http://www.dianazink.com/blog/designer-friendly-javascript-and-ajax/ This blog is about the web: the ideas behind it, the design that represents it, and the engineering that makes it tick. Read, share, discuss, and enjoy! Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:33:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.dianazink.com/blog/designer-friendly-javascript-and-ajax/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Diana Zink Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:27:34 +0000 http://www.dianazink.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/18/designer-friendly-javascript-and-ajax/#comment-6 There are many paths and many trends, and I will only list a few here, reserving the details for a new post. For a start - publishing houses nowadays seem to specialize in targeted audiences. As a result, it has become a standard that FriendsOfEd.com, Apress, New Riders, and Wiley will offer the best and latest in front end and flash development. Sites like A List Apart are also a major pivot in knowledge gathering. Guides like this will hopefully become another resource. Expect additional guides from this blog on learning CSS, JAVA, PHP and more... There are many paths and many trends, and I will only list a few here, reserving the details for a new post. For a start - publishing houses nowadays seem to specialize in targeted audiences. As a result, it has become a standard that FriendsOfEd.com, Apress, New Riders, and Wiley will offer the best and latest in front end and flash development. Sites like A List Apart are also a major pivot in knowledge gathering. Guides like this will hopefully become another resource. Expect additional guides from this blog on learning CSS, JAVA, PHP and more…

]]> http://www.dianazink.com/blog/designer-friendly-javascript-and-ajax/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Mark Maximus Muskardin Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:31:56 +0000 http://www.dianazink.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/18/designer-friendly-javascript-and-ajax/#comment-5 Great post. I quite often feel exasperated at the deluge of new information out there about every technology under the sun. It's difficult for me to step into a Borders or Barnes & Noble knowing full well that I will shell out $100 to buy books I know I will not have the time to fully complete. Which makes me wonder: how do today's tech-savvy people keep abreast of the latest technologies? How do we continually refine our skills and learn more and more to remain on the cutting edge? Is it a simple matter of having the discipline to pursue a steady diet of, say, 2-3 hrs per day devoted strictly to experimentation and study-time? How do other developers deal with the addiction of needing to know everything juxtaposed to the reality of limited time? It would be quite useful if the digerati of the web world were to assemble a clear-cut path to varying levels of web expertise. A path that would include a selection of cherry-picked must-reads and a whole lot more. Great post. I quite often feel exasperated at the deluge of new information out there about every technology under the sun. It’s difficult for me to step into a Borders or Barnes & Noble knowing full well that I will shell out $100 to buy books I know I will not have the time to fully complete. Which makes me wonder: how do today’s tech-savvy people keep abreast of the latest technologies? How do we continually refine our skills and learn more and more to remain on the cutting edge? Is it a simple matter of having the discipline to pursue a steady diet of, say, 2-3 hrs per day devoted strictly to experimentation and study-time? How do other developers deal with the addiction of needing to know everything juxtaposed to the reality of limited time? It would be quite useful if the digerati of the web world were to assemble a clear-cut path to varying levels of web expertise. A path that would include a selection of cherry-picked must-reads and a whole lot more.

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