They say foreign language skills are good skills to have, but I got sick of learning Chinese and German a long time ago. I was never very good at conjugating my verbs. Feeling like photography was my only job skill, I figured it a good time to revamp my language skills. But I’m not talking about Chinese or German. The ones I’m talking about are the languages spoken in the land of computers. A lot of people consider HTML and CSS to be Greek to them, but maybe we could drop the R and it’d be even more fitting. I’m revamping my Geek.
I’d call my HTML conversational, possibly proficient - sometimes in need of peeking in a language dictionary… Google. My CSS is ridiculously poor, and is mostly trial and error. And my java-script skills are about on par with counting to three in French. I’m also reviewing my Flash, which is so different than anything else, I think it must be a lot like learning sign language… or braille. We’re going to start doing audio slideshows at work, and I have to master my Flash skills. Some examples of what I’ve been putzing with are now located in the photos section of this website.
The way journalism is shifting online, this all seems pretty logical stuff to learn. Plus I like it most of the time. I try to minimize the time spent on it - maybe one coding session every few weeks, in order to not murder my brain. I did one tonight, and my brain is now so fried, it hurts just typing this.
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