Learning Rails

I found Learning Rails website recently. LearningRails teaches Rails by podcast. Wow, that's great. I signed up and I completed Lesson 1 today. Enjoy!

Learn something new everyday

I need to spend at least an hour each day to read and learn about something new. I am spending too much time reading meaningless blogs :( Got to stop it and spend time more effectively.

Practices of an agile developer

I watched an interesting talk on "Practices of an Agile Developer". The talk was by Dr Venkat Subramaniam, the co-author, with Andy Hunt, of the book by the same name. Very good presentation done at No Fluff Just Stuff. Enjoy!
Practices of an Agile Developer Presentation

What did you learn today?

We work in a highly evolving, constantly changing industry. Technology changes, methodology changes, tools & even people change. It is hard to keep up with these changes. Even harder when you are trying to learn about all these by yourself. Imagine the amount of knowledge you gain, if you were to learn about something, at least one thing, a day from someone you came across that day. It could be lessons in technology, leadership, even just plain simple life lesson. Let me try to document the lessons I learned each day.

Agile Training

I am registered to attend Scrum Training that's happening here next week. I will also attend Agile Planning & Estimating course too. Great!

Scrum Training

Mike Cohn is conducting Scrum Master training in Dallas during the first week of April. It is followed by one day course in Agile Planning & Estimating. I want to go for this training so so much... It costs about $1900 for both courses together. I have asked my Boss, but has not get a reply yet. Please please let me go..

BTW, I need to pick up both "Agile Planning & Estimating" and "Agile Software Development with Scrum" from the library tomorrow. I had requested the books as Inter Library Loan and it is now available for pickup.

I will go thru the books, but please please let me be able to attend this training.

Tom Demarco's "Peopleware"

is the book that I am reading now. I have heard a lot about this book. The book has been written a long long time ago, yet, still relevant. I will post my thoughts on it once I complete reading it.

This would be the year..

March is about to end. Lot of things changed between January and March. I need to go back to India this year. Maybe end of May. Not sure if I could find a job by then. If not, I will have to quit and search for some job, after settling down in Kerala. Our minds are made up, now we just need to act..

Time to go back?

My parents are looking forward to having me back in India. "Why do you need to stay in US? The opportunities are endless here in India, why don't you come back?", that's what they ask. True, maybe this would be the year for the return. I don't know yet.