I honestly thought I had previously written about the 12 Devs of Xmas but apparently not!
The 12 Devs project was a collaboration between Adam Onishi, Clinton Montague and myself and was loosely based on the idea that we’d offer an article or introduction to a new technology or tool each day for the 12 days of Christmas (see what we did there?)
What started off as an innocent tweet back in mid-November about wanting to give back to the web community led to Adam getting in contact – He had been having similar ideas so we decided to collaborate on something.
Clinton works with Adam and they had discussed learning opportunities through 2012 so it seemed a decent fit to get Clinton on board to!
We were soon coming up with a list of 9 other authors (Adam, Clinton & myself all wanted to author an article!) who we thought could get involved and would also bring something interesting to the table.
As with all things of this nature (and bearing in mind we had less than 6 weeks from that first tweet until the first article would go live), we had a few hiccups along the way but in the end, we received and published 12 fantastic articles about 12 really interesting technologies, tools or techniques that should help any web developer or freelancer in 2012.
Here’s a list of the articles: –
A wide variety of topics, as I’m sure you can tell.
It was actually really interesting to work with Adam and Clinton along with all the authors and curate a whole bunch of articles, along with the pitfalls that come with it. Producing the 12Devs took a fair amount of time, many emails, and many many proof-reads of each article to make sure it read correctly.
So just to round off this post, thank you to Adam & Clinton as they done most of the work. Thank you to Alice Reeves who proof-read the articles and made sure they made sense and thank you to Tom Bevan who worked wonders with the design. Without you guys, the 12Devs would have been nothing!
Same time next year?
Previously: Blog Comments
Jack Franklin | Jan 6, 01:22 PM | Permalink
Hey Dude!
Planning to blog about it myself, but wanted to say thanks to you for what was a great read, and thanks so much for letting me contribute! Fingers crossed you might ask again in about 11 months ;)
Jack.
Si Jobling | Jan 6, 01:49 PM | Permalink
I echo what Jack says. Great project with some thoroughly interesting articles – it was an honour to be a part of it.
Hopefully I can contribute again next Christmas.
MrQwest | Jan 6, 01:59 PM | Permalink
Gents, it was truly a pleasure to have you guys on board :) You both produced interesting and inightful articles and I can’t thank you enough for helping out!
Stephen | Jan 6, 11:49 PM | Permalink
It was good fun writing the article, and the site seems to have been really well received. Well done guys, looking forward to the next set!