Self Education for Web Professionals
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The document discusses various methods for self-education as a web professional, including attending conferences, reading blogs and publications, participating in local user groups, writing, presenting, contributing to open source projects, and playing with new technologies. It provides quotes from several individuals about their approaches and perspectives on ongoing learning and professional development.
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- 4. morethanseven.net Gareth Rushgrove gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 5. Whatās Your Job Title? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 6. Developers? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 7. Designers? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 8. Students? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 9. Educators? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 10. Others? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 11. State of Play gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 12. Children of the Internet gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 13. Professional? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 14. A List Apart Survey gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 15. Chris Mills from Opera gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 16. opera.com/company/education/curriculum Opera Web Standards Curriculum gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 17. WaSP Education Task Force gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 18. interact.webstandards.org WaSP Interact gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 19. Habits gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 21. 1 Reading Blogs gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 22. Trawling through RSS feeds for stuff to blog about continually keeps me informed about all sorts of things. Simon Willison gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 23. 0 - 1345 Unscientiļ¬c Survey gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 24. Publish Your OPML gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 25. 2 Reading Everything gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 26. Reddit, Hacker News, Digg gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 27. 3 Attending Local User Groups gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 28. Attend events where people smarter than you gather on a regular basis. Mark Ng gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 29. refreshingcities.org Refresh gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 30. opencoffee.ning.com OpenCoffee gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 31. pubstandards.co.uk PubStandards gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 32. Drink lots of beer. Surround yourself with people better than you at all sorts of things. James Darling gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 33. Unconferences
- 34. 4 Talking With Peers gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 35. Mailing Lists gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 36. Twitter gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 37. IRC gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 38. 5 Writing gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 39. 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 gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 40. Articles gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 41. Books gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 42. 6 Presenting gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 43. At Work gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 44. Barcamp gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 45. 7 Contributing to Open Source gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 46. Open Source Can Be Fun
- 47. Not Just For Developers gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 48. Designers gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 49. GitHub gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 50. 8 Playing gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 51. 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 gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 52. TweetCC gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 53. Huffduffer gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 54. Wildlife Near You gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 55. GitBug gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 56. Microformats gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 57. Rev=Canonical gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 58. 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 gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 59. Itās Up To You (Not Your Boss) gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 60. 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 gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 61. When you ļ¬nd something that you ļ¬nd interesting take the time to ļ¬gure out why. It lets you learn from other peoples' experience and understand your own bias. Mike Stenhouse gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 62. 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 theyāre wrong. Steve Marshall
- 63. Do what you enjoy, and ļ¬nd enjoyment in everything you can. James Darling gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 64. Attending Conferences Reading Blogs Reading Everything Attending Local User Groups Talking With Peers Writing Presenting Contributing to Open Source Playing So... gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 65. Attending Conferences Reading Blogs Reading Everything Attending Local User Groups Talking With Peers Writing Presenting Contributing to Open Source Playing So... gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 66. Attending Conferences Reading Blogs Reading Everything Attending Local User Groups Talking With Peers Writing Presenting Contributing to Open Source Playing So... gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 67. Attending Conferences Reading Blogs Reading Everything Attending Local User Groups Talking With Peers Writing Presenting Contributing to Open Source Playing So... gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 68. Attending Conferences Reading Blogs Reading Everything Attending Local User Groups Talking With Peers Writing Presenting Contributing to Open Source Playing So... gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 69. Attending Conferences Reading Blogs Reading Everything Attending Local User Groups Talking With Peers Writing Presenting Contributing to Open Source Playing So... gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 70. Attending Conferences Reading Blogs Reading Everything Attending Local User Groups Talking With Peers Writing Presenting Contributing to Open Source Playing So... gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 71. Attending Conferences Reading Blogs Reading Everything Attending Local User Groups Talking With Peers Writing Presenting Contributing to Open Source Playing So... gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
- 72. Attending Conferences Reading Blogs Reading Everything Attending Local User Groups Talking With Peers Writing Presenting Contributing to Open Source Playing So...
- 73. 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 gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net
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- 75. Thank you. Questions? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net