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What is of Interest to you at the Moment? #11

Open neilmanuell opened 10 years ago

mnem commented 10 years ago

At the moment I'm interested in things I mostly haven't started working with yet (because reality becomes dull):

As I said, I have no real experience in any of those yet, but I could probably make something up :) The AI one is likely to be the one I explore the most before October, but it's pretty game specific so I'm not sure if it will be of general interest.

angerelle commented 10 years ago

I'm currently piloting AngularJS (in a refresh of a project that is currently Flex based). I really want to get automated end to end tests running and keen on getting BDD working properly (at all!) all the way from business to developer and back again. I'm also learning about managing people, building a team, dealing with effects that technical decisions have on people, just learning where I fit into the role of technical lead, what I can bring. I'm a bit self obsessed at the moment, but sure this will have passed by October :-)

Stray commented 10 years ago

Sounds bloody challenging, Angela!

To be honest, I've barely worked for a year until this last month - only dribs and drabs between the dramas. BUT all that is a-changin'.

My main project is still Air / Flash. I've recently picked up some evenings-and-weekends banner work (thank you Neil!) for Google DoubleClick - I'd sworn off of that sort of throw-away stuff but I'm working direct with the client and they're a music publishers, so it feels like a domain in which capitalism and disposable content isn't misplaced.

The banner stuff is making me get interested in tooling for small jobs. When is building your own tooling actually worth it?

[Just realised these may be the world's only TDD'd banners]

Interesting that so many folks are transitioning into management... the other thing I'm doing is writing my Dad's book, which is on "Attractive leadership" - which is his bringing together of complexity sciences and some social sciences stuff.

It has relevance to user story / requirements / spec / estimating blah blah as well... so maybe a grounded whizz through that would be useful..?

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neilmanuell commented 10 years ago

@Stray hows your AI book going?

Stray commented 10 years ago

'tis abandoned - can't afford to be working unpaid now and the hourly rate for even a successful book is about 3 pence :)

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Stray commented 10 years ago

Swift swift swift swift! Which looks rather like the ECMA-6 / js.next stuff that Till gave us a rip through a couple of TH's ago, non?

Stray commented 10 years ago

Also... I'm helping my Dad write a book on his life's-work stuff on complexity and capability and leadership. The complexity/capability stuff has applications in software design, team working, career planning - worms into everything really - so there is likely to be something very useful there, if people are interested.

mnem commented 10 years ago

They’ve pulled off the neat trick of making it look like every language :)

http://www.mrspeaker.net/2014/06/04/selling-swift/

Personally I thought of CoffeeScript and Rust. Maybe it’s a Rorschach language :)

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Swift swift swift swift! Which looks rather like the ECMA-6 / js.next stuff that Till gave us a rip through a couple of TH's ago, non?

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Stray commented 10 years ago

That list is amazing! Thanks D!

richardlord commented 10 years ago

I started playing with Swift, just a little. It's certainly a big improvement on Obj-C. The lead developer was apparently influenced by "Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list" - http://nondot.org/sabre/

neilmanuell commented 10 years ago

Well, my plan was this year to start learning android flavoured java. Not really interested in objectionable-c. But this might even start me considering mac based dev.

tam203 commented 10 years ago

I'm definitely interested in Swift but it's definitely given me that "I'm I betting on the wrong horse" feeling, which is daft given the number of horses and how a bet on one horse can be transferred over to another and well the analogy breaks down. But yeah if anyone covers Swift I'm keen.

@Stray I'd be really interested in Attractive Leadership, complexity and capability and leadership and all that Jazz. As Scott Adams put's it we are moist robots and I'm interested in how to program myself and others.

For myself I'm considering talking around either Hackathons, what we can learn from them and if this is useful or transferable into day-to-day corporate development or about if it's important to shift (and recognise your) paradigms when you change languages/tools, how you might do this, etc (this is coming from a move from Flex to JS where I'm not sure we are doing this).