Self Education for Web Professionals

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What’s Your Job Title?


Developers?

Designers?

Students?

Educators?

Others?

State of Play


Children of the Internet


Professional?


A List Apart Survey


Chris Mills from Opera


opera.com/company/education/curriculum

Opera Web Standards Curriculum


WaSP Education Task Force


interact.webstandards.org

WaSP Interact


Habits


1
Reading Blogs


Trawling through RSS feeds for
stuff to blog about continually
keeps me informed about all
sorts of things.
Simon Willison


0 - 1345
Unscientiﬁc Survey


Publish Your OPML


2
Reading Everything


Reddit, Hacker News, Digg


3
Attending Local User Groups


Attend events where people
smarter than you gather on a
regular basis.
Mark Ng


refreshingcities.org

Refresh


opencoffee.ning.com

OpenCoffee


pubstandards.co.uk

PubStandards


Drink lots of beer. Surround
yourself with people better
than you at all sorts of things.
James Darling


4
Talking With Peers


Mailing Lists


Twitter


IRC


5
Writing


I started blogging about web
development in 2002, and quickly
found that explaining things to
other people helped me
understand them better myself.
Simon Willison


Articles


Books


6
Presenting


At Work


Barcamp


7
Contributing to Open Source


Not Just For Developers


Designers

GitHub


8
Playing


Set aside time to learn a new
technique once a week that is
completely unrelated to the stuff
you do on a day to day basis.
Mark Ng


TweetCC


Huffduffer


Wildlife Near You


GitBug


Microformats


Rev=Canonical


Curiosity and playing with
things. Fuck blogs, events,
books. Play has always taught
me more than anything else.
There is no substitute for direct
experience.
Mark Norman Francis


It’s Up To You (Not Your Boss)


Fail lots. You can learn a lot from
other people, but the best way
of getting better at anything is to
make mistakes.
James Aylett


When you find something that
you find interesting take the time
to figure out why. It lets you
learn from other peoples'
experience and understand
your own bias.
Mike Stenhouse


Everyone I respect is incredibly
passionate about what they
do, with the chops to argue
their corner when needed, but
with enough humility to know
when they’re wrong.
Steve Marshall

Do what you enjoy, and ﬁnd
enjoyment in everything you can.
James Darling


Attending Conferences
Reading Blogs
Reading Everything
Talking With Peers
Writing
Presenting
Playing

So...


in order of appearance

Simon Willison simonwillison.net
Mark Ng markng.co.uk
James Darling coupde.com
Mark Norman Francis cackhanded.net
Bradley Wright intranation.com
James Aylett tartarus.org/james
Mike Stenhouse donotremove.co.uk
Steve Marshall nascentguruism.com

Quotes From These People


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flickr.com/photos/frotzed/2058940606/
flickr.com/photos/aquan/2794293901
flickr.com/photos/fotorita/2405331612/
flickr.com/photos/redux/3397661276/

flickr.com/photos/brbl/2436828034/
flickr.com/photos/elkit/12088278/

flickr.com/photos/garethr/2274864619/
flickr.com/photos/collylogic/458642497/

flickr.com/photos/laruth/536581799/

flickr.com/photos/alistair_uk/2530894310/
flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/2283562484/

flickr.com/photos/mn_francis/392404523/

flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3397690785/ flickr.com/photos/garethr/1393657432/

flickr.com/photos/mlostracco/623510881/
xkcd.com/208/

Pictures From flickr


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