Hello!
@ncthis
Web Dev is ...
2004
2014
Browser wars happened...
Along came V8...
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
// todo
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)
Things I wish someone told me about webdev
By Nadeesha Cabral
