Self Education for Web Professionals

gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

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Gareth Rushgrove


morethanseven.net

http://opencoffee.ning.com


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 Web Standards Curriculum


opera.com/company/education/curriculum



WaSP Education Task Force


WaSP Interact


interact.webstandards.org



Habits


Attending Conferences

0

Reading Blogs


1

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


Unscientific Survey


0 - 1345

Publish Your OPML


Reading Everything


2

Reddit, Hacker News, Digg


Attending Local User Groups


3

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


Mark Ng

Refresh


refreshingcities.org



OpenCoffee


opencoffee.ning.com



PubStandards


pubstandards.co.uk



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


James Darling

Unconferences

Talking With Peers


4

Mailing Lists


Twitter


IRC


Writing


5

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


Presenting


6

At Work


Barcamp


Contributing to Open Source


7

Open Source Can Be Fun

Not Just For Developers



Designers

GitHub


Playing


8

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


Mike Stenhouse

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.

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


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Quotes From These People


Simon Willison simonwillison.netMark Ng markng.co.uk

James Darling coupde.com

Mark Norman Francis cackhanded.net

Bradley Wright intranation.com

James Aylett tartarus.org/james

in order of appearance

Mike Stenhouse donotremove.co.uk

Steve Marshall nascentguruism.com

Pictures From flickr


flickr.com/photos/elkit/12088278/

flickr.com/photos/garethr/2274864619/



flickr.com/photos/mn_francis/392404523/

flickr.com/photos/redux/3397661276/

flickr.com/photos/aquan/2795141674/

flickr.com/photos/aquan/2794293901

flickr.com/photos/collylogic/458642497/

flickr.com/photos/laruth/536581799/

xkcd.com/208/


flickr.com/photos/brbl/2436828034/

flickr.com/photos/fotorita/2405331612/

flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3397690785/

flickr.com/photos/frotzed/2058940606/

flickr.com/photos/anniemole/3392604462/

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

flickr.com/photos/mlostracco/623510881/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elkit/12088278/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elkit/12088278/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/garethr/2274864619/






http://www.flickr.com/photos/mn_francis/392404523/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mn_francis/392404523/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/3397661276/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/3397661276/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aquan/2795141674/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aquan/2795141674/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aquan/2794293901

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aquan/2794293901

http://www.flickr.com/photos/collylogic/458642497/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/collylogic/458642497/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laruth/536581799/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laruth/536581799/

http://xkcd.com/208/

http://xkcd.com/208/



http://www.flickr.com/photos/brbl/2436828034/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brbl/2436828034/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotorita/2405331612/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotorita/2405331612/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3397690785/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3397690785/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/frotzed/2058940606/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/frotzed/2058940606/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anniemole/3392604462/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anniemole/3392604462/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alistair_uk/2530894310/in/set-72157613738203361/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alistair_uk/2530894310/in/set-72157613738203361/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/2283562484/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/2283562484/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlostracco/623510881/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlostracco/623510881/

Thank you. Questions?


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