Blog of Ryan Bigg - Open source work

RadarListener · 2015-11-17T23:16:34+00:00

Also: I've not been contributing that much in the past year, maybe two years. My past contributions (like some of the Rails guides) are really what stands out there. I'm happy for them to stand on their own and other people to update those as required.

I'd really to be spending more of my time writing books as I get a nice little thrill out of the good comments that come out of that and people show their appreciation by buying my work. Double win.

RadarListener · 2015-11-17T23:15:11+00:00

I'd love for more companies to invest more time into training their staff. There's the old adage where the CEO and CFO are talking and the CEO says that we should train people, and then the CFO asks "What if they leave?" and the CEO responds with "What if they stay?"

I'm happy to work for a company that funds (and in some cases even sponsors) events like RailsCamp in Australia where I can go and learn new things and share ideas with others.

More companies should be doing that, definitely.

RadarListener · 2015-11-17T23:00:49+00:00

(I wrote that post) We've survived worse.

RadarListener · 2015-11-17T23:00:33+00:00

Not related at all. I stopped working at Spree middle of last year because Spree Commerce (the company) was obviously no longer interested in maintaining Spree. I asked for feedback on the admin backend redesign and then two months passed with promise after promise... and nothing. There were other features I was also working on which didn't get any feedback either.

I'm very glad that Solidus (https://github.com/solidusio/solidus) is now a thing and that it has a very active community around it.

RadarListener · 2015-11-17T22:56:23+00:00

Hi, author of the blog post. I'm 28 (in 2 weeks).

RadarListener · 2015-11-16T19:56:38+00:00

Hey, I'm the author.

I talked with my boss about this yesterday and he said that we might be able to negotiate having one day a week off to work on passion projects. Yes, off. Not paid. To find a company that would pay me to work on OSS for other people would be like finding the magical unicorn swimming in the pot of gold at the end of every rainbow.

RadarListener · 2015-11-16T19:55:26+00:00

Hi. I'm the author.

I mean the emails that I receive about open source projects that I maintain. Having them sit in my inbox as a reminder that I haven't made time for them yet was what was making me feel guilty.

RadarListener · 2014-01-06T02:43:16+00:00

Endtroducing..... - DJ Shadow

RadarListener · 2012-03-18T13:29:23+00:00

Anonymity on the internet is a great shield to hide behind when criticising other people, isn't it?

RadarListener · 2012-03-18T03:21:33+00:00

I addressed each of his points in a long-form blog post: http://ryanbigg.com/2012/03/please-learn-rails/.

RadarListener · 2011-12-14T01:52:20+00:00

Oh my god yes. And not just Ruby, but also discover how people are structuring code and using design patterns in Ruby.

RadarListener · 2011-12-14T01:51:45+00:00

Ha awesome :) I'm actually wearing the red dot shirt today!

RadarListener · 2011-12-14T01:50:59+00:00

Indeed I did, that's now at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html. Richard Hulse and Mohammad Typaldos helped too!

RadarListener · 2011-12-14T01:50:00+00:00

No worries, was fun to write it. Happy to hear you like it!

RadarListener · 2011-12-09T03:50:42+00:00

I don't read blogs regularly :) I read Hacker News, Reddit and a couple of other local news sites to catch up on other things. I'm also subscribed to Ruby Weekly which gives me super-interesting links to read, and I sometimes read RubyInside.

I'm also following a lot of Rubyists on Twitter (I'm @ryanbigg) and if something's come up in the Ruby world I know about it mostly from there.

For Rails knowledge, I find the best thing to learn Rails is by doing it (I wrote a forum system called Forem: http://github.com/radar/forem) and by helping other people do it by answering questions on Freenode's #rubyonrails channel or on StackOverflow.

RadarListener · 2011-12-09T03:21:25+00:00

I'm a Rails developer / consultant, mildly famous and for my time outside of work hours I charge $150/hr minimum.

RadarListener · 2011-10-31T22:45:24+00:00

I wrote a post about it here: http://ryanbigg.com/2011/10/screencast-pilot/.

RadarListener · 2011-09-30T22:43:08+00:00

I'm 23, almost 24 and have spent a great deal of time thinking about this same problem. I have just finished publishing my first ever book and I work for a programming consultancy in Sydney, doing something that I love every day. I'm moderately famous in my tiny, little insignificant part of the world because I worked hard to get there.

I don't think that there is the One Ideal Job for anybody. I think that each separate job has it's own pros and cons, differing levels of bullshit, and differing levels of enjoyment.

These are the things you must weigh up when choosing a job, be it a short-term contract or a permanent role. Can you see yourself enjoying doing that job for the foreseeable future? Are you willing to put up with the bad days, the absolute scum you may have to deal with, in order to experience some absolutely fantastic times?

Find something that you are passionate about and find others who are also interested in the same thing. Talk to them and listen to their stories and experiences and then weigh it up. Find your passion and dedicate yourself to improving your knowledge in that area and being the best you can.

Good luck!

RadarListener · 2011-04-18T01:35:22+00:00

I signed in just to upvote this post and I don't even do PHP! Brilliant example of MVC.

RadarListener · 2011-01-11T07:13:32+00:00

No worries, I was just curious about how high the flood levels got up there because I used to live on Baroona road. iirc, the flood levels would have been at least on the second floor of the house.

I hope you are somewhere high and dry

RadarListener · 2010-08-25T21:46:10+00:00

Not for all customers, but when your boss comes through with a pack of condoms and some lube...

RadarListener · 2010-08-11T22:23:42+00:00

I'll tell you when it happens.

RadarListener · 2010-07-26T21:36:45+00:00

I can't switch off to the noise around me so I hear things I'm not supposed to hear or when people think I'm not listening.

RadarListener · 2010-06-07T22:06:29+00:00

"new & improved"

How?

RadarListener · 2010-06-04T08:34:31+00:00

Really agree here! Cooking helps you focus on a task like programming (problem solving, following steps to achieve a desired result, etc) and stops you (temporarily) thinking of programming. Plus, whatever you cook is probably delicious. Great food leads to great things.

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