at composite code dot com. 😉
This is a course I’ll lead and others will work with me on to put something extra useful together. We will then teach the workshop as a group, kind of a team paired programming teaching workshop. If there is anything in particular that you’d like to learn about, any questions that you have about data and usage in applications or otherwise add your two cents on this blog entries comments. Over the next month we’ll be putting together the material and have the course available sometime early this year. So if you’d like to attend, jump in at any time with the conversation or just keep a read here and I’ll have more information about the course as we get it put together.
Let’s Make pdxbridge.js Happen!
The pdxbridge.js project is all about determining if a bridge in Portland is up or down. Right now there are several bridges that matter, that are on this list;
If we add other information to track about the bridges we might add the other 3 that exist and the new bridge that is being built. however the five listed are the only bridges that have a raised and lowered state, and in one case the Steel Bridge has a lowered, partially raised and fully raised state. As shown on the pdxbridge.js badge I threw together (shown above).
Often a programmer sits back and reflects on, “how can I get better at my job?” A number of months ago I found myself sitting with that same reflection. One of the many ideas that popped into my head was to put together focused material around a topic. Training material, a blog series or something else. I wasn’t sure just yet what it would be, but I knew that was one of the many things I wanted to do. Fast forward a few months.
Fellow Tier 3 coder Richard Seroter, who I’d known for some time via his blog “Richard Seroter’s Architecture Musings” and I had a conversation about what we do, respectively, to keep our skills honed in tech. He brought up he’d be putting together material for Pluralsight for a while now and enjoyed that. It struck me as something I’d like to do too, considering my past reflection, so he made an intro. The rest is history!
Pluralsight Author, Achievement Reached
I’m now a Pluralsight Author (my author’s page) with my first course on Riak Fundamentals. I’m now working on a second course, on Docker Fundamentals. I’ve got a lot more in the queue after that too, so I hope to keep producing a lot of material on everything from the big languages these days like Javascript, Java, Ruby and C# to lesser knowns like Erlang, Go and maybe some others to boot.
For now, check out my Riak Fundamentals Course and some of the other great material that Pluralsight has available. They’ve just acquired TekPub, Peepcode and a number of other companies too, so when you subscribe you don’t just get all the Pluralsight material but also access to all the material at these excellent course creating companies! In the coming days and weeks I’ll have some reviews of other courses I enjoyed. As always, enjoy, subscribe to my blog, subscribe to Pluralsight and cheers!
A few months ago I posted a poll to ask what courses I should put together next. I just wrapped up and am putting the final edits and finishing touches on a Pluralsight Course on distributed databases, focusing on Riak. On the poll the top three courses, by a decent percentage of votes included the following:
Node.js Distributed Systems – Bringing the Node.js Nodes together for Distributed Noes of Availability and Compute @ 12.14% of the vote.
A Quick Intro to Node.js
Introduction to Relevant Distributed Patterns
How Does Node.js Fit Into the Distribution
Working With Distributed Systems (AKA Avoiding a Big Ball of Mud)
Build a Demo
Distributed Systems Programming with Javascript @ 10.4% of the vote.
Patterns for Distributed Programming
…and I’m figuring the other sections out still for this one… got ideas? It needs to encompass the client side as well as the non-client code side of things. So it’s sort of like the above course, but I’m focusing more on the periphery of what one deals with when dealing with developing on and around distributed systems as well as distributed systems themselves.
Vagrant OS-X, Windows and Linux – how to build, manage and ship machines to use for development and recreation of production environments.
Vagrant, What is it?
OS-X, Linux and Windows
Using Vagrant Machines
Building Vagrant Dev Machines
Vagrant the Universe!
Now I might flip this list, but either way they’re all going to be super cool. So stay tuned and I’ll be working up these into courses. So far here’s the sub-bullets above are the basics of the curriculum I intend to put forward. Am I missing anything? Would you like to see anything specifically? Leave a comment and I’ll be sure to get everything as packed in there as possible!!
In the coming month there are three courses I’ll be teaching here in the grand city of Portland, Oregon. Two of the courses are one day Unix & Git for Everyone (Jan 31 and Feb 28) courses and the big course is the Computer Science & Web Development Bootcamp (Feb 2 – Feb 27). So if you’re interested in ramping up and becoming a software developer sooner than later, check out the courses and more on the Code Fellows Site, follow the PDX Code Fellows Twitter or Code Fellows Twitter, and like the Facebook Page.
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