I'm looking for a tutor not to develop my skills just for the sake of it, but to develop my skills in certain areas of web development so I can build this website I want to build. So not so much as reviewing code or giving directed tasks but guiding me and giving me resources I can use to learn from. The arrangement would be over Skype, maybe once or twice a week for an hour. My timing is flexible.
I have quite a bit of experience with HTML, CSS, and a little of javascript. I've been exposed to Ruby on Rails. I want to learn server-side programming, how to add webcam chatting, for two.
I've got a lot of experience doing web development, but it's mainly concentrated in one particular area - javascript apps that run on a single page and use a streaming connection to get all their data. I've been doing this kind of thing on and off for 10 years now, and the ecosystem has changed massively in the last 2 years, so a lot of problems I'm used to solving by myself (e.g. MVC, unit testing) are now more sensibly solved by some of the newer libraries.
While I have to be competent in server side programming, I find it a bit of a chore, and believe that increasingly for hobbyist work, using other peoples more general servers is the way forward - e.g. I recently wrote a program that can run from a basic http server and uses google doc spreadsheets for all its back end storage and OAuth2 for all the user authentication.
You didn't mention if there's a server side technology you're particularly interested in, since obviously there's a lot of choice in that area.
Anyway, given all that, I think I'm probably the wrong guy for you, but if you don't get any better offers within a week or so, contact me on kybernetikos@gmail.com.
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I'm looking for a tutor not to develop my skills just for the sake of it, but to develop my skills in certain areas of web development so I can build this website I want to build. So not so much as reviewing code or giving directed tasks but guiding me and giving me resources I can use to learn from. The arrangement would be over Skype, maybe once or twice a week for an hour. My timing is flexible.
I have quite a bit of experience with HTML, CSS, and a little of javascript. I've been exposed to Ruby on Rails. I want to learn server-side programming, how to add webcam chatting, for two.
I've got a lot of experience doing web development, but it's mainly concentrated in one particular area - javascript apps that run on a single page and use a streaming connection to get all their data. I've been doing this kind of thing on and off for 10 years now, and the ecosystem has changed massively in the last 2 years, so a lot of problems I'm used to solving by myself (e.g. MVC, unit testing) are now more sensibly solved by some of the newer libraries.
While I have to be competent in server side programming, I find it a bit of a chore, and believe that increasingly for hobbyist work, using other peoples more general servers is the way forward - e.g. I recently wrote a program that can run from a basic http server and uses google doc spreadsheets for all its back end storage and OAuth2 for all the user authentication.
You didn't mention if there's a server side technology you're particularly interested in, since obviously there's a lot of choice in that area.
Anyway, given all that, I think I'm probably the wrong guy for you, but if you don't get any better offers within a week or so, contact me on kybernetikos@gmail.com.