Web Dev is ...
2014
We got crazy fast VMs
Processing HTML, CSS, JavaScript
We are in exciting times!
Anything you can imagine - in a browser!
Javascript is happening!
"JavaScript is the Assembly Language of the Web"
- Scott Hanselman
Javascript is here to stay
on the Web Client, Server, Desktop, Mobile, Wearable
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Things I wished someone told me
5 years ago about Web Development
(and Programming in General)
Become a text editor Ninja.
(VIM, Emacs, or even Sublime Text)
Learn how to type (fast)
"We are typists first, programmers second"
- Jeff Atwood
Master the terminal
(Not the Windows one)
Don't be a purist/specialist
(Specialisation is for the Insects)
Contribute to Open-Source
(Having a Github account helps)
Master an open-source stack
(Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript, etc. & SCM)
Hone your BS Meter!
(Read Stuff, Question Everything,
and Advice is useless more often than not)
Build your profile
(Projects, Blogs, Contributions)
There's no such thing
as a genius programmer.
Build Stuff!
(Do net let your job dictate who you are)