Start a side project, says GitHub founder

Re:Start a side project, says GitHub founder by ambition on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @11:36PM (#282299)

A to-do list.

Without reading books, in a few Sundays:

  * Play with Sinatra (learn Ruby)
  * Play with server-side JS
  * Master JS
  * Master an editor and learn the others
  * Write a web service
  * Learn Objective-C and Cocoa by writing a Useful Small Mac App
  * Write Rake in Lisp (learn Lisp)
  * Write an RSS parser in Erlang (learn Erlang)
  * Rewrite the Ruby Standard Library
  * Write a Ruby->Objective C bridge
  * Learn another web framework
  * Add concurrent task execution to the Lisp Rake
  * Write a blog in Haskell (learn Haskell)
  * Write Scrabble in Io and learn OpenGL (learn Io)

I'd want to work with someone who lived like this.

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Re:Start a side project, says GitHub founder by cschneid on Thursday August 21, 2008 @09:55AM (#282675)

I'd like to take this opportunity to pimp my own personal blog at http://www.gittr.com. I have written a ton of documentation about Sinatra, while learning it. It feels like PHP, but minus the nasty parts. Whereas Rails feels like Java minus the nasty parts.

That was my side project, and sure enough, I start an awesome new job in a week and a half. I basically have been doing exactly what this talks about, and it works!

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