Code Club Queens Park
Josh has been teaching HTML and CSS schoolkids. I love the pages that they’ve made. I really mean it. I genuinely think these are wonderful!
Tags: learning
Those who teach, learn.
I concur with Ryan’s findings:
The best way to get better at what you do is to teach others how to do it, too.
Specializing yourself into a corner by Scott Kellum
I can empathise with Scott’s worries about fragmentation on the front-end with Saas, Styles, LESS, Compass, yada, yada, yada.
I want to share my code with everyone who writes CSS, not a subset of that group.
Soundslice: Tabs have never sounded so good
A lovely new service from Adrian that allows you to sync up guitar tabs with videos. It’s a very impressive in-browser app.
Hacking the Future: Clare Sutcliffe at TEDxBrighton - YouTube
A great short talk from Clare about Code Club.
TEDxToronto 2012 Talk - Ryan Henson Creighton
And this is why Code Club is such a great initiative.
Learnable Programming
It’s a long one, and it’s kind of meta, but if you have any interest in the idea of programming, this in-depth knowledge bomb from Bret Victor is well worth your time.
Creative JavaScript Training on Vimeo
I’m going to be attending Seb’s CreativeJS and HTML5 course in Brighton on September 13th and 14th …and I strongly suspect that it’s going to be great.
Implementing Responsive Design | Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web
Tim’s book is ready for pre-order. Looks like it’s going to be good one.
» 13 July 2012, baked by Bruce Lawson @ The Pastry Box Project
More on View Source, this time from Bruce.
The Web has thrived on people viewing source, copying and pasting, then tweaking until they get the page they want.
Things that compile to JavaScript
Stuart on the importance of View Source.
JS Hotline: (877) 300-2187
I love this! A volunteer-run hotline for answering JavaScript questions (set up by the awesome Garann Means, who literally wrote the book on Node.js).
I think I might volunteer my services.
Code Club
This is an excellent idea: get a whole bunch of after-school code clubs going to teach kids how to code in Scratch.
12412 - Experience and learn 12 new web technologies in 12 months
Here’s a challenge for the new year: use each month as an opportunity to try out a new web technology.
Set yourself small, achievable projects to work on and use 12412.org as a support group. We will all help to motivate each other and join in to offer help where we can.
Designers, what’s the rush? | Normative - Design for Devices and the Web
A plea for more time.
We tend to think in 2 to 5 year scales, maybe we need to be thinking in longer time lines about our own careers and skills.
Retreats 4 Geeks presents Progressive Enhancement — 25–30 March 2012
Roll up, roll up! Get five nights food and lodging at a fantastic luxury horse ranch in the Rockies in March.
Oh, and myself and Aaron will be running workshops on progressive enhancement for you during that time too.
Just keep going — Owltastic — writing about web design by Meagan Fisher
A very honest post from Meagan that I can relate to (and Jessica too, I suspect).
Weightshift — Memo: The New Design
Naz shares his advice for up-and-coming designers …and the institutions that educate them.
CS404
This looks like an excellent event: learn about programming without being a programmer.
Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World
I don't agree with everything in these vignettes but they make for an good, thought-provoking read.
home | WaSP InterAct Curriculum
Announced at SXSW, this is the curriculum that the Web Standards Project has been working on. Education, education, education.
CSS Training Courses with edgeofmyseat.com
Want to learn CSS kung-fu? Get thee to Maidenhead on October 29th and you can learn from the best: Rachel Andrew and Drew McLellan.