Endless learning….
There is no end in sight for this topic really, as far as I can see. There will always be the next big thing. Ruby on Rails, Ajax, Flex2, and who knows what next.
I don’t find this a bad thing at all, what makes this field so exiting is how fast it changes. Think, that around the year 2001 the internet bubble burst and things looked gray. Now, with the philosophy of Web 2.0 in the world of the Internet things change up again. I am encouraged by the need to keep learning new technology, languages, frameworks, and approaches to web design and development.
So, how do I keep up? Books, and www.lynda.com keep me moving forward. I know enough about computer science so that I can take on new languages, but the libraries take most of time in my learning curve. Although my subscription to lynda.com does not cover all the things I want to learn it does a pretty good job. I recently burned through the Essentials of Flex2, and am going to work on the Beyond the Basics tutorials. I plan to write a web for a Canadian Aboriginal Website. I think this will pretty good.
Book I liked:
- Don’t make me think, Steve Krug
- Bullet Proof web design, Dan Cederholm
- The Zen of CSS Design, both the book and the website
Check them out, you wont be disappointed. I am also reading Agile Web Development with Rails, but am not finished. Its taken a while to get my head wrapped around conventions but it makes great sense. More on this tomorrow.
Thanks for reading
Arnold
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