Code School just launched JavaScript.com, a page dedicated to all things JS. Basically, the page is split into Resources and News, which can also be subscribed to via an Email Newsletter called FiveJS (5 Minutes of JavaScript).
First thought: Heck, i wanna to know what they paid for this domain.
Second thought while looking through the news and resources: After all these years working with the web it still amazes me how much knowledge you can get for free.
We’d be a lot more successful if organized schooling was all about creating an atmosphere where we can sell commitment (and where people will buy it). A committed student with access to resources is almost unstoppable.
(Seth Godin)
Love this quote.
A Year from Now You May Wish You Had Started Today
(Karen Lamb)
If you use code on a daily basis, i’m pretty sure you also have a big pile of functions, classes and snippets that you used over and over again but never fully grasped how exactly they work in detail. That little snippet you found in a tutorial some years ago or that small bit of code you borrowed from a plugin and included in your themes ever since. Because they just worked, without the need to understand every single line of every bit of code you use.
The last weeks i started to make it a regular habit to take one piece of code and take it apart until i fully understand it. Whether that is a function in WP Core (or any other software you’re using) or just a small code-snippet i used over and over again. I take that code, read through it line by line, and if there is just one single comma i don’t understand i stop and google it, look it up on stackoverflow etc. until i find out exactly why it is there and what it does.
The trick here is to only take small regular steps, one at a time. You would be a fool to think you could master Regular Expressions in just some minutes, but taking apart that one function that uses some Regular Expressions isn’t that hard, gets you started and gets you the satisfaction of having learned something new.
You’ll be amazed how much you will learn without really investing a lot of time.