I have been learning about mapping. Using leafletjs to incorporate mapping elements in web applications. Building check-in operations based on current location, placing markers/icons and modifying the icon color to represent data values and making it easy for users to contribute location data that is currently missing from the data set.
I am also exploring options for efficiently storing sparse matrix data, doing automated statistical distance/similarity analysis and storing all-to-all distance measures back into a database.
I'm a Python programmer but I have some familiarity with Java, but I haven't really touched Java in over five years, so I've been refreshing my mind with the recent Java 8 docs and it's been a pretty fun experience so far.
I'm spending a lot of my free with Erlang and Elixir, a Ruby-syntax inspired language that runs on the same VM as Erlang. I'm enjoying Elixir a lot and finding it adds some clarity to the little things I'm writing with it.
I'm learning how to be better. I started reading Farnam Street about two months ago, and picked up Ryan Holiday's The Obstacle is the Way two weeks ago. Meditations: A New Translation and Thinking Fast and Slow are on their way. I'm facing not a crisis of self, but a realization that I am at a point where in order to move forward, and achieve what I want to achieve, I have some huge ego driven flaws that require a megalithic perspective shift.
Awesome I agree. Read this several years ago! Great book! The observer is such a powerful concept, also covered in practical detail by Holiday. Thank you, though, and check this out: http://lionserpent.com/unity.html :)
At work I'm learning networking, writing effective javascript, building backend APIs for multiple consumers, and tastypie which is basically REST for Django.
At home I'm playing around with algorithms for drawing trees, studying linear algebra, and taking the Coursera ML course by Andrew Ng.
Started a project using AngularJS. I'm finding it quite fun and exciting. I have a decent JQuery background and find myself having to actively refrain from using JQuery. Trying to learning the "Angular way" of doing things.
Grails. I'm a C#/.NET programmer. I've been trying out Scala with Play, and Clojure with Luminus, and RoR before then. Grails is making me the happiest as an open source alternative to C#.
Django and the Django Rest Framework. I develop android apps but it feels I lack skills in creating web services. Also, I'm learning how to solve problems - it's a tough one
SICP. It's my first introduction to functional or object-oriented programming. It's making me want to minimize mutable data/state in my projects from now on.
As wrong as this may sound. I read and have mostly Chinese co-workers to ask, correct me, etc. My local community college also offers classes that I am going to take in the fall.
I am also exploring options for efficiently storing sparse matrix data, doing automated statistical distance/similarity analysis and storing all-to-all distance measures back into a database.