Comments on: My Report Card… http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:22:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: WildWex http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-7323 WildWex Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:12:45 +0000 http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-7323 Agreed - 'skills' and 'tools' are only part of what's useful in life. Learning to communicate and team with others whom have skills that you don't is what can make all the difference. Decide what you want to do - what motivates, what inspires, and then go for it 100%. Agreed - ’skills’ and ‘tools’ are only part of what’s useful in life. Learning to communicate and team with others whom have skills that you don’t is what can make all the difference. Decide what you want to do - what motivates, what inspires, and then go for it 100%.

]]> By: rv http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-3799 rv Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:53:10 +0000 http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-3799 i am the same with you, i feel my talents are way behind what they actually are and i start comparing my crap to others then i don't feel as bad...except my thing is audio, my site is done like trash but i am starting to get the hang of the web shit alittle... luv that Line Rider/driver game...too much fun! peace... rv i am the same with you, i feel my talents are way behind what they actually are and i start comparing my crap to others then i don’t feel as bad…except my thing is audio, my site is done like trash but i am starting to get the hang of the web shit alittle…
luv that Line Rider/driver game…too much fun!

peace…

rv

]]> By: Jussi Hirvi http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-3055 Jussi Hirvi Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:42:00 +0000 http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-3055 Hi, I came to your blog from a page which was about "Trifecta" css buttons. That looked great. However, in your blog, the yellow "Trifecta" buttons show wrong in my Mozilla 1.2.1 (Mac). The button texts are all on the first button, and the other buttons have no text at all. :-) Also, your blog loads slow, and at least my Mozilla redraws the screen very many times before the page is ready. I notice this especially "well", since my connection is slow. Probably the complex css makes it slow. Best regards from Helsinki, Jussi Hirvi Hi, I came to your blog from a page which was about “Trifecta” css buttons. That looked great. However, in your blog, the yellow “Trifecta” buttons show wrong in my Mozilla 1.2.1 (Mac). The button texts are all on the first button, and the other buttons have no text at all. :-)

Also, your blog loads slow, and at least my Mozilla redraws the screen very many times before the page is ready. I notice this especially “well”, since my connection is slow. Probably the complex css makes it slow.

Best regards from Helsinki,
Jussi Hirvi

]]> By: mark http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-1898 mark Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:27:17 +0000 http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-1898 GO BRONCOS! Oh man, now you're getting me excited. I just bought my ESPN Fantasy Football 2006 mag. the other day. I Can't wait! GO BRONCOS!
Oh man, now you’re getting me excited.
I just bought my ESPN Fantasy Football 2006 mag. the other day.
I Can’t wait!

]]> By: Ben O. http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-1896 Ben O. Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:07:32 +0000 http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-1896 Yo, at least you scored well in the ever popular "Bronco Fan" category. Ben O. Yo, at least you scored well in the ever popular “Bronco Fan” category.

Ben O.

]]> By: Golgotha http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-1883 Golgotha Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:01:03 +0000 http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-1883 Steve, dude, you sound like me at the gym; I always kick myself for not working out one more day a week. <em>"We could learn every popular modern web application and development language and framework… and then we'd be divorced"</em> You wana hear something REAL sick. My wife actually has a picture of me reading a TCP/IP book on the beach in Jamaica. And it was our honeymoon! I'm not that bad anymore, that was when I was young and trying to acquire every certification there was. <em>"I also work with a guy that just makes me feel like a newbie."</em> I've come to realize that not everyone on the team can be Shaq or D. Wade. You have to have a James Posey in there too. Guys that just perform a certain roll, but will never get a shoe contract. Steve, dude, you sound like me at the gym; I always kick myself for not working out one more day a week.

“We could learn every popular modern web application and development language and framework… and then we’d be divorced”

You wana hear something REAL sick. My wife actually has a picture of me reading a TCP/IP book on the beach in Jamaica. And it was our honeymoon! I’m not that bad anymore, that was when I was young and trying to acquire every certification there was.

“I also work with a guy that just makes me feel like a newbie.”

I’ve come to realize that not everyone on the team can be Shaq or D. Wade. You have to have a James Posey in there too. Guys that just perform a certain roll, but will never get a shoe contract.

]]> By: Chris http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-1865 Chris Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:07:29 +0000 http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-1865 This is a good post. I tend to think that being the jack of a number of trades, but not all necessarily, iis the trick. I also work with a guy that just makes me feel like a newbie. I think the trick is to remember what your strengths are and really focus on using those as often as you can. This is a good post. I tend to think that being the jack of a number of trades, but not all necessarily, iis the trick. I also work with a guy that just makes me feel like a newbie. I think the trick is to remember what your strengths are and really focus on using those as often as you can.

]]> By: steve http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-1846 steve Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:23:44 +0000 http://whatasavage.com/2006/07/08/my-report-card/#comment-1846 I totally hear ya here. I am also a jack-of-trades master of none. Frequently when delving past the surface of a subject into something considerable and meaty I find myself groping through acronymns and jargon that I I've never heard before in my LIFE. It took me months to figure out POJO meant plain old Java object... I have given this topic serious CPU cycles... and I think I have calculated something very significant. There is no one solution that fits all problems equally... BUT, because we are humans and can't be masters of all it is FAR better to be masters of a few key skills and put those to work. This is something I've needed to work on because I like to learn about something new after I learn of its existance. But I could kill myself going on this way. It's like at the gym when I see somebody working on a muscle group that I wasn't hitting that particular day, I have to resist the urge to do that muscle group too... and then do another one I saw... it's like I don't want to fall behind anyone else. True, we coudl learn every popular modern web application and development language and framework... and then we'd be divorced and have no viable work for ourselves. How much better it would be to learn a few key skills (HTML/CSS, FLASH, PHP or AJAX/DOM) and then solve problems with those more focused skills. I totally hear ya here. I am also a jack-of-trades master of none. Frequently when delving past the surface of a subject into something considerable and meaty I find myself groping through acronymns and jargon that I I’ve never heard before in my LIFE. It took me months to figure out POJO meant plain old Java object…

I have given this topic serious CPU cycles… and I think I have calculated something very significant. There is no one solution that fits all problems equally… BUT, because we are humans and can’t be masters of all it is FAR better to be masters of a few key skills and put those to work. This is something I’ve needed to work on because I like to learn about something new after I learn of its existance. But I could kill myself going on this way. It’s like at the gym when I see somebody working on a muscle group that I wasn’t hitting that particular day, I have to resist the urge to do that muscle group too… and then do another one I saw… it’s like I don’t want to fall behind anyone else.

True, we coudl learn every popular modern web application and development language and framework… and then we’d be divorced and have no viable work for ourselves. How much better it would be to learn a few key skills (HTML/CSS, FLASH, PHP or AJAX/DOM) and then solve problems with those more focused skills.

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