Roll call: So, over the years I've done a bit of many things -- developer, tester, sysadmin.
I like Ruby and I'm fairly current on it; on the other hand, the Rails stuff I've done is well in the past now, back in the 1.6-1.8 days.
Know my way around both MySQL and Postgres; slight pref for the latter, but I'm not sure how well Rails plays with it, so.
I'm ok with the mechanics of HTML & CSS but my design-fu kinda sucks. Similar story on Javascript: I know enough to fix busted things in existing code, but I haven't written whole swaths of JS myself.
Git's what I've worked with most as of late for version control, and I like it in spite of how arcane some aspects of it seem to be.
I've written browser-driving tests with Selenium in the past using Selenium-RC. Nowadays things have moved onwards to Selenum-Webdriver, so I'm a bit out of date, but I'd be interested in coming up to speed and getting a UI-based test framework going if that's something we'd like.
Finally, yeah, I'll work with whatever distro, but I'm a Debian user at heart; I grok Debian/Ubuntu best.
Resources: IME, remote pairing using voip + screen can work very well, though you need to agree on a terminal-based editor to make a go of that. Graphical desktop sharing might be workable on a fast connection, but I've found it's often laggy enough to be distracting.
I've found the book Pro Git to be v.helpful when it comes to squaring away "intermediate" topics in my head -- things like working with multiple remotes and branches, how git thinks about merging, etc, as well as clearing up some of the concepts about how git works behind the scenes. The online version is broken up into tiny little pages, but you can download the whole thing for free as a PDF, mobi, or ePub.
One last thing when it comes to committment -- free time around here is pretty tight around here right now, primarily because of two little kids =) but also because of work + some other stuff I'm trying to do after hours. Hopefully I'll manage to get better at it and free up some time in the near future...but in any case, I'd really like to contribute to the extent that I can. ^_^;
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on 2012-07-30 03:52 pm (UTC)I like Ruby and I'm fairly current on it; on the other hand, the Rails stuff I've done is well in the past now, back in the 1.6-1.8 days.
Know my way around both MySQL and Postgres; slight pref for the latter, but I'm not sure how well Rails plays with it, so.
I'm ok with the mechanics of HTML & CSS but my design-fu kinda sucks. Similar story on Javascript: I know enough to fix busted things in existing code, but I haven't written whole swaths of JS myself.
Git's what I've worked with most as of late for version control, and I like it in spite of how arcane some aspects of it seem to be.
I've written browser-driving tests with Selenium in the past using Selenium-RC. Nowadays things have moved onwards to Selenum-Webdriver, so I'm a bit out of date, but I'd be interested in coming up to speed and getting a UI-based test framework going if that's something we'd like.
Finally, yeah, I'll work with whatever distro, but I'm a Debian user at heart; I grok Debian/Ubuntu best.
Resources:
IME, remote pairing using voip + screen can work very well, though you need to agree on a terminal-based editor to make a go of that. Graphical desktop sharing might be workable on a fast connection, but I've found it's often laggy enough to be distracting.
I've found the book Pro Git to be v.helpful when it comes to squaring away "intermediate" topics in my head -- things like working with multiple remotes and branches, how git thinks about merging, etc, as well as clearing up some of the concepts about how git works behind the scenes. The online version is broken up into tiny little pages, but you can download the whole thing for free as a PDF, mobi, or ePub.
One last thing when it comes to committment -- free time around here is pretty tight around here right now, primarily because of two little kids =) but also because of work + some other stuff I'm trying to do after hours. Hopefully I'll manage to get better at it and free up some time in the near future...but in any case, I'd really like to contribute to the extent that I can. ^_^;