Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-12-01 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Seth Robbins robbins...@gmail.com wrote: Which brings me to my original reason for posting: Is there, at present, a publicly available subject guide for librarian coders that anyone knows of? and would anyone be interested in collaborating on such a guide even if

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-30 Thread Nate Vack
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Alexander Johannesen alexander.johanne...@gmail.com wrote: No argument there. For example, why are we having this conversation?  ;) Well, Anne was looking for advice on skills to pick up, when starting out a career as an application developer fresh out of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-30 Thread Seth Robbins
Hi all, I'm a first year library science student, also interested in programming. As an assignment for a class I recently designed a pathfinder/subject guide on computer science for librarians and library students. After watching this thread for a couple of days, it dawned on me that, hey there

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-29 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Your task should rather be to understand the why, who, how, when and the thenceforth of data models, and everything else will follow. Ye good gods, no, no, no! A more productive task is to understand the who, how, when, and thenceforth of what tasks actual people want to accomplish with

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-29 Thread Alexander Johannesen
Kyle Banerjee wrote: Starting with data modeling is like trying to learn a new spoken language by focusing on grammar [...] Hmm. It seems that a lot of people are, shall we say, somewhat misguided to what data modelling is, even mighty WikiPedia who makes it into a formal process of sorts, and

[CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-28 Thread Anne Gresham
Hi code4lib folks, I'm in my final semester of library school and my first year as a baby librarian. At school, I focused on systems and technology, and I'm currently running a desktop and mobile site at work. I'm fine with HTML and CSS, and I can fumble around in PHP, but I feel very

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-28 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Hi Anne, Not quite an answer to your question, but you might take a gander at a blog post Dan Chudnov wrote a little while back: http://onebiglibrary.net/story/advice-to-a-library-school-student Best of luck, and btw, the fact that you're already posting to code4lib means you're already

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-28 Thread Ken Irwin
Gresham Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 11:08 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice? Hi code4lib folks, I'm in my final semester of library school and my first year as a baby librarian. At school, I focused on systems and technology, and I'm

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-28 Thread Jon Gorman
Probably the most important thing you can do is simply play around with the technology. Get some ideas of what you want to play around with. Then try to do it or see if someone else has already done it. If someone else has done it, try to figure out how (open source for the win). When I was

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-28 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I was wondering what skills/programming languages/experience you think I should be seeking if I want to be able to develop (good) interactive online resources/digital collections for library patrons and/or staff. I agree with the advice given so far in this thread. One of the most useful

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-28 Thread Alexander Johannesen
I could give you tons of advice, most of it specific to some technological domain or another, but over the years I've more or less settled on one thing that beat out all the other ; Data models. Once you grok data models, what they are, how they work, and all the extended family (schemas,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-28 Thread Jon Gorman
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Kyle Banerjee baner...@uoregon.edu wrote: Having a playground where you can experiment aggressively is useful. I'm a fan of Amazon EC2 because you can create servers in minutes for pennies per hour and try things you'd never want to do with real hardware. It's

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-28 Thread Nate Vack
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Alexander Johannesen alexander.johanne...@gmail.com wrote: Your task should rather be to understand the why, who, how, when and the thenceforth of data models, and everything else will follow. Ye good gods, no, no, no! A more productive task is to understand

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-28 Thread Alexander Johannesen
Hiya, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Nate Vack njv...@wisc.edu wrote: A more productive task is to understand the who, how, when, and thenceforth of what tasks actual people want to accomplish with their computers Understanding this is not disconnected from designing data models *right*.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-28 Thread Friscia, Michael
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Anne Gresham [agres...@springdalelibrary.org] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 11:07 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice? Hi code4lib folks, I'm in my final semester

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional development advice?

2011-11-28 Thread Nate Vack
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Alexander Johannesen alexander.johanne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, First, I should apologize for my tone a bit. It's been an odd day, and, yeah, email. Sorry to be overly flippant. Understanding this is not disconnected from designing data models *right*. It's the