Nerd Nights – A Habit Worth Having
April 13th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
So, since the year started (I know, it’s April) I’ve been on this ever growing quest to make the most and do the most. I broke out the year by quarter and set my goals that way, categorized into career, fitness, and social life.
Well, one of the things that has come out of my goals is Nerd Nights, which is where I get together with some of my friends and either talk shop or work on a development project. In the first quarter, project Winter Harvest, we worked on a project-crawling tool in .NET that would read the files within a folder and harvest out the meta data elements to provide information about which databases, tables, and connection strings were used to tie the application together. This was a really cool experience because I got exposure to git, StructureMap, and got to program in C#.
In this (second) quarter, we will learning Ruby on Rails. While we’re still getting up to speed on the Ruby language and Rails framework, I’m really excited about the opportunity to put my skills to use outside of work. This promises to be solid experience being built on the side, and hopefully I will have creative solutions for the bank after that.
Also, on the frequency of my postings, I hope to be able to come back here after our weekly meetings to post some thoughts on what I learned. So, hopefully I’ll be able to post more frequently that way. Stay tuned…
