Lorna Mitchell - Becoming Polyglot - Codemotion Milan 2017

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To be polyglot is to be a true citizen of the software world; to accrue and apply skills beyond the technologies you use in your day-to-day activities. Some of our best work as engineers transcends a particular language or tool: debugging superpowers are needed in every tech stack, and the ability to coax a new toolchain to play nicely is a key skill. Tips for approaching new tools, platforms and communities will help you confidently pick up some fresh technologies and add new tools to your toolbox.

Technology

noun
a person who knows and is able to use several languages.
"Slovenians, being surrounded by many countries, are mostly polyglots"
adjective
knowing or using several languages.
"a polyglot career woman"
@lornajane

Level 1: Make unfamiliar code run
@lornajane

Instead of being a mongoose, be an antelope.
When an antelope is confronted with
something unexpected or frightening, it
freezes. It stays absolutely still and tries not to
attract any attention, while it stops and thinks
and works out the best thing to do.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
@lornajane

Level 2: Edit code successfully
@lornajane

HTTP Tools to Use and Re-use
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CURL http://curl.haxx.se
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(or Postman, Paws, Fiddler … see http://lrnja.net/httptools )
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RequestBin http://requestb.in/
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Ngrok https://ngrok.com/
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Wireshark https://www.wireshark.org/
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Charles Proxy https://www.charlesproxy.com/
@lornajane

Level 3: Separate dev and live platforms
@lornajane

Level 4: Search, copy and paste successfully
@lornajane

Level 5: Create a simple app from scratch
@lornajane@lornajane

Level 6: Participate in community
@lornajane

In the world of hackers, the kind of answers
you get to your technical questions depends as
much on the way you ask the questions as on
the difculty of developing the answer.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
@lornajane

Level 7: Get paid to use this tech stack
@lornajane

Level 8: Adopt and evolve good practice and tooling
@lornajane

Level 10: Dream in this language
@lornajane

Further Reading
Becoming Geek (Michael Lopp)
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks (Bruce A Tate)
Debugging Teams (Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick)
The Art of Community (Jono Bacon)
The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Eric Raymond)
Get in touch: https://lornajane.net
@lornajane

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