- I am learning Django/python (caught the functional programming bug) and facing my UI design fears head on.

- I am improving my linux skills as I've been on my ubuntu partition for almost 2 weeks without booting into vista (making the switch gradually).

- Brushing up my c#/asp.net skills using mono and monodevelop 2.0. Really enjoying the IDE.

* Learning ruby, rails, and git (and absolutely loving it) by making a site and putting it up on heroku

* Reading the Eric Evens DDD book (not exactly light reading material)

* Getting my feet wet with FubuMVC, Erlang, and F#

I'm working on F# (esp. async and monads), IronRuby, Silverlight, HTTP/REST as an ESB, and Vim. It's an exciting time to be a dev with all the new stuff (and old) to learn!

@Karl

Not exactly an expert, but IMO the big plus for Django is the professional manner that adrian runs things, and how clean the implementation is so far. Also, it is quite freeing to not have to write your own admin interface. It is downright indecent how fast you can go from idea to going live with django because of that one feature.

@Karl:

Nice, I didn't know Web2Py was an MVC framework. I'll play around with it. Keep up the great work you are doing mate. Cheers.

Hi Karl,

This is my first comment on your blog. Your blog had improve me a lot. Thanks to you.

What i had learned:

- Start applying TDD using NUnit in my development.

-Using AOP (Log4PostSharp) for my logging purpose. It is quite useful framework.

mac:~ marknijhof$ trollmode

trollmode$ I have decided that learning is a waste of time as

trollmode$ things keep changing and I can never know it all.

trollmode$ exit

exit

mac:~ marknijhof$

-Mark

Kinda forced into learning Flex this year, and I kinda like it.  I continue to write little Ruby based scripts (using rake) as well as messing with Rails sites.

Things on the radar:

- The new WCF Facility for Windsor....much has changed since I last used it.

- jQuery.  Have used it, but I need to KNOW it.

- Figure out how to use PowerShell more

Congrats Carl!

I also think Uncle Bob says it well, and I love the fact call the suits for business wonks. Haha, it’s so funny.

Totally agree with you that Twitter is an indispensable tool for picking up new trends and to communicate with the community. I would be interesting to know more about your other sources besides Twitter - what blogs your read, books etc.

Why did you move away from Django? I’ve been using it for small little endeavor I had coding an app on top of Google App Engine. I loved it and Python as a language, but I missed the scaffolding functionality of Ruby on Rails.

I’ll try to respond to your post soon by a blog post my self:)

Cheers

Gøran

@goeran

PowerShell's big on my radar. MS is using it to administer more and more tools.

I'm thinking about digging into NHibernate (we're currently using a different OR/M).

Looking at Lean to see what it offers over Agile/Scrum/XP.

Other than that, always trying to improve my design, SOLID principles, testing, etc.

Boo and DSL  : http://manning.com/rahien/

and the BDD mindset : pragprog.com/.../the-rspec-book

I'm on a similar path - working more projects into .NET MVC - I also want to properly learn nHibernate and FluentHibernate, along with reading up on DDD :)

Karl for django, I would guess it's the fact the "Template" is the View of MVC,  the View in django is the controller of MVC...

as seen here :

docs.djangoproject.com/.../general

I'm learning how to teach people TDD, pair programming a lot more often (not by the book pairing but just "hey come help me with this" type of pairing). I'm working heavily on refactoring to remove duplication and cleaner, less complicated designs so that quality improves and maintenence is less.

I'm trying to understand how to deliver value to my company with every minute i spend 'in the code' and out of the code.

I'm trying not to be an 'agile nazi' but a communicative collaborator who teaches explains the whys and gently brings people through the paces of making those painful mistakes that make good engineering practices reasonable.

I'm trying not to be a preacher but a leader.

Learned to use TDD, MSTest for now but I think it is good start, learn about DI and Constructor injection and how code should be constructed, learned and used jQuery, finished first project in asp.net mvc, interested in ruby, python and silverlight 3.0

cheers

p.s. I like your captcha :)

- I'm improving my distributed storage skills

- Learning Scala/Lift

- I'm slowly learning Haskell and Lua

- Creating my first games using JMonkeyEngine

Few things for me:

- Git (using it at home now over Subversion)

- Fluent NHibernate (a couple of personal projects)

- JQuery (starting on some more advanced stuff now)

- Google Maps API

- CQL (NDepend)

- Python (just beginner stuff for now)

Nothing useful to add. Just ate my heart out and completely hate you!

I find that every time I start doing TDD, I end up drifting back to Test After Develpment, so my big goal is to stick to TDD for an entire project.  Throw in some ASP.NET MVC and JQuery and those are my IT goals over the next few months.

On a personal note, it's been over 14 years since I've dunked a basketball on a regulation net (back in a varsity college game), so my goal is to be dunking by the end of the summer....I have a feeling at 35 that might be harder than anything else on my list. ;)

Something I don't see being addressed that often - When you say you read a lot, is that on your own time, or do you actually spend time at work reading? I think spending time at work reading & learning is justifiable, although not always easy.

#.think.in infoDose #28 (29th Apr - 8th May)

it is continuous process, which never end.

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