rodhilton




I'm doing 17 things
 

rodhilton's Life List

  1. 1. finish thesis
    2 cheers
    25 people
  2. 2. give a talk
    2 people
  3. 3. finish my tattoo
    179 people
  4. 4. learn to play the guitar
    12,657 people
  5. 5. pass scbcd
    1 person
  6. 6. learn spring
    32 people
  7. 7. review a technical book
    1 person
  8. 8. sell a screenplay
    2 cheers
    153 people
  9. 9. join the ACM
    1 person
  10. 10. launch a web app
    11 people
  11. 11. publish a book
    2,147 people
  12. 12. learn electrical engineering
    2 people
  13. 13. blog once a week
    25 people
  14. 14. work for google
    393 people
  15. 15. learn a martial art
    1,448 people
  16. 16. learn spanish
    15,510 people
  17. 17. buy a decent backup system
    1 person

How I did it
How to learn to dance
It took me
8 weeks
It made me
less awkward


How to visit for a foreign country
It took me
5 days
It made me
sunburned


How to take a cruise.
It took me
5 days
It made me
fat


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Recent entries
Learn Ruby
Ruby and Rails together 16 months ago

Learning Ruby helped me become a better programmer in other languages (learning any language generally accomplishes this). I’m not a huge fan of Ruby, because I feel that there are language design flaws that prevent it from being appropriate on large applications, but the Rails framework is easily the best web framework I’ve ever used. Ruby is decent, Rails is great.



learn C#
Learned for a class 16 months ago

Took a class that required learning C#. It’s an well-designed language, and it addresses a lot of flaws with Java. If I still used Windows, C# would be my language of choice for native application development.



Switch to linux
Untitled 2 years ago

linux definitely comes up short in a number of surprising areas (file networking being my primary problem), but just knowing I am free is nice. Go linux!



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