While thinking about my career, it’s important to reflect on my current skills and interests to gain visibility into where I want to go.
Progress
I’m super comfortable with CSS and layout. I’ve made a lot of progress this year. Box model, margin vs padding, absolute vs relative positioning, overflow and scrolling, :hover and other pseudo-elements, line height, all of these I feel are pretty well handled.
I’ve learned a lot about agile and project management this year. Through book club, I’ve read several interesting books and discussed how this applies to our work. I’ve learned the differences between Scrum and Kanban. Also I’d be careful on how Lean MVP is left to interpretation and some pitfalls in version testing. I’d recommend the following books: Phoenix, The Goal, The Lean Entrepreneur, Tribal Leadership.
To improve
I want to better understand Javascript binding, scope and timing. I started programming from C++ and PHP, then Java, then ActionScript and THEN JS, so by now I’ve got a bit of scattered understanding of correct program flow. I should get JS nailed down better.
I need to be more comfortable working within MVC frameworks. I understand the concept of why you’d want to use them, but I’m still pretty slow when matching up a concepts to application. When it comes to comparing frameworks, I’ll get hung up on the syntax. In addition I want to be familiar with the differences between the frameworks such as backbone, angular, bootstrap, spring etc.