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Serious question; all of these tutorial sites.. are any of them a reliable source for web dev or are they just another Smashing Magazine where people get paid t
by mnicole 14y ago
Serious question; all of these tutorial sites.. are any of them a reliable source for web dev or are they just another Smashing Magazine where people get paid to write about things they don't understand?
- stef25 14y agoHonestly I don't think their tutorials are half bad and I enjoy reading Smashing Magazine. Mainly for fluffy stuff. For security & scaling stuff go elsewhere.
- mnicole 14y agoI guess half-bad is subjective. I don't feel like a site that allows such a vast array of decent information vs. downright terrible/wrong is worth my time trying to decipher between the two. I know what I read on A List Apart is quality material from quality writers and people who have spent years and years in the field. Tommy the 17 year old graphic designer that only has mom-and-pop Wordpresses under his belt shouldn't be getting paid to tell thousands of people what's hot right now.
- ineedtosleep 14y agoIMO, Smashing is mostly typical blogspam with very occasional nuggets of good content. If you browse HN and some of the Reddit web/programming subreddits even somewhat frequently, both Smashing and tuts+ are pretty useless.
- mnicole 14y agoYeah, I'm still trying to find the good dev subreddits. You get downvoted in /r/webdesign over some really pathetic crap but it seems to be the most active - any suggestions?