I have been learning about mapping. Using leafletjs to incorporate mapping elements in web applications. Building check-in operations based on current location, placing markers/icons and modifying the icon color to represent data values and making it easy for users to contribute location data that is currently missing from the data set.
I am also exploring options for efficiently storing sparse matrix data, doing automated statistical distance/similarity analysis and storing all-to-all distance measures back into a database.
I'm a Python programmer but I have some familiarity with Java, but I haven't really touched Java in over five years, so I've been refreshing my mind with the recent Java 8 docs and it's been a pretty fun experience so far.
Started a project using AngularJS. I'm finding it quite fun and exciting. I have a decent JQuery background and find myself having to actively refrain from using JQuery. Trying to learning the "Angular way" of doing things.
Grails. I'm a C#/.NET programmer. I've been trying out Scala with Play, and Clojure with Luminus, and RoR before then. Grails is making me the happiest as an open source alternative to C#.
As wrong as this may sound. I read and have mostly Chinese co-workers to ask, correct me, etc. My local community college also offers classes that I am going to take in the fall.
I'm spending a lot of my free with Erlang and Elixir, a Ruby-syntax inspired language that runs on the same VM as Erlang. I'm enjoying Elixir a lot and finding it adds some clarity to the little things I'm writing with it.
I'm learning how to be better. I started reading Farnam Street about two months ago, and picked up Ryan Holiday's The Obstacle is the Way two weeks ago. Meditations: A New Translation and Thinking Fast and Slow are on their way. I'm facing not a crisis of self, but a realization that I am at a point where in order to move forward, and achieve what I want to achieve, I have some huge ego driven flaws that require a megalithic perspective shift.
Awesome I agree. Read this several years ago! Great book! The observer is such a powerful concept, also covered in practical detail by Holiday. Thank you, though, and check this out: http://lionserpent.com/unity.html :)
Django and the Django Rest Framework. I develop android apps but it feels I lack skills in creating web services. Also, I'm learning how to solve problems - it's a tough one
SICP. It's my first introduction to functional or object-oriented programming. It's making me want to minimize mutable data/state in my projects from now on.
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Android development. So far, it is the exact opposite of what fun with computers is.
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You _will_ need a teacher (native speaker) from the beginning, to correct your pronunciation (mainly tones) before you develop bad habits.
I found it incredibly useful.
A lot of people suggested I get straight into Swift but some of my clients need help with their existing apps so I chose to start with Obj-C.