Web Development Progress

So I haven't made the same amount of progress that I might have wanted to in web development. That doesn't mean I'm not interested in it. I'm going to need to set my Netflix account to the side for a little while so I can focus on web development training. I do enjoy watching movies and TV shows.

I have been reading through Murach's HTML, XHTML, and CSS to get some of the basics down. I've been through 5 chapters so far and feel that I have a decent grasp of style sheets now. I think this just gives me a basic understanding because until you do this more it's not as easy.  I view it kind of like football players.  Until they mature and do it enough they think to much instead of just reacting and knowing exactly what to do.

For a little bit of a changeup and because I love their books, I started reading Head First Ajax today. Ajax is rampant right now and I know I'm starting to get behind on this. I'm just on the first chapter but already the book is looking to be exciting.

Interview with Google

I was contacted by Google recently about the possibility of working there. Let me first say that this really took me by surprise. I should be contacting them, but no they contacted me. So that definitely was a cool experience. Today I had a small phone interview with them. I'm not sure that I did very well, but it was an interesting experience nonetheless. It made me think more than I had in a while and that was a good thing. As it started kicking in and after the interview let's just say that I had many interesting thoughts invading my head. I'm hoping at some point to see some of these come through.

Web Development

I am finally trying to join the blogging community and talk more of things that interest me and also things that I am doing, whether it's work or fun.

I have spent my entire career in software development and up to now that has been exclusively in the WinForms framework of .Net. As I see the direction of development moving from content and training topics etc., I see that Web Development is the ways things are heading. This is a hard thing for me to do, but I think I need to learn web development. Up to this point I had always viewed web development as a "red-headed stepchild." I have now learned of some of the technologies and seen some of the direction and it's pretty interesting now.

Currently this is going to be a learning process that I have to do on my own free time because the situation at where I work is that everything is done as a WinForms application. And before you ask, no we're not doing WPF, although I'm trying to get us heading that direction. But back to the point, I have been going through Murach's HTML, XHTML, and CSS book. It is really interesting so far. Hoping to continue moving forward, but needing to start at the basics and move forward.

If anybody has any good suggestions as I venture down this path let me know.