Progress Update.

Finished up my fourth week of my internship.  I was added to another project.  I was introduced to Trello and started getting project tasks assigned and even getting tasks finished and pull requests accepted.  I'm using bitbucket instead of github for project work.

Even though I'm working 36 hr/week during my junior dev internship, I am still studying rails on the weekends.  Today, I finished up Chapters 3 & 4 of Hartl's Rails tutorial (some static page creation and working with minitest for TDD).  I also finished up the first week of the online dutch MOOC course I'm taking through futurelearn.  Whew.  Busy week.

Progress update

I started Hartl's Rails Tutorial.  I was originally just going to do the free online book, but saw a deal for the ebook, solution manual and all the screencasts for $49 so I got that.  I started it on Thursday.  I am on Chapter 2 working on the second app project in the book, a simple microblogging site.  Work on the book may slow down considerably as I found a full-time internship!

I accepted an internship position in Amsterdam for Ruby on Rails.  First 3 months are internship, then regular employee after that.    It's going to be an adjustment commuting to A'dam every day (1.5hr each way).  Hoping I can use the commute to study Dutch.  Mondays are going to be the roughest day since I have Dutch class at night.  Will be a long day for me and the dogs at home.  I'm most worried about the dogs adjusting again to me being away from home during the day for such a long time.  Hopefully they will adjust quickly and not bark during the day.

I'm excited for the future.