The Journey

A talk I gave for the first year of my old course about how I finished Uni with a job offer and how they can do the same.

Transcript

1. The Journey
2. Hello
3. I’m Tommy @tommypalm tommyp.org hi@tommyp.org
5. I’m a Web Developer
6. WTF?!
7. I make complicated websites
10. Database Server User (HTML)
11. Basecamp Groupon Shopify Github LinkedIn
12. #imd
13. ?
14. My Journey
20. FUCKING HORRIBLE
22. @tommypalm #949,101
24. Andy McMillian
25. @goodonpaper
26. #imd
27. Wordpress & Photoshop
28. Refresh Belfast
29. David J Rice
30. Ruby on Rails
31. PLACEMENT!
32. Finding a good placement is hard
33. Finding a bad placement is easy
34. Bad is almost as good as good
35. THE FEAR
36. 4TH YEAR
37. Major Project
40. source.rb
41. feedentry.rb
48. A Journey
50. Mike Krieger & Kevin Systrom
52. $1,000,000,000
53. $1,000,000,000 is a lot of money
54. You need to get there
55. I need to get there
56. I have no talent
57. “It isn’t that I know more than you, or I’m better than you. I’ve just been at it longer.”
58. To become better you must learn
59. HTML, CSS, JS, Wordpress, PHP, Rails, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc
60. Design, User Experience, Psychology
61. Be a Computer Person
62. Getting known
64. NO FUKIN TXT TALK OMG LOL
65. You need to blog
66. If you are trying to decide between a few people to fill a position, always hire the better writer. It doesn't matter if that person is a designer, programmer, marketer, salesperson, or whatever, the writing skills will pay off. Effective, concise writing and editing leads to effective, concise code, design, emails, instant messages, and more. ~ Getting Real - 37 Signals
72. Connections
73. Learn from others
74. Focus on doing
75. Specialise
76. Silicon Valley needs Designers
78. Don’t waste this
79. Questions? Tommy Palmer @tommypalm tommyp.org