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Always Be Learning
How I try to keep up with Technology
Zoë Nolan
Rails Girls London May 2015
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Hello my name is Zoë
I work as a software Engineer at Skype
• Big Data
• Video Compression
• Game Programmer
Find me online at http://zoenolan.org
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Don't worry about taking notes
http://zoenolan.org/blog/2015/05/always-be-learning/
TL;DR Follow people on Twitter. Spend a lot of time on the internet
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MOOCs
• Coursera https://www.coursera.org/
• EdX https://www.edx.org/
• Udacity https://www.udacity.com/
• FutureLearn https://www.futurelearn.com/
• Class Central https://www.class-central.com/
• CourseBuffet http://www.coursebuffet.com/
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Resources
• Pinboard http://www.pinboard.in/
• Ruby https://pinboard.in/t:ruby/
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Answers to Questions
• Stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/
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News
• Twitter https://twitter.com
• Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/
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Events
• Lanyrd http://lanyrd.com/
• Meetup http://www.meetup.com/
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http://zoenolan.org/blog/2015/05/always-be-learning/