Mar
12
Complete waste of time or professional development ?
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SMASHINGMAGAZINE.COM is my new favorite website, I visit it every day.
This website has become (to me) a core resource, giving tips, tricks, code, demos, thoughts and tutorials about everything web related. Need to know more about CSS ? Check out 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding or how about some AJAX for your new web application ? 70 New, Useful AJAX and Javascript Techniques
Ok, they’re not all 70’s but you get the idea. The unfortunate thing is the vastness of the site. I have no idea how large it is, it just goes on and on and on. Beware, you’ll spend a lot of time here, sometimes too much time. I still go from page to page like a wide eyed kid in a toy store, clicking on demos, and bookmarking articles. I realize an hour has passed, but the good thing is that you’ll be a better ______ after it (programmer, designer, interface architect … whatever). So to deal with amy slight guilt for cruizing the web, I chalk it up to professional development. No one had to pay for me to drive/fly somewhere, put me up in a hotel for a couple days and attend a boring class. I ‘blew’ 2 hours online and I can almost always instantly improve something I’ve already written or get a head start on accomplishing something I need to do.
Fantastic resource, great reading - I’d recommend to to everyone.