{"id":530,"date":"2012-08-18T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/djcp\/?p=530"},"modified":"2012-08-18T09:54:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:54:05","slug":"wrap-up-of-my-first-week-at-thoughtbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/2012\/08\/wrap-up-of-my-first-week-at-thoughtbot\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrap-up of my first week at thoughtbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random thoughts about my first week as a developer at thoughtbot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have much to learn about design patterns. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Design_Patterns\">GoF book<\/a> will be my close friend for a while.<\/li>\n<li>I know more about metaprogramming than I thought, I just needed the terminology.<\/li>\n<li>Pairing is an amazing way to transfer knowledge and should be done frequently. I learned a ton during and after because I took notes and then researched and practiced concepts new to me.<\/li>\n<li>thoughtbot invests a huge amount of time (and therefore money) improving the skills of its developers. It shows.<\/li>\n<li>osx is a fine desktop environment, but the amount of crap you need to wade through to set it up as a ruby development environment (as compared to debian \/ ubuntu) is kind of hilarious. That said, it&#8217;s working fine now and it wasn&#8217;t particularly hard, it just didn&#8217;t feel &#8220;native&#8221; like it does on linux. \u00a0I could take or leave osx, but it&#8217;d be hard to stop using a retina display &#8211; text is absolutely gorgeous.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;d do without <a href=\"http:\/\/mxcl.github.com\/homebrew\/\">homebrew<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>thoughtbot <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/thoughtbot\/dotfiles\">dotfiles<\/a> are great, and the vim set up was very similar to my own but with significant additional refinements. Use them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random thoughts about my first week as a developer at thoughtbot: I have much to learn about design patterns. The GoF book will be my close friend for a while. I know more about metaprogramming than I thought, I just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/2012\/08\/wrap-up-of-my-first-week-at-thoughtbot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17338,615,17337,17336],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-investment","tag-ruby","tag-skills","tag-thoughtbot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/djcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}