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Always Be Learning

Always Be Learning

How I try to keep up with Technology for Rails Girls London 5

Zoe Nolan

May 16, 2015
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  1. Always Be Learning
    How I try to keep up with Technology
    Zoë Nolan
    Rails Girls London May 2015

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Resources
    • Pinboard http://www.pinboard.in/
    • Ruby https://pinboard.in/t:ruby/

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  6. Answers to Questions
    • Stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/

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  7. News
    • Twitter https://twitter.com
    • Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/

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  8. Events
    • Lanyrd http://lanyrd.com/
    • Meetup http://www.meetup.com/

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  9. http://zoenolan.org/blog/2015/05/always-be-learning/

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