Keeping up with the Zeldmans
Self Education for Web Professionals
Bamboo Juice 24th April 2009
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Keeping up with the Keiths
Self Education for Web Professionals
Bamboo Juice 24th April 2009
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Keeping up with the Boags
Self Education for Web Professionals
Bamboo Juice 24th April 2009
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What’s Your Job Title?
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Developers?
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Designers?
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Students?
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Educators?
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Others?
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State of Play
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Children of the Internet
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Professional?
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A List Apart Survey
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Chris Mills from Opera
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opera.com/company/education/curriculum
Opera Web Standards Curriculum
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WaSP Education Task Force
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interact.webstandards.org
WaSP Interact
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Habits
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Attending Conferences

1
Reading Blogs
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Trawling through RSS feeds for
stuff to blog about continually
keeps me informed about all
sorts of things.
Simon Willison
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Unscientific Survey
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Publish Your OPML
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Reading Everything
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Reddit, Hacker News, Digg
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3
Attending Local User Groups
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Attend events where people
smarter than you gather on a
regular basis.
Mark Ng
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refreshingcities.org
Refresh
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opencoffee.ning.com
OpenCoffee
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pubstandards.co.uk
PubStandards
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Drink lots of beer. Surround
yourself with people better
than you at all sorts of things.
James Darling
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Unconferences

4
Talking With Peers
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Mailing Lists
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Twitter
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IRC
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Writing
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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
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Articles
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Books
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Presenting
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At Work
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Barcamp
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Contributing to Open Source
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Open Source Can Be Fun

Not Just For Developers
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Designers
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GitHub
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8
Playing
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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
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TweetCC
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Huffduffer
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Wildlife Near You
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GitBug
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Microformats
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Rev=Canonical
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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
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It’s Up To You (Not Your Boss)
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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
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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
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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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Attending Conferences
Reading Blogs
Reading Everything
Attending Local User Groups
Talking With Peers
Writing
Presenting
Contributing to Open Source
Playing
So...
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attending Conferences
Reading Blogs
Reading Everything
Attending Local User Groups
Talking With Peers
Writing
Presenting
Contributing to Open Source
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/elkit/12088278/
flickr.com/photos/garethr/2274864619/
flickr.com/photos/collylogic/458642497/
flickr.com/photos/laruth/536581799/
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flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/2283562484/
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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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Thank you. Questions?
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