Online Learning Resources
I recently started exploring online resources that my company provides for free to their employees. I was pleasantly surprised to see all my favorite O'Reilly books on SafariBooksOnline, but also amazed at how much new technology has been developed over the last few years. Areas that I thought I was very familiar with have suddenly shifted to include new tools, and new ways of doing things with cloud, big data, automation, and all kinds of new Apache products. Check to see if your company provides free subscriptions, and then have a look at some of these resources: Paid Learning Sites http://www.safaribooksonline.com -- Huge selection of technical books http://www.pluralsight.com -- High Quality, from overview to advanced topics for programmers http://www.lynda.com -- High Quality, some topics are not very advanced, but courses are very well done When discussing career development ideas with my colleagues, I usually recommend training courses, or books, o...