Before enrolling at the UW, I was coding thanks to C# Primer Plus and PHP & MySQL web development.
Educational books have provided me employment opportunities (first coding job @ 100m+ company @ age 16 from self teaching) && recreational books have really changed the way I think about the world and problems (outliers, smartcuts).
Books inspired me to write, and publish my first coding book and more recently inspired me to start a free educational channel: https://www.youtube.com/devfactor
There is so much you can distill into a book, its difficult to match with other mediums.
Your feedback isn't very constructive, and reflects poorly on your time management skills.
200 bugs is just two bugs per week for two years. At three hours per bug, that's 6 hours per week - 312/yr and 614 total. Significantly less than a college degree.
Alternatively, spend some time learning to code: https://www.youtube.com/devfactor - build some cool projects and present them to your employer.
I think that's a bit optimistic. To be honest I don't come across that many bugs in open source software. Google and Apple products, yes, but I generally don't have access to their source. Right now there are just a couple of open source bugs that are annoying me, but each of those would likely take me at least a few weeks of full-time work to track down.
IMO you're much better actually building something impressive rather than fixing a bunch of bugs if you're looking for a job.
After spending some time with (paid) projects like TreeHouse, RailsApps, BaseRails - I opted to start producing similar content but at a different cost (free!).
I'm hoping my series can help some of you become more familiar with Rails - and feel free to sub to me if you like it :)
The current model includes an "awards feed", where you can verify the completion of "goals" set previously. Verification is done by a voting system and requires video or images.
Currently, funds are distributed based on the popularity (votes) a completed goal receives from the community.
During the development of http://rivalz.io/ we have been using Flurry analytics, and its been an excellent alternative to the bloat that is GAnalytics.
I'm very happy to see that Yahoo is pushing Flurry support and integrating it into so many of their products.
It's important to also note, that retro designs where quite frankly a lot more simple than modern designs. One of our inspirations for http://rivalz.io/ was the Mac OS 1 (1984) because it easily organized all of the features you wanted, without any extras or bloat.
Today's design is so superficial, that a large chunk of applications/games/ui is just fluff and sometimes distracts from the main experience.
Cloudflare. I used to work at F5 and everyone pretended they didn't exist. Than all of the sudden they have like half of the market in their pocket. Taking an old product, making it seemless and offering it for freemium.
How it works:
Retweet a RoboMotivator post on Twitter.
RoboMotivator records all retweets as positive feedback, and analyzes the quote based off of proximity of nouns in a quote. By regularly retweeting RoboMotivator, he better learns his target audience and will be more likely to tweet topics relevant to the interests of his followers.
I can help if you see any bugs: @andhofmt | www.andrewdhoffman.com
Yes, more people contributing to Kandan would be awesome! My email is in my profile, feel free to shoot me a message and I can help you get setup (anyone else reading this message, feel free to do the same as well if you have trouble not getting Kandan working).
Linux Mint (Cinnamon). Was on Ubuntu, but found that I was much more productive on Mint - as Ubuntu has become too feature rich and I don't use most of what they offer.
Mint has been a great platform for rails development, easily integrating with all the test and dev tools I needed.
Before enrolling at the UW, I was coding thanks to C# Primer Plus and PHP & MySQL web development.
Educational books have provided me employment opportunities (first coding job @ 100m+ company @ age 16 from self teaching) && recreational books have really changed the way I think about the world and problems (outliers, smartcuts).
Books inspired me to write, and publish my first coding book and more recently inspired me to start a free educational channel: https://www.youtube.com/devfactor
There is so much you can distill into a book, its difficult to match with other mediums.