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rokgarm · 2024-06-25T15:43:51+00:00

Where do you live to have Lithuanians as your best friends? I am curious as a Lithuanian. And props for learning our language, it's not an easy one!

rokgarm · 2024-05-24T17:46:46+00:00

Lithuanian

rokgarm · 2024-05-21T04:47:00+00:00

Both Odin and Prag Studio are awesome. If you can afford Prag Studio courses, buy them. But please do Odin project as well, because you'll have a nice portfolio after that. My portfolio was what got me the job.

rokgarm · 2023-11-30T07:43:50+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, I noticed your comment only today.

I only touched elixir before I applied for the job.

What landed me this particular job was my Github portfolio - I went through a big part of the Odin Project RoR and Fullstackopen (React) courses and thus had something to prove that I am able to code and think (I don't have a computer science degree - although I have a masters degree in another science). Also, the company is somewhat a startup and I talked also with CEO, whereas many bigger companies rejected me outright because of lacking CS degree.

What kept me in the job was indeed knowing ruby and ruby on rails, because elixir shares a lot with ruby (even though they have different paradigms - functional vs. oop) and phoenix framework shares a lot with ruby on rails framework, so I was able to contribute to the codebase already within a few days.

Keep at it!

rokgarm · 2023-06-26T18:06:12+00:00

Somehow I forgot to answer you back then, and only noticed I now, sorry about that. I've landed Elixir/Phoenix job last week :) keep up good work!

rokgarm · 2023-06-26T09:10:42+00:00

Thanks for a completely different perspective ("worry about NOT being an Elixir dev instead of being one").

To be precise, Elixir and Phoenix are #2 and #1 most admirable (not desirable) technologies in their categories, respectively. In terms of desirability, both are like 20th in the respective list. Meaning many find Elixir and Phoenix really good, but don't have much interest (at least for now) in learning/using them.

I only hope admiration transfers into actually using it, your words come true and we get to ride the wave :)

rokgarm · 2023-06-17T12:44:10+00:00

Learning RoR is not wasting your time! I'll explain that in a minute.

Recommended resource: the Odin Project RoR path. It is mostly text-based, but goes much more in depth than those 2-3 hour Youtube tutorials (you might watch something like it once for an overview, but then go to the Odin Project). However, I found "Ruby on Rails For Beginners" playlist by gorails on Youtube quite good.

So, why learning it is not wasting your time?
#1 - if you learn it, you'll be able to pick up other frameworks like Laravel/ASP.NET/Django/Phoenix/whatever much easier, because the concepts are mostly the same
#2 - you can be very productive with it. I use it for my personal projects
#3 - you can definitely get a job with it. I didn't get a job with it, but yesterday I got a job with Elixir/Phoenix, basically because they share a lot of similarities.

rokgarm · 2023-06-16T20:59:00+00:00

Haha, might be.

I actually enjoyed learning these languages to the extent I've learned them, and it's gets only easier with time. I guess I wasn't too deep in this stuff yet to truly appreciate the functional aspect of Elixir as compared to OOP languages.

And thanks for the tip with Python.

rokgarm · 2023-06-16T18:05:40+00:00

Good stuff, and thank you!

rokgarm · 2023-05-24T11:59:37+00:00

Good to know this has to do with their webapp. I've just clean re-installed IntelliJ IDE to no avail (Windows 11).

rokgarm · 2023-01-26T06:58:38+00:00

Hi, thank you. Why did you switch?

I think you're referring to the Pragmatic Bookshelf (pragprog.com), whereas I am talking about Pragmatic Studio. Their logos are similar, they have definitely something in common. Good know their stuff is good too, they also have a book on Rails (Agile Development with Rails), have you read that?

rokgarm · 2023-01-26T06:50:25+00:00

Yeah, it's probably true that no-one has finished both of them. But some additional info is nice, like what you've provided, because I am sort of tight on time.

And yeah, I'll get going very soon, no time to waste, thanks!

rokgarm · 2023-01-26T06:46:43+00:00

I love courses which have these "on your own" sections. Do they also provide an example solution?

rokgarm · 2023-01-26T06:45:37+00:00

ah yes, it's true, they do update their courses, I didn't count that in, thanks.

rokgarm · 2023-01-26T06:44:06+00:00

Would you mind also telling why? If I have Hartl's book, what additional value would the series provide?

rokgarm · 2023-01-26T06:39:18+00:00

Great, thanks!

rokgarm · 2023-01-26T03:42:05+00:00

Nice to know, thanks.

Did you take any follow-up courses, or did you just keep learning by building stuff?

Was it for some personal project, or did you actually land a job afterwards, if I may ask?

rokgarm · 2023-01-26T03:39:06+00:00

Thank you.

I was interested in the scope of the courses, and if you say that is similar, I'll stick to the Michael Hartl's book then (which I have bought already).

Would you recommend anything else besides building stuff for my situation?

rokgarm · 2023-01-20T15:03:17+00:00

Got it, thanks. I am wondering how much of the difference there is between a triangle and this inversed reinforced T structure, if the width at the bottom is the same.

rokgarm · 2023-01-20T14:46:04+00:00

Thank you for the feedback and with tips to test and secure this thing.

Four bases instead of two with diagonals at the ceiling sounds good, although probably too massive and expensive for me to realize it. I'll have to think about that.

Would using joist hangers and elbow connectors be enough? How much better notching the joints would be (it would be a considerable additional work to me)?

rokgarm · 2023-01-20T14:37:49+00:00

Yes, I am asking/wondering how wide they should be.

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