Re: Keeping current

This is an important issue.  There are so many advances of one kind or 
another in our field, it's possible to spend your entire time keeping up.  
So the trick would be to work out what you need to keep up about, and what 
you can let go.

But if you take that view, you need to know what's going on in the areas 
you're not staying tight with, so you make sure you dont let anything 
important get away from you.

I keep up with developments in the field with a couple of email bulletins, 
and  some daily bulletins.  There's a lot of them at www.tipworld.com   you 
can have them send daily bulletins about tips and developments on about 40 
or more topics.

And I use the HWG lists.  When discussion starts about how to do this or 
that and seems to occupy a lot of people's minds, and I know nothing about 
that topic, its an indication that perhaps there's a subject I'd better bone 
up on.

Another excellent resource is the webmonkey site. (www.webmonkey.com)  there 
you can see what people are demanding tutorials about, perhaps indicating 
important issues that you need to get up to date on - and you can get 
started right away.


But I think you have to relax about technology.  No matter how many things 
you are expert in, there will still be a zillion other disciplines you are 
hopelessly ill-informed about.  Go ahead and learn everything you need to 
know about FLash4 and just as you're proficient, they'll bring out Flash5 or 
a competitor will bring out something better.  You have to pick out a few 
disciplines you're going to be expert in and keep up with every development, 
and for all the rest,  just be happy to know where you can find out what you 
need, or know where you can hire in experts in that field.

Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development
Windsor, NSW, Australia
http://www.afp.zip.com.au


>From: Wiers <wiers(at)willard-oh.com>
>To: HWG techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Subject: Keeping current
>Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 09:16:40 -0500
>
>Hello eAll--
>
>This list continues to inform and inspire.  Now I'm wondering...
>
>What online resources do y'all use to stay current with technical news
>and information pertaining to what we do?  Of course, one obvious source
>is the work of W3C, and perhaps the technical sections of online
>newspapers, ezines, etc.  But I am wondering if anyone has a resource or
>two that s/he would like to share which serves as an invaluable aid to
>keeping current?
>
>Thanks,
>Margie
>
>
>

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