Always Be Learning

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

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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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