Apprenticeships

Today, many of us WDI graduates started our three month apprenticeship. Some of us got places in the City, and others at places down the peninsula. Some at places that are python shops and others, such as Taulia, that are built on top of groovy.

Such is the latter case, today I was able to join up with two other WDI grads, and we started our three month apprenticeship at Taulia. We got situated early on in the day, went to a couple meetings. Learned the names of people, some of the basic systems (email, etc), and went for lunch at a local food truck (yum :) ).

However, most of the day can be characterized in what someone responded to our GA coordinators question of “How was your first day??!”

"spent all day configuring my dev environment...still (somewhat) working on it"

It was the same for us all it seems. Lol. As rvm and rbenv are to ruby and rails, so will gvmtool be to us in the groovy shops. We got to install several versions and types of groovy applications including grails and gradle.

I even got to later ask my mentor a question from that Manning book “Groovy in Action”. He was able help me with some Java servlet code to get a jetty server running to serve up web files. Prety neat :) .

‘Twas a great first day.

JL