Web development is like Triathlon

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:36 Written by Steve Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:35

If you are a triathlete, a key question to ask yourself early in the training season is this: “What is my weakest sport?” Whether you answer running, biking, or swimming, the experts say the biggest gains can be made by focusing your training efforts there.

In modern web development using web standards you have to ask yourself: “Which web standard is your weakest sport?” There are more than three “sports” of web standards but XML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the Document Object Model (DOM), and Javascript are the big ones. I’ve been passable at XML and CSS for a long time now, and am currently reminding myself just how weak I am in Javascript and the DOM. If those technologies were swimming, I’d be dog paddling in about 4 feet of water with the Salesforce.com AJAX toolkit around my neck.

But I’m pretty sure the future is going to lean heavily on these technologies, and as Roger Johansson says, a web professional can never stop learning.

1 Comment

1. Web Design Zoo   |  Saturday, 30 August 2008 at 5:43 am

   Thanks for this!