1/ For the last 2 years, I've been doing a two-week 'coding vacation' in December. Could use some creative input for the 2016 iteration.
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2/ In 2014, 2-wk project was to get to hello world in a handful of production techs (got there with AWS, Digital Ocean, Heroku, js)
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3/ In 2015, I was still feeling burned by annoyance of prod techs, so I retreated to my Matlab playpen and wrote a fun "fake word generator"
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4/ This year, I have a couple of toy projects that currently live in Matlab but I'd like to take to real world.
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5/ One is a personality test. The other is a kinda toy 'psychohistory' simulator of world history.
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6/ So Q: how should the 2-week vacation (NOT full time, maybe 48h total) be structured so I get to production *including learning curve*
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7/ In case 6 is unclear: how to explore possible solns so I don't spend all 2 wks just trying 3 tools and not finishing in any (aka "2014")
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Do you have init code templates for different classes of tasks? Helps a lot to bypass the "run out of steam setting it all up" problem.
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. I have nothing except some matlab scripts and forgotten-through-disuse js/python/shell skills I last touched 2y ago
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. The only thing I know how to really deploy to production is simple js scripts with no persistence..

