Dante Calderon dantehemerson

2019 update: this essay has been updated on my personal site, together with a followup on how to get started

2020 update: I'm now writing a book with updated versions of all these essays and 35 other chapters!!!!

1. Learn in public

If there's a golden rule, it's this one, so I put it first. All the other rules are more or less elaborations of this rule #1.

You already know that you will never be done learning. But most people "learn in private", and lurk. They consume content without creating any themselves. Again, that's fine, but we're here to talk about being in the top quintile. What you do here is to have a habit of creating learning exhaust. Write blogs and tutorials and cheatsheets. Speak at meetups and conferences. Ask and answer things on Stackoverflow or Reddit. (Avoid the walled gardens like Slack and Discourse, they're not public). Make Youtube videos

FWIW: I didn't produce the content presented here (the outline from Edmond Lau's book). I've just copy-pasted it from somewhere over the Internet, but I cannot remember what exactly the original source is. I was also not able to find the author's name, so I cannot give him/her the proper credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

Project Ideas

Ok. I'm going to list off some ideas for projects. You will have to determine if any particular idea is good enough to include in a portfolio. These aren't creative ideas. They likely already exist. Some are way too advanced while others are simplistic.

I will recommend to post any project you make to github and make a github project page for it. Explain in as much detail as possible how you made it, how it can be improved etc. Document it.

If you pick an advanced idea, setup a development roadmap and follow it. This will show some project management skills.

Another piece of advice for those who are design challenged. Use different front end frameworks and use different themes for those frameworks to provide appealing designs without looking like yet another bootstrap site.

	#
	# Working with branches
	#

	# Get the current branch name (not so useful in itself, but used in
	# other aliases)
	branch-name = "!git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"
	# Push the current branch to the remote "origin", and set it to track
	# the upstream branch
	publish = "!git push -u origin $(git branch-name)"

	## Sublime Text 3 Serial key build is 3176

	> * Added these lines into /etc/hosts

	127.0.0.1 www.sublimetext.com
	127.0.0.1 license.sublimehq.com

	> * Used the license key

	----- BEGIN LICENSE -----

	var links = document.getElementsByClassName('scroll-link');

	for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
	links[i].onclick = scroll;
	}

	function scroll(e) {
	e.preventDefault();
	var id = this.getAttribute('href').replace('#', '');
	var target = document.getElementById(id).getBoundingClientRect().top;

	document.getElementsByTagName('button')[0].onclick = function () {
	scrollTo(document.body, 0, 1250);
	}

	function scrollTo(element, to, duration) {
	var start = element.scrollTop,
	change = to - start,
	currentTime = 0,
	increment = 20;

	CC := gcc
	CFLAGS := -g -Wall
	LIBS := -lallegro
	SOURCES := $(shell find src/ -type f -name "*.c")
	OBJECTS := $(SOURCES:.c=.o)
	TARGET := game

	all: $(SOURCES) $(TARGET)

	$(TARGET): $(OBJECTS)

	// create file:
	sudo vim /usr/share/applications/intellij.desktop

	// add the following
	[Desktop Entry]
	Version=13.0
	Type=Application
	Terminal=false
	Icon[en_US]=/home/rob/.intellij-13/bin/idea.png
	Name[en_US]=IntelliJ