Becoming a Web Developer
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The Web has become the de facto storefront online, beating out a litany of competing technologies, and many desktop and mobile applications rely on a Web-based back-end. While the Web is only getting more complex, the fundamentals remain the same. In this talk, Josh will outline core concepts and technologies as well as the choices we face including: - which languages to use - when to use a framework or a content management system - how to specialize in a saturated industry While this talk is tailored for people who are new to web development, the latter half provides a great opportunity for seasoned professionals to explore the technology landscape beyond WordPress and PHP. It will also be useful for decision makers, such as marketers and technical project managers.
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- 2. Web Technology What is the web platform? HTML, CSS, JavaScript Stacks Servers
- 3. Web Thinking Standards Open Source Web Services (API’s, Mashups, and standing on the shoulders of giants) The Uncertain Web
- 4. Tools and Process Editors Version Control Compilers and the Build Process Project Management Distributed Development
- 5. The Web in Practice I <3 LAMP Frameworks and CMS Progressive Enhancement Accessibility Security SEO and Sharability Intellectual Property
- 7. Gotchas Rise of the Expert Beginner JavaScript Required Photoshop First Bloat Documentation Input Sanitization Law of Leaky Abstractions
- 10. The Law of Leaky Abstractions “[T]he abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning… [E]ven as we have higher and higher level programming tools with better and better abstractions, becoming a proficient programmer is getting harder and harder.” - Joel Spolsky
- 12. What Next?
- 13. Follow the Web’s Best
- 14. Eric Meyer at Fluent 2015 by O’Reilly Media CC-BY-NC 2.0
- 15. Rachel Nabors at Beyond Tellerand by Marcel Böttcher CC-BY 2.0
- 16. Jakob Nielsen by Norman Nielsen Group, All Rights Reserved
- 17. Jen Simmons at An Event Apart by Jeffrey Zeldman CC-BY 2.0
- 18. Kyle Simpson by Arianne CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0
- 19. Lea Verou at Fluent 2014 by O’Reilly Media CC-BY-NC 2.0
- 20. Estelle Weyl at Fluent 2015 by O’Reilly Media CC-BY-NC 2.0
- 21. Luke Wroblewski at POL*2011 by Olavstoppen Stavanger CC-BY 2.0
- 22. Join the Community WIMPgives 2014 by Arken Studios, All Rights Reserved
- 23. Give Back WIMPgives 2014 by Arken Studios, All Rights Reserved
- 24. Get to Work OSCON 2014 by O’Reilly Media CC-BY-NC 2.0
- 25. Never Stop Learning OSCON 2014 by O’Reilly Media CC-BY-NC 2.0
- 27. “With the rise of native apps and the Internet of Things (IoT), you might think we’re leaving the web behind. We’re not.” — Simon. St Laurent
- 28. Becoming a Web Developer community manager @joshsimmons aka bluesomewhere @oreillymedia @oscon @fluentconf want the slide deck? slideshare.net/joshsimmons 20% off O’Reilly Fluent or OSCON reg with code: CMSCALE free ebooks on web development: oreil.ly/scalewebdev
Editor's Notes
- hello! I am… today we’re covering: web tech: core and adjacent technologies web thinking: the grain of the web (thx Frank Chimero) tools and process practical considerations “stacks” gotchas next steps housekeeping slides are NOT that interesting, based roughly on outline of the book I’m writing for O’Reilly, but there ARE speaker notes and the slide deck will be posted to Slideshare as well as Internet Archive (along with audio and video) note taking encouraged some may be basic if you’ve been in the industry, but unlike other web dev intros I include a bit of philosophy and history…. basically, vote with your feet! feel free to raise your hand for questions, I *may* wait until the end of the slide, but I’ll take as many questions as I can of course, I work for O’Reilly, which means there’s a free ebook (I’ve picked 12 relevant titles) waiting for you at the end of the talk, as well as discounts to Fluent and OSCON ready?
- What is the web platform? Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN HTML, CSS, JavaScript separation of concerns standards not monoliths (but really only rely on HTTP and HTML) Stacks sets of tools and server side languages, we’ll go over these later Servers name servers (domains come from registrars) mail databases web
- Standards arbiters between browsers, vendors, and developers HTML: W3C and WHATWG CSS: W3C JavaScript: Ecma International Open Source Linux, Apache, and much much more don’t forget this used to be radical Web Services think web 2.0, AJAX, and Google Maps increasing complexity! API’s out there for doing natural language parsing, guessing a person’s location based on IP address, The Uncertain Web browsers, devices (phones, cars, watches, TV’s, virtual reality), humans and robots NPR’s COPE!
- Editors from Notepad to Sublime to Eclipse Version Control Git, mostly Compilers not common in web development but cross compilers are becoming more common as are automated build processes Project Management pick a tool and stick to it iterative vs waterfall methodologies (false dichotomy, BTW) Distributed Development ad-hoc teams and remote working communication testing
- LAMP’s ubiquity (but really less LAMP these days, Nginx, Postgres) Frameworks and CMS are what most development happens with, very little ground-up, unless you’re building one-off tools (omg WordPress and Durpal)
- *complexity/decoupling/low lvl vs high lvl etc
- last one, then on to Join the Community
- Give Back WIMPgives open source standards
- Get to Work supply / demand freelance, agency, startups, SMB, enterprise specialization high level engineering and architecture web operations and devops user experience design and information architecture data science management marketing
- Never Stop Learning books, blogs, and videos courses and bootcamps community and corporate conferences, regional and national
- when not to use the web? I like to think of native as the testing ground for what gets rolled into the web web icons can be on mobile screens web can use microphone and webcam web can use local storage don’t use the web when: the features you need are cutting edge and not well supported or they’re slow