I’m a great supporter of learning, self-training and “continuous training” this because our job is made in percentage : 15% prepared, 35% of passion and 50% of training and learning continuously without stop..
Maybe someone could say I’m crazy or these percentage are wrong or anyone could have his own percentage, but in my experience this is what I’ve seen.
So about me, what is the most, the great and the largest source of learning and training and so on? Open Source Projects!
Most of the things I (hope I) know I’ve learned watching and reading open source project’s code listings, this because this kind of projects usually are made by volunteers who are good and experienced developers which wants to produce valuable software for the community, and, even that it’s driven by prepared, passion and training, learning and so on…
So now, my wish is to begin something new, not so new, but something new for me, I wish to try to translate and port a Java open source project to .net, because I think this could be exciting and good about passion and learning… So I have a project in mind but I’m open about suggestions, ideas, and more, so if someone wants to suggest and maybe partecipate let me know by comments or mail or I don’t know what…. my mail is manueldotmartoneatgmaildotcom I wish to start a new project in an hosting site (sourceforge, codeplex, github…)
Now what could be interesting for is doing that with two Apache Foundation projects:
1. Excalibur project
2. James Mai Server project
James server is built on the excalibur project (ex Apache Avalon) so could be exiting thinking doing this for the two projects.. but first of all I hope someone is interested in.
Sorry for my english, bye