Re: [The Java Posse] Personal projects for self development

2010-03-10 Thread Wildam Martin
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 18:49, Wayne Fay wayne...@gmail.com wrote: You're going about this the wrong way... YOU should be the customer. The next time you're doing something and think to yourself, hey I wish there was an app that would help me do X, you should BUILD IT. And if you don't have any

Re: [The Java Posse] Personal projects for self development

2010-03-10 Thread Wayne Fay
I'm looking for a 'reference' project, something that can be reimplemented in Scala or Ruby, allows me to set up Hudson and some plugins that seem interesting Ultimately, I find implementing yet another bowling/sudoku example by following someone's directions to be not only unfulfilling

[The Java Posse] Personal projects for self development

2010-03-09 Thread Rakesh
Hi, any ideas on projects one can do to keep their skills up to date? I'm always thinking it would be great to have some project where i can try out new techniques and tools to gain some experience. For example, I've worked in environments with Maven but it was always already set up so I didn't

Re: [The Java Posse] Personal projects for self development

2010-03-09 Thread shainnif ismail
thanks shaine On 9 Mar 2010 17:34, Rakesh rakesh.mailgro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, any ideas on projects one can do to keep their skills up to date? I'm always thinking it would be great to have some project where i can try out new techniques and tools to gain some experience. For example, I've

Re: [The Java Posse] Personal projects for self development

2010-03-09 Thread Wayne Fay
The thing about choosing a project based on something I'm interested in is that you won't know if its possible or not, requirements may not be clear - hey I'm a developer not a customer! You're going about this the wrong way... YOU should be the customer. The next time you're doing something

Re: [The Java Posse] Personal projects for self development

2010-03-09 Thread Rakesh
Hi Wayne, once you involve other people then there expectations too meet and ultimately stress. I'm looking for a 'reference' project, something that can be reimplemented in Scala or Ruby, allows me to set up Hudson and some plugins that seem interesting The actual project is a means to an