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a Practical Designer’s Guide to Next-level Your Developexpertise
Who are you?

Justin Sternberg:

  • Developer Lead at WebDevStudios
  • Lead Developer of CMB2
  • Husband & dad of 3 kiddos
  • @jtsternberg on twitter

What do you want?

I want to help make that designer/developer transition and learning curve a little less scary.

 

Maybe… even a little exciting.

Why you?

Designeveloper

Defined:

Designer

Web Designer

Front-End Developer

Back-End Developer

Etc

How do I get started?

How do I keep moving?

What… is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Follow

Follow

 

Twitter

WordPress Trac

Github/Commit History

RSS

Reference

Reference

 

Bookmark

Save Snippets

Develop a Personal Reference (Evernote?)

Practice

Practice

 

…practice practice

Write themes

Write plugins

Write tutorials & snippets

Support forums

Feedback

Feedback

 

Release it! Open source it!

wordpress.org, github, bitbucket

Contribute

Free feedback from others & especially project leads.

Feedback

 

Blog/Gist/Share

Yep, you’ll get some “you’re doing it wrong” feedback. Perfect!

Give Back

Give Back

 

Help those behind you

Contribute

“If you can help me, I would love to write a tutorial”

Repeat!

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