What Am I Doing & What Is That?

5 key things I learnt to keep up with web technology changes.

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1. WHAT AM I DOING & WHAT IS THAT?
2. NEIL SWEENEY Software Engineer at Dootrix 19 years working with the web 10 years professional
3. WHO SAID? WHAT AM I DOING & WHAT IS THAT?
4. PRETTY MUCH EVERY DEVELOPER & DESIGNER (EVER!)
5. A QUICK HISTORY...
6. WHEN I FIRST STARTED 1997 - 2000 Layouts done by table Frames where the dogs "particulars" Animated GIFs EVERWHERE...
7. WEB GETS NOTICED 2000 - 2004 CSS started becoming more common Also PHP and ASP started making more (web) ground DHTML pages became the new GIFs...
8. "THE UNI YEARS" 2004 - 2007 Started to lose interest due to personal reasons Thought I knew better - read, "became an asshole" One key saving grace... Nick Whitelegg taught PHP!
9. FIRST 5 WORKING YEARS 2007 - 2012 Learning to develop in a business and part of a team Realising that you need to give yourself home and course work to do Learning to take critisim for what it is
10. LAST 5 WORKING YEARS 2012 - NOW JavaScript becoming one of the most popular languages Frameworks and tools coming and going quicker than ever Being an expert in one thing doesn't seem as viable*
11. WHAT DID I LEARN IN THAT TIME? 5 KEY THINGS
12. 1. LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS
13. 2. DON'T GET COMPLACENT
14. 3. SURROUND YOURSELF WITH PEERS
15. 4. CHALLENGE YOURSELF
16. 5. ENJOY WHAT YOU DO
17. BONUS...
18. DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE!
19. WOLFIEZERO.COM / @WOLFIEZERO THANK YOU!