Self Education for Web Professionals

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What’s Your Job Title? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Developers? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Designers? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Students? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Educators? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Others? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

State of Play gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Children of the Internet gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Professional? gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

A List Apart Survey gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Chris Mills from Opera gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

opera.com/company/education/curriculum Opera Web Standards Curriculum gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

WaSP Education Task Force gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

interact.webstandards.org WaSP Interact gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Habits gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

0 Attending Conferences

1 Reading Blogs gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

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

0 - 1345 Unscientiﬁc Survey gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Publish Your OPML gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

2 Reading Everything gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Reddit, Hacker News, Digg gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

3 Attending Local User Groups gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Attend events where people smarter than you gather on a regular basis. Mark Ng gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

refreshingcities.org Refresh gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

opencoffee.ning.com OpenCoffee gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

pubstandards.co.uk PubStandards gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Drink lots of beer. Surround yourself with people better than you at all sorts of things. James Darling gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Unconferences

4 Talking With Peers gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Mailing Lists gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Twitter gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

IRC gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

5 Writing gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

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

Articles gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Books gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

6 Presenting gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

At Work gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Barcamp gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

7 Contributing to Open Source gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Open Source Can Be Fun

Not Just For Developers gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Designers gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

GitHub gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

8 Playing gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

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

TweetCC gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Huffduffer gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Wildlife Near You gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

GitBug gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Microformats gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

Rev=Canonical gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

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

It’s Up To You (Not Your Boss) gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

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

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 gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

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 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 gareth rushgrove | morethanseven.net

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