Week 4, day 4
Work continued on our bookmark manager website projects today. I had hoped to make a really slick front-end for it but that plan met with a lot of obstacles, first and foremost my lack of experience in html and CSS. But that's not a problem, it's good I now know that's something I want and need to work on.
We're made aware of the skills that employers look for and one thing that has come up a lot recently is our attitude toward work, and more importantly problems. Keeping a cool head and remaining effective when the shit is hitting the fan and everything is going wrong is essential, I think I tick those boxes but again, that's something I can improve.
The key to improving your design skills is to accept your errors cheerfully, remain detached from past design decisions, and refactor mercilessly.
- Sandi Metz - Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR).