December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
6h 14m
English
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Chapter 1. Embracing Uncertainty
The web platform is Write Once, Cry Everywhere.
— Yehuda Katz
I love the Web. I’ve been making sites for a living since 1999, and I still love the work as much as I did in those crazy days. I’m not sure how many other folks I know who can say the same thing about their profession. Admittedly, the Web has been very good to me. I’ve been able to travel the world, have written a bunch of articles and a couple of books, and have paid my bills with nothing but a keyboard for the past decade and a half. The thing is, while all that is great and I thank my lucky stars that I’ve had this career, what I really love about the Web is that it made good on its early promise. It might have sounded a little hokey or looked like just hype to fill a five-minute slot on the evening news, but the Web really has managed to connect people in incredible ways—ways we couldn’t even have imagined 25 years ago. Individuals who would never have had a voice can now broadcast to the world with blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. Politicians, filmmakers, video game developers, and anyone else with an idea can tap into the power of individuals to finance their dreams, five dollars at a time. Lessons from the world’s great universities like Stanford and MIT, as well as lessons made directly for the Web from organizations like Khan Academy, are available for free to anyone in the world who can connect to the Web. With sites like GitHub, taking part in open source software is as ...
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