Yesterday, Scott and I went up to Charm City to sit in on tutorial day of RailsConf 2011. It was a good enough day. As I don’t know Rails — at all — I went to the Rails for Idiots track. Otherwise known as Rails For Zombies and a live review of the Ruby on [...]
As many of you know, I’m not a fan of technical certifications — it seems like they reward people who can regurgitate technical trivia rather than the ones who can actually do the work (but may not be able to recall the canonical port number for LDAP traffic, as a quick example from both a [...]
As of today, I have one week of online learning under my belt (I’m still not going to say where until I’m officially in. It’s a bit more complicated than it should be). Here are my thoughts so far: If you’re going to have an online class which places a premium on class participation, you [...]
Starting in August, I will be back in the hallowed halls of academia. Hopefully, I should be able to wrap things up by Summer 2011, but that’s going to depend on work and other schedules. Sorry to be coy about where, but I don’t know if I can make that public just yet. In any [...]
From time to time in my work, I have to give educational lectures (my last was an Introductory SQL class for some non-technical people at my office). If you find yourself in that boat, here are some good tips for how to get across your ideas.
Tonight, I went to an open house for GWU’s Engineering Management graduate school. Once upon a time, I actually was working on this very degree — and at GWU, no less. Unfortunately, I was working at Oracle at the time, and life on the road — particularly with a chaotic achdule — did not mesh [...]
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