Month: November 2009

8 Days Before 雨の時代

Been busy the entire week, with the first two days spent on a somewhat complicated Google Wave Robot/Gadget/System and the past three days trying to clear my “unfinished business” bin.

Anyway, I wrote this post is just to advertise our 6th fair, the feudal Japan themed AME no Jidai (AME’s era).

AME no Jidai

It will be held at A. Venue on November 28, 1PM – 10PM. Tickets are PhP 100. More details at the fair site.

Pimp My Architecture

Pimp my Architecture

There were a bunch of great presentations over at InfoQ last week. My personal favorite is Dan North’s Pimp My Architecture, a story of how he rescued a (possibly hypothetical) project from being a “shanty town”.

It’s a bit high level so you won’t be able to get some concrete steps from it, but project managers and tech leads would probably get some good tips along the way.

Learning Proverb

There’s an old Chinese Proverb that everybody knows:

I hear and I forget;
I see and I remember;
I do and I understand.

I find that that proverb still lacks another item:

I teach and I master.

There are some reasons why teaching can help one in achieving mastery in one’s craft. First is that it requires a certain level of skill in the craft before you can even start teaching. Another is that students rarely follow the same lines of thought as the teacher, and in doing so exposes the teacher to scenarios that they never have experienced before.

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Of course this doesn’t mean that everyone who teaches are masters of their craft. There are teachers who continuously teach outdated or incorrect information to their students.

Don’t be like them; continuous learning should always be part of your lifestyle.