 i have been noticeably absent from my blog recently but for good reason i was honored when jeff brown a teacher at damascus high school asked if i wanted to speak to the students in his advanced web class i have always been interested in speaking about web development so this seemed like a great first opportunity so basically mr brown has people in the industry come in and speak to his students every friday after looking at the list of other speakers i sure was nervous i mean i go to conferences to see some of these guys speak mr brown has a great program going and i was glad to be a part of it he is one of the few teachers that actually teach about web standards and is a member of the wasp education task force he also gave a presentation at refreshdc about web education the night before my presentation that i unfortunately missed my presentation i decided to focus my presentation on my path through web development some tips to become successful as a front end developer and then how to maintain that success i was pretty nervous and i felt like i raced at times but i think it turned out well mr brown has posted the audio from the presentation on his site view presentation become a productive front end developer continue to be one i would love to hear any feedback on the presentation so let me know what you all think 