rubyonrailsin

Andy Jeffries wrote:

> So, just to ensure I'm clear - are you asking for shortcuts to be able
> to
> get you straight in to a senior position - or just after hints to
> improve so
> you may take a non-senior position and work up to it?
>
Well, if you happen to know black magic, I'll buy a shortcut for 400;
otherwise, the proper way to do things would suit me just fine :-)
>
>> Most of my
>> free time is spent studying and teaching martial arts, something which I
>> would not trade for the world.
>>
> I feel you, I love teaching Taekwondo...
Ooh.. Where do you teach? (I know, we're going off-topic!)
>>
>
> Practice. Start thinking of small, useful ideas and launch sites for
> them.
> They could be small sites (dynamically generated) with documentation,
> or
> search engine automation/mashups. You then get to practice automated
> testing, deployment, development.
*nod*
>
> Set up a github account and make some gems/plugins and put them on there
> for
> potential employers to find.
http://github.com/Trevoke :-)
>
> Start trying to help people on here - I always found that in putting
> forward
> help to those just coming in helped solidify my own learning, sometimes
> I
> was right (and got a hearty thanks), sometimes I was wrong (and got the
> chance to learn when a more senior developer chimed in). Either way,
> you're
> getting value. Soon you'll be at a point when you can do everything and
> easily answer questions in interviews (and then you can give more back).
>
> It boils down to learn, practice, teach - the same as in martial arts,
> each
> stage has it's own learnings and each is important.
>

Understood :) And as far as the search for a position, it's .. Standard
operating procedure?
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.