Thanks for the encouragement. I'm pretty good at expressing myself with words (no braggin', as Will Sonnett used to say at 3am, just facts), but sometimes that expressive ability makes me come off like an arsehole. Most cause I'm kind of an arsehole. But my intentions are very good, for whatever that's worth. I read the fab docs yesterday. Anyways, I see the value of all these things. Just continuing to hold my face squarely in front of this here firehose.
The way I'm looking at the best practices thing is that there are best practices for working professionals, and there are best practices for students. I know that there are many more days ahead of me, reading docs, but at this point I'm flailing just to find the right docs to read (if you have any "everyone should read this" links or books, or hell, if someone's laid out a curriculum that you think I should follow, I'm all ears...). This whole experience has been very instructive, needless to say, and that's all I'm after for the moment - grand failures that reveal inner workings. In order to fail in a properly grand fashion, I need to have the ability to throw a wrench into the gears of the factory, which fortunately for us, is perfectly fine to do in circumstances where the entire factory can be restored by a keystroke. But the entire system is, of course, designed to stop people from doing such foolish things in daily life. Every tutorial contains at least a nod, and usually a speech that borders on sanctimony, about best security practices. Not that this is not valuable knowledge, of course, but security is not your priority if you're trying to learn how to code a given functionality. Anyways, my site is currently laid out with "pure" css, right now I'm occupying myself by trying to recreate the same layout leaving bootstrap intact. Being that I've done a couple of respectable responsive designs on my own, I'm not a big fan of Bootstrap's complexity, but then, I want a job. Also, I'm told it's very good at automating form validation, which I'm all for avoiding if I can...:> Anyways, again, I appreciate your help AND doubly appreciate your encouragement. Schools and teachers have never worked for me, so learning things is always a struggle, and finding people with the right sort of patience is a struggle of its own. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
