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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Tips For A Good Portfolio

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about portfolios - best practices, organization, and how to use what people are looking for to stand out in the right ways. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 3:21 - Include screenshots (or don’t). Often clients can ruin a site after you hand it off. 6:19 - Include list of technologies used 7:25 - Include list of problems solved 7:48 - Use company logos (if allowed) 9:13 - Show mockups on modern laptops/phones 10:04 - Show your work (mockups, sketches, layouts, etc.) 11:39 - Keep it updated 12:10 - You don’t need a million examples — max out somewhere around five. People just need a few quick examples of the type of stuff you work on. 14:11 - What about using side projects and tutorials? 16:28 - Dribbble, Github and Instagram are all valid portfolio options as well — often that is the first place people look. Don’t ignore these. A hot stuff profile on any of these will make you more hireable. Make sure it’s creative and looks nice. Links Wordpress Google Ford Air Canada Dribbble Github Instagram Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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Monday, Monday, Monday,

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Open wide Dev fans.

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Get ready to stuff your face

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with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,

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get workflows,

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break dancing, soft skills, web development,

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the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

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Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloko Torlinsky.

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Oh, welcome to Syntax and this Monday, hasty treat.

0:30.0

We're going to be talking about portfolios, what you should have in your portfolio, what you might not need, how you should have it be styled, how you should have it organized, stuff that people are going to be looking at in your portfolio to make sure that you stand out in the right ways and not the wrong ways when someone is checking out your work for a potential job.

0:50.0

My name is Scott Toulinsky, I'm my full stack developer from Denver, Colorado and with me as always is West Boss.

0:56.0

Hey everybody. Hey Wes.

0:58.0

Are you ready to crush this episode today?

1:01.0

Totally.

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Cool. So before we crush this, let's go ahead and crush some of our bugs with Century.io.

1:07.9

Century.io is a long time sponsor here at syntax and with Century Century you basically drop a couple lines of

1:15.4

configuration in your code and after that it really does an amazing job at

1:19.4

keeping track of all of your errors and bugs that come into your website.

1:23.5

From this it allows you to manage them,

1:25.7

see how many users affected, see what operating system,

1:28.9

what browser, all that amazing stuff.

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You can attach user data so you know exactly which

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