Nurturing the roots

Web development has a plethora of tools to learn and evolving technologies to keep up with. It's easy to be overwhelmed. To combat this we should be focusing on the core skills of our field first, growing our skill set over time, adding tools and systems as we need them. The vibrant community in this industry makes that easy, with experienced developers always out there to help others in so many ways. Not forgetting that we can all be novices in some form so sharing with the community whatever your level will always be useful to someone at sometime.

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1. Nurturing the roots @onishiweb
2. About me... @onishiweb
3. @onishiweb Front end Development
4. Front end @onishiweb “... is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.”
5. Front end @onishiweb HTML5 Css Js Php LESS Sass Compass Bourbon Grids Frameworks Grunt Coffeescript Ember Angular jQuery Backbone Fuel Laravel Composer WordPress Drupal Jekyll Perch Meteor Performance Canvas SVG Ruby? CSS3 APIs Git SVN OOCSS Node.js A11y RWD
6. @onishiweb Pressure
7. @onishiweb pressure
8. @onishiweb pressure 91 People 48 Sources 46 Confs
9. @onishiweb pressure The pusher...
10. @onishiweb A barrier to entry ..?
11. barrier to entry @onishiweb HTML5 Css Js Php LESS Sass Compass Bourbon Grids Frameworks Grunt Coffeescript Ember Angular jQuery Backbone Fuel Laravel Composer WordPress Drupal Jekyll Perch Meteor Performance Canvas SVG Ruby? CSS3 APIs Git SVN OOCSS Node.js A11y
12. @onishiweb HTML5 Css Js Php LESS Sass Compass Bourbon Grids Frameworks Grunt Coffeescript Ember Angular jQuery Backbone Fuel Laravel Composer WordPress Drupal Jekyll Perch Meteor Performance Canvas SVG Ruby? CSS3 APIs Git SVN OOCSS Node.js A11y barrier to entry
13. @onishiweb my experience
14. @onishiweb my experience My first website
15. @onishiweb my experience
16. @onishiweb my experience University
17. @onishiweb HTML5 Css Js Php LESS Sass Compass Bourbon Grids Frameworks Grunt Coffeescript Ember Angular jQuery Backbone Fuel Laravel Composer WordPress Drupal Jekyll Perch Meteor Performance Canvas SVG Ruby? CSS3 APIs Git SVN OOCSS Node.js A11y my experience
18. @onishiweb my experience 4 years ago...
19. @onishiweb my experience the point
20. @onishiweb how do we deal with this?
21. @onishiweb how? It starts with the roots
22. @onishiweb how? “All of these things are power tools used by experts, and power tools in the hands of beginners is sometimes a very bad idea” - Christian Heilmann
23. @onishiweb how? what’s required?
24. @onishiweb how? make the right decision! Chris Coyier http://bit.ly/UbdvIe
25. @onishiweb how? "Build what it is you want to build and learn as you go" http://themakersofthings.co.uk/ - Mike Chrisp, SMEE Member
26. @onishiweb nurturing the roots
27. @onishiweb nurturing responsibility
28. @onishiweb nurturing view source?
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30. @onishiweb nurturing /_src/
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34. @onishiweb nurturing education Workshops Apprenticeships Internships Lecturing Teaching
35. @onishiweb nurturing education Writing Speaking Code Club Podcasting Events Mentoring Workshops Apprenticeships Internships Lecturing Teaching Work Experience
36. @onishiweb nurturing i can’t do that!
37. @onishiweb “You need great passion. Because everything you do with pleasure you do well.” - Juan Manuel Fangio
38. @onishiweb Thanks!