I went to Pablo’s Fiesta this past weekend. It was an amazing conference with lots of energy and lots of things to learn. Here aare some of my notes. I maay go back and clean them up, or expand something, or just leave them s is. For now, tho, here they are in raw form:
Free Software/ Open Source Projects
- helps to have a buddy/ally.
- Working for non-profits is a good way to do a pet project. They give you incentive, etc.
- Tell family that you’ll give them some reward when you complete a project
- Put new ideas in Evernote and go on, then later go thru them and complete them.
SOLID / anti-SOLID
- Opposite of SOLID is LIQUID: Lazy, Inconsequential, Quaint, Unnecessary Inconsequential, DRY (Don’t repeat yourself) 🙂
- Contradiction between S and O (Single Responsibility and Open/Closed).
- Evil done in the name of SOLID.
- Having interface for everything and every interface has exactly one implementation.
- Every time you make a system more extensible you make it more complicated. And you’re picking a specific way to extensible it.
- At what level do you apply S?
- Simplest Thing that could Possibly Work and LAGNI. Are they in opposition to SOLID?
Startups
“A startup that is two years old is not a startup. It’s a failure.”
Javascript
Practicing Progrmming
See http://pablosfiesta.pbworks.com/w/page/46331997/PracticingProgramming (I wrote up those notes, so it would be silly for me to copy them here).
Contract to not hired
- Get accountant & lawyer
- Make an LLC
- File as an S-Corp
- Pay a small salary & the lest as dividends
- Pay less in taxes than ever before.
Functional Languages
I also put notes for this one on the wiki. http://pablosfiesta.pbworks.com/w/page/46434395/I%27m%20enjoying%20a%20functional%20language
Ron "Ziroby" Romero 
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