{"id":360,"date":"2015-05-02T17:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T17:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2015-05-02T17:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T17:15:20","slug":"im-going-on-an-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/im-going-on-an-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m going on an adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_361\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/adventure.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-361\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/adventure-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Me, going on an adventure\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/adventure-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/adventure-481x300.jpg 481w, http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/adventure.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me, going on an adventure<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been developing mostly back-end code for most of my career (Java essentially), I dealt with Java the language, the JVM, Eclipse, Java Enterprise, Databases (Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server), XML, XML Schema, etc&#8230; and I did some front-end hacking while developing some of the widgets of the XEO Framework.<\/p>\n<p>I decided that I needed to do something different. I&#8217;ve always been fascinated with the front-end world (not necessarily thinking I should have done that all along, I very much like to do back-end code). I&#8217;d been reading on all the changes happening in front-end land, such as the MV* frameworks like Angular and Ember, the &#8220;recent&#8221; appearing of React (and React Native), all the fuss about node.js (io.js), all the tools like bower, gulp, grunt, bootstrap, responsive, rendering performance&#8230; a whole new world.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to find a new challenge\u00a0on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memeoirs.com\" target=\"_blank\">Memeoirs<\/a>\u00a0where I&#8217;ve been given the task of managing front-end tasks (including our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emberjs.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ember.JS<\/a> + <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ember-cli.com\" target=\"_blank\">EmberCLI<\/a> application).<\/p>\n<p>What I can say is that it&#8217;s been a very humbling experience: In a Java environment I know my way around everything, I know where to search, I&#8217;m very productive with Java. On the other hand, working mostly on Javascript for the better part of my day (and using tools like the ember-cli, or having to create my own build process using Broccoli for instance) reminds me that I&#8217;m in\u00a0an incredibly huge field where there is so much stuff that you can do and learn. I&#8217;ll still have to learn CSS properly (I hope), responsive design, mockups, even my own text editor changed!<\/p>\n<p>I expect an incredible amount of new things to learn, a lot of walls to bang my head against, but I think It&#8217;ll do me very good to have stepped out of my comfort zone and try new things. I believe this knowledge will be very helpful on my future (whatever that may be, because as Steve Jobs said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/463176-you-can-t-connect-the-dots-looking-forward-you-can-only\" target=\"_blank\">you can&#8217;t connect the dots while looking forward<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Happy coding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been developing mostly back-end code for most of my career (Java essentially), I dealt with Java the language, the JVM, Eclipse, Java Enterprise, Databases (Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server), XML, XML Schema, etc&#8230; and I did some front-end hacking while &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/im-going-on-an-adventure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corrspt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}