On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:52:34AM +0000, Martyn Taylor wrote:
Hi Gents,
It's pretty hard work keeping up to speed with all the latest tech stuff
we use in aeolus such as rails and various other libraries, Agile
processes and all that jazz. I and I guess a lot of you guys don't
really get much time to branch out and research something new and
interesting that you feel would help your work, the team or just
something you'd like to look into.
To help a little, I'm hoping to set up a monthly meet, where anyone who
wants to get involved can go away and research a new technical topic by
either reading a technical book or just research a topic online; then
present their findings to the rest of the group. It's a win win
situation, on an individual basis you get say 5 for the price of 1 (i.e.
you read 1 book but get the knowledge of 5) and it's a win for the Team
as a whole as it brings in a whole new set of skills and knowledge into
the group.
Yes! I can't honestly say I have a brilliant topic I'm itching to
present, but this is a really awesome idea, and I'd definitely
participate.
A lot of it's not even necessarily detailed or obscure stuff. I'd like
to learn a bit more about non-basic ARel usage, mastering the "psql" CLI
to run queries in Postgres, and how to do more with SELinux than
"setenforce 0". It's not that these are obscure things that I can't
figure out; I just haven't taken the time to do so. If I'm going to take
the time to learn one, I might as well present it.
-- Matt