Dan Denney — JavaScript Developer Training

Since 2008, Dan Denney has worked closely with designers and writing HTML, CSS and JavaScript. He also founded the Front End Design Conference in St. Petersburg, FL. After working as a front-end developer at Code School, Dan is currently unemployed so as to focus on building up his skills as a front-end engineer and find the right team. This episode of Non Breaking Space Show is sponsored by: CSS Dev Conf — Conference dedicated to CSS and its super friend technologies like JavaScript, Sass, npm, and more. A limited supply of Early Bird Tickets now on sale. Register now! UX Design Newsletter — A weekly free newsletter containing a collection of tutorials, articles, and videos about front-end design and development, plus tips on how to bring better engagement to the multi-device world curated by Christopher Schmitt. Sign up now! Time Jumps 2:14 How did you get into the web? 4:55 What was it about Future of Web Design that made it so special? 6:30 Naming things on the web is hard. 7:09 Did the Future of Web Design Conference make you excited to create your own conference? 8:20 What would you recommend to people who are interested in starting a conference? 10:30 Quitting a job and where to next? 13:20 Have you figured out what you don’t want to do? 17:30 What’s your feeling on the Javascript world we live in now in 2017? 22:20 Job postings are the bane of our industry. 24:45 Product designer is the new front end. 28:50 What tools or courses have you used to keep up? 32:30 Courses and tutorials fall out of date and are hard to keep up to date. 38:20 Have you experimented with VR or AR on the web? 40:40 What are the next topics or projects you’re looking to dive into? Links: Christopher Schmitt Christopher Schmitt on Twitter Dan Denney Dan Denney on Twitter Front End Design Conference Dan Denney on Github Dan Denney on CodePen Wes Bos Training Egghead Training Frontend Masters Non Breaking Space Show on TuneIn Non Breaking Space Show for Android Non Breaking Space Show on Google Play Non Breaking Space Show on iTunes Non Breaking Space Show on Facebook 📺 Non Breaking Space Show on YouTube Non Breaking Space Show Newsletter