I used to have a 1.5 hour commute one way. You can get a lot done in that time. Now I don't need to commute all the time and it has gotten harder to get the reading done. That will change once school starts and my daughter starts doing lots of marching band stuff. :)
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Peter Becker <[email protected]>wrote: > This might be not suitable for everyone, but I find the combination of > (public transport + netbook + tethering) extremely helpful. OTOH I am > currently accepting a commute of 1h+ as opposed to ~30min direct drive, I am > not sure I'll keep that up. > > At the moment pretty much 90%+ of my private email and feed reading happens > on train and bus, plus some bits of coding and database work. My old netbook > even copes decently running PostGIS + Geoserver :-) Kudos to the Ubuntu team > -- with Windows XP it hardly coped with Adobe Reader (we are talking first > gen Dell Mini 9 here). > > Peter (writing on the train to work) > > > > > On 09/07/10 01:46, Rakesh wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> this is targeted at those slightly older developers out there who have >> been coding for a while now and consider themselves rather good at >> what they do. >> >> How do you make time to keep up to date? I mean, I have a full time >> job which leaves me knackered in the evenings and a wife and son who >> make sure I am not left alone at the weekend. >> >> I've been meaning to sit down and learn Scala, GWT, Spring 3.0 but I >> just don't get the time. >> >> Any one else been in this position? How did you solve it? >> >> Rakesh >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Robert Casto www.IWantFreeShipping.com Find Amazon Filler Items easily! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
