http://ifacethoughts.net/2006/10/31/out-of-job-thinking/ Thoughts on software development and related, by Abhijit Nadgouda Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:59:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://ifacethoughts.net/2006/10/31/out-of-job-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-331880 Dealing With Boredom At Work | iface thoughts Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:37:11 +0000 http://ifacethoughts.net/2006/10/31/out-of-job-thinking/#comment-331880 [...] My answer - learn a programming language or an open source framework. If you use Java at work, learn PHP or Groovy or Python or Scala or Lua. If you want something radically different, learn Haskell or Erlang. If you are not interested in languages, learn frameworks. If you are working with Web, learn Django or Ruby on Rails or Symfony. Or learn the minimalistic ones like CodeIgniter or web.py or Apache Wicket. Or learn about software development methodologies and their benefits. Each of them will tell you learn more than the technology. They will help you realize the mistakes you are doing at work, or improved ways of doing some things. Or especially if you have started building stock solutions because of the monotone. Maybe they will also help you do out-of-job thinking. [...] [...] My answer – learn a programming language or an open source framework. If you use Java at work, learn PHP or Groovy or Python or Scala or Lua. If you want something radically different, learn Haskell or Erlang. If you are not interested in languages, learn frameworks. If you are working with Web, learn Django or Ruby on Rails or Symfony. Or learn the minimalistic ones like CodeIgniter or web.py or Apache Wicket. Or learn about software development methodologies and their benefits. Each of them will tell you learn more than the technology. They will help you realize the mistakes you are doing at work, or improved ways of doing some things. Or especially if you have started building stock solutions because of the monotone. Maybe they will also help you do out-of-job thinking. [...]

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]]> http://ifacethoughts.net/2006/10/31/out-of-job-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-139210 The Difference Is A Self Belief | iface thoughts Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:42:31 +0000 http://ifacethoughts.net/2006/10/31/out-of-job-thinking/#comment-139210 [...] And the best attempt you can make at it is to learn outside of your job, which I call out of job thinking. It is not about yearning to learn every new programming language or paradigm or hack into a new [...] [...] And the best attempt you can make at it is to learn outside of your job, which I call out of job thinking. It is not about yearning to learn every new programming language or paradigm or hack into a new [...]

]]> http://ifacethoughts.net/2006/10/31/out-of-job-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-2566 On Blogging, Again on iface thoughts Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:15:06 +0000 http://ifacethoughts.net/2006/10/31/out-of-job-thinking/#comment-2566 [...] One of the other ones that I enjoyed thoroughly was JP’s musings on learning and blogging. It is one of the crisp pieces that keeps on enhancing the point as you read on. Apart from that I have witnessed the marriage of learning and blogging. It has impacted what I know, it has led to thinking outside of my job and most importantly it has enabled self-expression, which is what I am doing while I am writing this. Self expression is a debate with yourself and hence the best way of learning. This is the biggest advantage to me, and I had been sorely missing this before I started blogging. [...] [...] One of the other ones that I enjoyed thoroughly was JP’s musings on learning and blogging. It is one of the crisp pieces that keeps on enhancing the point as you read on. Apart from that I have witnessed the marriage of learning and blogging. It has impacted what I know, it has led to thinking outside of my job and most importantly it has enabled self-expression, which is what I am doing while I am writing this. Self expression is a debate with yourself and hence the best way of learning. This is the biggest advantage to me, and I had been sorely missing this before I started blogging. [...]

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