The Bookshelf
Sitting here at my desk waiting for MAMP to download so I can set up a server on my iMac, I looked up at my bookshelf.
Hmmm, so much info and in an age where everything is instant, it seems so difficult to get in all the knowledge and use it daily to keep it ingrained.
This is especially true as so much changes in the web field in a nano-second!
I am re-taking a PHP class, or as Platt College likes to say, auditing. If you don't use it you lose it I say, and I was recently overwhelmed by the files in WordPress when re-skinning a blog from a Photoshop file. It is actually my business site, Anubis Creative.
It's funny, and maybe it's just me, but I think sometimes that just because I bought a book I should know it's contents by what I term bookmosis, the fact that it is nearby... although I have not even cracked it open. Some special telepathy thing will happen because I took hard earned cash and bought it, thought about it, and got it.
It doesn't work that way and nothing is easy. I have indeed worked through many of those books, especially while I was taking the courses at Platt for my Web Development degree, but some I got from mentions on blogs, etc. I have them handy as a reference and that I know where to go for the answers when in a stymie.
For those interested, these are amazingly thorough and informative - a must have for anyone involved with web design and front end developing. And NO, I have not been approached or will receive anything for promoting these!
