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Set off an hour every Friday where the team members (or R&D department members) explains something he/she has learned, experienced, read... to the rest og the group. Presentation fills at most half of the time, then follows questions, dicussions etc.
If there are not enough topics to fill every Friday, pick some new book which everybody should have read (but nobody has - who reads nowadays?), and assign each chapter of the book to one team member, who will present the contents to the group, one chapter every Friday.
Colloquiums at work, with topics selected among your daily problems, ensures that the topic is (resonably) relevant. Even if it isn't right on spot for your problem last week, learning how your colleagues think and work and strive with their problems can improve communication a lot. At the outset, you "speak the same language", use the same terminology, make referefences to examples you all know; you do not need to mentally switch over to some "school" sand pit where you build toy situations, but see the real application of the solutions. The more you do colloquiums, the more harmonized will the group thinking be.
The weekly getogethers for learning something new also has a social effect. It strengthens the ties betwen team/department members, both professionally and in a human sense. The person giving the presentation/introduction usually puts in some extra effort to be well prepared for questions, over-learning the material (which is good in the long run). Also, there are always those who strive to show their cleverness, looking into the issues before the colloqium so that they can ask questions that the presenter can't answer; that can create some very stimulating and enlightening discussions.
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Actually a class room training by an expert is best way to take training for beginners but this is most costly and difficult to arrange . The second best option is video training. And best way to absorb in depth knowledge is to read best books by experts in close room
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Unless it's for something highly visual like an image editor, video documentation/training is my absolute last choice. I can read for comprehension several times faster than a human can talk, can skim looking for the relevant section of text an order magnitude faster than that, and if I know what the relevant keyboards are my browsers search function is faster still.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sander casts Osmosis.
Target has no MP.
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He can still try to save against spell to lessen the effect.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Or, as Gandalf said to Captain Picard on the Hogwarts Express, use the Force!
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...and Luke switched off his targeting computer and sent a proton torpedo right through Hogwarts' only vulnerable spot: The kitchen window.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Now you're just making things up.
The kitchen window was the only vulnerable spot of Mount Doom, you of all people should know!
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Since when do I come from Mordor (or speak any language from there)?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Just saying you're the Mordor expert here
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You give me too much credit. I just know enough to stay clear of anything coming from Mordor.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Ask this question 10 years ago and I'd bet the results would be different...20 years ago of course, real printed books/manuals would have been the top answer. I have around two dozen of those 3-4 inch thick books taking up space in my office, 80% of which are outdated.
Yep, I remember a time before Google!
That said, I haven't bought a new development book in years...everything you need to know anymore is on the web. However, if the situation were to require me to have a deep understanding of a subject, I would prefer reading a real book.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Articles, books, Q&A forums are good.
Podcasts, videos, classrooms are not good.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: Q&A forums are good. Ahh, learning from other people's mistakes. Clever.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I realized that, depending upon how the instructor looked and how amenable she was to . . .
(I'm not sure just where the KSS border is when it involves educational material).
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I have started going to tech meet-ups (www.meetup.com) and, in Dublin at least, they are an absolutely excellent way to get access to knowledgeable people who are doing the thing (technology, architecture, management process) that you are investigating.
And they are (nearly always) free.
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I've recently discovered these, some also have free beer/pizza.
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Wastedtalent wrote: some also have free beer/pizza.
That starts to sound a bit tempting. Are you obliged to talk about IT or are you allowed to talk about girls and football and whatever?
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Some are more presentation based so you can just sit and listen, some are more interactive. Some go for a beer after, where you can them try to impress the girls in the local watering hole with your new found wisdom [Disclaimer: This might not work on the ladies every time].
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I've been running a Programming Special Interest Group at my Computer User Group for over 25 years. Started out with Visual Basic 1.0 and now Programming in general.
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There's only so much greasy pizza I can take from all the meetups I've been to!
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I've started one in Bedford.. next one is next Wednesday but it's more a case of pre-Christmas beer before getting more serious again in the new year
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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First place I check out, the website of to-be used technology.
I prefer a quick start section with some basic explanation and examples, nothing I can't do in about 15 minutes.
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To keep an "up-to-date" overview (meaning... ok I know there is something on this direction and I can go deeper) Codeproject is the best.
To gain some depth about a particular topic, articles are more than enough.
To learn something in depth about a general topic or new technology without hurry, I prefer the structured content of a paper book
and if it is to learn something really new in a short time, I prefer the face-to-face classroom with few people and with a teacher where theory and praxis go together and questions can be answered immediately. That's presupposing (of course) that the teacher is competent.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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