Hi, I am in the middle of making the opposite move (to Montreal, Canada) and am in a similar situation (I haven't worked professionally in Ruby). What I plan to do (and what I would encourage you to do) is go to meetups, talks, conferences etc. My favourites in Melbourne have been Roro meetups and YOW! nights <http://www.yowconference.com.au/general/yownights.html>. It is always worth sticking around afterwards for a chat (and a beer). I'd wager there is a high chance of meeting a future boss or co-worker at these events.
I have been lax up until now with my open source contributions but I plan on recording all those little problems I have with frameworks/libraries/gems as I learn them and, if possible, making it easier for the next developer coming along. I figure this will force me to learn lots of different codebases and that can only be a good thing. Welcome to Australia, I'm sure you will have a blast. Richard On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Tim Uckun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Vincent. > > Where are you looking to locate to in Australia? Have you considered > New Zealand? Either way let me know when you have landed. Contact me > offline if you want and I'll try to help you out. > > > Cheers. > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Vincent Bonmalais <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm currently looking for any kind of information or help to succeed in my >> (crazy) attempt to become a RoR Junior Developer in Australia (FYI, the >> crazy part will be explained very soon). >> >> Context: >> >> I have 2 years experience in CakePHP / ExtJS, a Master in Computer Science, >> and a good experience with testing using Rspec/Selenium and deployment using >> Capistrano. It's just been a few months since I actively try to work my way >> around Ruby on Rails. Which means I'm reading a lot, and making a lot of >> test code/projects. >> >> No fancy professional rails app running out there, and no outstanding >> participation in the open source community yet. >> >> To top it all, I am currently not in Australia... I'm a bit of a >> free-man-soul-who-can-live-wherever-there-is-food... I happen to have >> already moved outside of my home country (Reunion Island [France] => >> Montreal [Canada]) and plan on doing the same once again, which means moving >> to Australia pretty soon. (so yes, I speak "le" french as a native language) >> >> What I want is: >> >> - Finding a job ;)? I would gladly accept any offer (if any), but this is >> not the main goal of me making this thread. I am truthfully more interested >> in finding out what have made you a competent, funny-to-speak-with >> developer. >> >> - As I heard, there is a mentorship program going on out there. I sure would >> like to spam all of you with stupid questions, but I would vaguely prefer if >> somebody would be interested in teaching me first. Who knows? Maybe I have >> something interesting to teach you too. Need a french native speaker to >> discuss with or learn the language? Have a problem on a legacy PHP or >> CakePHP project? Just ask. (island spicy cooking is still on top of the list >> though). >> >> - Participating in the open source community. I read pull requests and >> issues on a daily basis on Rails, but happen to not have the skill to >> propose anything yet. Maybe you need help on a github project, or have a >> nice starting point where a junior can place his efforts. >> >> - Any plan which makes the difference. I've already looked around and read >> quite a few tutorials / books on various subjects, which goes from >> CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Mobile Programming, Flexible design... >> To Cucumber, Rspec, Rails Best Practices (Thanks Code School...), etc. So >> maybe you want to add something here, which will really make the difference, >> which you hoped you'd knew sooner, an advice or a few words which changed >> your ruby developer's life. >> >> - Also, making friends would be a great starting point too ! :) (that >> actually may be the most important point during my trip...) >> >> Thanks for reading and have a nice day! >> -- >> Vincent >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/xGbRACCutFEJ. >> 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/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en.
