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Hello!
I'm a dev evangelist focusing on an open-source ETL project. Previous to that I was a dev evangelist & senior product manager in AI. I started as a front-end dev and have recently taken up Python. I'd love to find open-source projects to contribute to and get involved in.
Thanks!
Ash
Hi Ash! I really love Hood.ie - Gregor is a fantastic maintainer that will help you get started on a bug fix or a feature. Highly recommend checking them out (then blogging your experience here!)
Ohh, great info Juanita. I'm going to check them out also. I've been looking for a a friendly project to start contributing to.
Awesome! I've heard fo hood.ie. I'll check them out. Thanks!
Hey Ash, welcome to the community. How'd you get into evangelism? It always seems like folks have a fun ride getting there.
Howdy! Excellent question. I definitely agree there isn't a straight path really. I started out as a front end dev and then moved into product for apis for a few years actually. Kinda go back and forth but getting back into coding more. I really like working with devs and building stuff so found my niche! 😊
hi everyone! I've been doing custom wordpress sites for about 6 years as a freelancer, started when I was in college and have continued since I graduated last year. recently I've stepped into a front end role for a C# application and am loving it so far
outside of dev world I'm all about music. I play in an emo band and go on tour a couple times a year (sleeping in a van, no WIFI, what???)
WHAT'S YOUR BAND CALLED? 😻
it's called citysick! we be on spotify n stuff. new music coming out end of august :)
How was the transition from Wordpress to the C# app? Different expectations?
it was actually way easier than i thought it would be since i can actually edit the source HTML rather than use a template override, filter, or whatever. there is a C# guru doing all the hard C# stuff though, I'm mostly just changing the cshtml and moving things around
Awesome, congrats on your new role. Sounds like it's going to be balancing act between your job and the band. That's a great way to get away from the screen though.
thanks! yeah it can be a challenge but luckily my boss is super cool about it. his sons do music and the app I'm working on is music centered so it makes sense!
and yea, it's a great release especially after a day of hairy bugs
hey everyone, i'm kevin.
I started the journey 18 months ago; I first studied RoR in a coding bootcamp. Got a job at an airline company & learned Nodejs on the go to build Lambda functions for work. Right now i'm the devops lead for an e-commerce venture the under my company. Our stack primarily Magento 2, Angular 2 running on AWS.
In my free time i learn python for text sentiment analysis & the backend of an airline chatbot. Not pro-AWS but familiar; not anti-GCP either.
Who here are from airline companies? Say hi! :)
Not from an airline company, but that does make me think about what airline companies do with software more.
Also, you're killing it; 18 months later and you're a DevOps lead? Congrats dude!
Thanks man. It was a super bumpy ride with countless mistakes.
There's plenty of ways airlines seek to innovate from facial-recognition to speed up check-ins to buying flights and luggage via an AI assistant.
but to get to lead the devops my coding time had to take a hit. gotta spend less time looking at Cloudwatch dashboards!
I for one am looking forward to the day where we have instant check-ins on planes. Or luggage tracking! I've never had my luggage go missing but I imagine it must be a nightmare.
I don't think I'll ever stop wanting to code. I'm sure that'll change a bit in say, 18 months, but maybe not. Are you going to keep up with side projects or have you done a bit of coding as a DevOps lead?
Hello! I'm Janno from Tallinn, Estonia. I've been coding for living since 2002... I've been working with certain Microsoft ERP platform but during last 8 years I've done iOS development and also web development. Swift, Ruby, JavaScript and a little Java and Python. RoR, Django and React. But development itself is not my sole interest ... I also want to learn to design UI/UX ... but first of all, I love to solve problems (which can be solved with coding/software).
It is all about solutions, isn't it? I'm also beginning to teach myself UI/UX to better support my team. I'm looking into a MOOC I can take to start learning a bit more formally though and plan to enter a hackathon soon as UX/UI to improve. How are you planning ot learn design?
Hi! I think I'm going to look at product design and interaction design in general before I dig into UX/UI world. Found myself a book called About Face.
amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-I...
Haven't decided how or where to learn/study UX/UI design though :)
Hi all :)
I am a very passionate Developer... I really love programming to the point I get my wife being jealous of my Laptop ;)
As a self teached developer I am hungry to learn and play with new stuff all the time, like Docker, Apache Kafka, Rust and any cool stuff I came around in Twitter or other interesting places on the internet, dev.to is one of them recently.
I spent my time in OOP land, being a strong advocate of SOLID and Clean Code I really recommend for any Developer to read our Bible, The Pragmatic Programmer book, followed by the Clean Code book. This books changed the way a code forever and led me to creation of the Resource Design Pattern.
But recently I discovered a language with a huge potential on The Canary And The Caterpillar talk by Neil Crawford in this DevOps meetup around moving from Monolithic to Micro-Services architecture using Elixir.
So after reading the articles why Elixir and Why Elixir has Great Potential plus some more Youtube videos with real use cases of adopting it for massive and demanding projects I just got really hooked on it to the point of establish this learning path for Elixir.
Currently I am professionally working on the backend team that builds, in PHP7, the API's for the e-commerce Apps that we develop and maintain for some of the biggest UK retailers.
If you are curious to know more about me just visit exadra37.com or search in Google for my nickname.
Feel free to ask any question you may be wondering the answer for ;)
Great to have you. We'd love love love more Elixir content if you'd like to submit some posts 😁
On the moment I am just learning Elixir, but I will be glad to contribute once I have something useful that I can share ;)
I should really finish the Pragmatic Programmer and Clean Code, thanks for the reminder of how awesome they are. I love how excited you are about Elixir, I've been hearing buzz around it but as a super new dev I am not familiar with how it could be applied in web dev. I'd love to read some of what you think and you go deeper into it :).
That books are very important to understand the principles of writing solid and clean code.
For web developments is very well suited... see techworld.com/apps-wearables/how-e...
The Phoenix framework makes easy to start with web development in Elixir, see phoenixframework.org
Hello! I'm Pam, an engineer in the DC area with a background in architecture and design. I currently work in media coding in Ruby, Rails, and lots of Vanilla.js. I'll be moving from revenue work to systems engineering in a bit and I'm pretty excited about that! Advice from other systems engineers is always appreciated as I thread these new waters.
In my free time, I run an organization called Color Coded which is all about inclusivity and learning new skills in tech. Besides that, I'm working on learning some React and React Native for side projects and try to do a challenge daily on Exercism
Excited to be here!
Welcome, Pamela! Color Coded looks like an amazing organization. Please let me know once some Merch is available :)
Don't hesitate to start a #discuss thread to spur some conversation around systems engineering topics, and be sure to share the knowledge as you continue learning React / React Native.
Happy to have you here!
We write a lot of vanilla js too :)
Hi everybody!
I use python for data science and ruby for web development.
Now, i'm studying about sentiment analysis system and trying development through python.
Also i practise martial arts in my free time!!
Thanks!!!
Hey Santi! I take mixed martial arts during every season except summer, a mix of Muay thai, Sinawali/Kali, and Wing Chung (with occasional Tai Chi and fencing workshops). Opinion mining fascinates me, anything particularly cool that you've learned about it recently?
Hi Everyone,
I am newbie in the industry with passion for development and learning coding. I like Java & Ruby in general, I been using Linux for a while, I am continuously trying to increase my skills for development in Java and ruby and I particularly like Practical DEV as it provides the solid platform for the newbies like me to enhanced my knowledge and fulfill my passion.
Thanks
OverDue
Love hearing that you digging the platform as a "newbie"! Although you know Java and Linux, which I really don't know much about, so maybe not-so-newbie after all?
Thanks Andy if i would have done program like you in Ruby and JavaScript then can say yes not a newbie :-) but me absolute zero in development, Java me only trying to learn and need some good guidance to way forward ...
Hey folks, I'm a golang, C, python dev and am excited to join the community. Been working in fintech for about 12 years, active contributor to all things open source!
I'm originally from Canada but live in the US now, maybe time to go back? :D
Where in Canada? I'm from Halifax.
From Toronto, and that's just crazy. Small world no doubt.
Actually was wondering if dev.to was based from Toronto...long shot but it stuck out in my mind hehe.
Based in New York 😊
I was born and raised in Canada but am currently located south of the border.
Sweet, just moved to Chicago last year from NYC. Good times, but kids have their impact :/
Thanks for putting together the site, it's a pretty sweet resource. Glad to be part of the community.
Hello everyone, my name is GabrielLacerda, My main programing language is Javascript and I'm working very well with other languages like Python and Php, I'd like to learn the react way of doing things, at this moment this is something a little difficult me to understand this whole things, thank you guys :)
Welcome Gabriel! We've got some great articles on React via the React tag page, such as this one: Learning React? Start Small