I've had lots of free time as of late. Not long ago there was a meeting about communication and how we could collaborate/communicate better, not only inner department, but with outside vendors. My immediate boss was brainstorming ideas with me and Wiki's came up. Running a Wiki on our intranet became a real thought to me. Have used my ample down time these past couple weeks to evaluate the different Wiki's available. I knew I wasn't going to install any of these on my machine just to test, which lead me to learn about Virtual Machines and Virtual Appliances. I put a very intuitive Wiki beginning of this week, my immediate boss took this communication idea, working up his presentation on my "still in testing" VM Wiki, the Big Guy really liked it, even grabbing the mouse and essentially taking over the presentation to edit a page, in front of everyone, then tells everyone to register and start making use of it. So now I am busy again:)!!!
This all happened because I took the initiative, on my own, to run with an idea. An Idea that would've gone nowhere if I used my free time for other less fruitful endeavors. This has also given the opportunity to expand my linux knowledge.
For me personally, it would be very beneficial to see it all fit together in the end. Couple quarters ago our instructor, instead of teaching us rudimentary Java skills, and since all of us had already taken a number of his previous courses, within a couple days he broke free of the standard curriculum and had us code a SMTP email program. We were given the basics it needed to do and the rest was up to us. Each of us worked on it individually and I can tell you the learning experience was a good one. No one to hold you hand, no one to push lame work onto to, and lots of your own research.
Your idea is excellent and certainly goes a couple steps farther than my experience. I would immediately sign up for such a course.
It was painfully obvious he was writing a 'newbie' article. If he were CSS literate whatsoever, he would've written about why everything breaks in IE. CSS is an unbelievable savior to the former hunt down all the individual markup on EACH FREAKIN PAGE. Yeah, let's not get started on how UNBELIEVABLE HARD inheritance is. You know, like how you inherit your parents traits. Yeah, that's just stupid. Makes no sense at all, man.
CSS makes my life a whole lot easier.
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I've had lots of free time as of late. Not long ago there was a meeting about communication and how we could collaborate/communicate better, not only inner department, but with outside vendors. My immediate boss was brainstorming ideas with me and Wiki's came up. Running a Wiki on our intranet became a real thought to me. Have used my ample down time these past couple weeks to evaluate the different Wiki's available. I knew I wasn't going to install any of these on my machine just to test, which lead me to learn about Virtual Machines and Virtual Appliances. I put a very intuitive Wiki beginning of this week, my immediate boss took this communication idea, working up his presentation on my "still in testing" VM Wiki, the Big Guy really liked it, even grabbing the mouse and essentially taking over the presentation to edit a page, in front of everyone, then tells everyone to register and start making use of it. So now I am busy again :)!!!
This all happened because I took the initiative, on my own, to run with an idea. An Idea that would've gone nowhere if I used my free time for other less fruitful endeavors. This has also given the opportunity to expand my linux knowledge.
For me personally, it would be very beneficial to see it all fit together in the end. Couple quarters ago our instructor, instead of teaching us rudimentary Java skills, and since all of us had already taken a number of his previous courses, within a couple days he broke free of the standard curriculum and had us code a SMTP email program. We were given the basics it needed to do and the rest was up to us. Each of us worked on it individually and I can tell you the learning experience was a good one. No one to hold you hand, no one to push lame work onto to, and lots of your own research. Your idea is excellent and certainly goes a couple steps farther than my experience. I would immediately sign up for such a course.
It was painfully obvious he was writing a 'newbie' article. If he were CSS literate whatsoever, he would've written about why everything breaks in IE. CSS is an unbelievable savior to the former hunt down all the individual markup on EACH FREAKIN PAGE. Yeah, let's not get started on how UNBELIEVABLE HARD inheritance is. You know, like how you inherit your parents traits. Yeah, that's just stupid. Makes no sense at all, man. CSS makes my life a whole lot easier.