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Interview With Jeffrey Way
If you’ve been reading this site for awhile, then you know who Jeffrey Way is. He’s the man, the myth and the legend behind the stellar growth of Nettuts+ and an influential voice in the web development community. And now he’s tackling online education full steam via Tuts+.
We wanted to catchup with Jeffrey to see how his next great adventure is going. Let’s check it out.
Q Readers want to know, “Where in the world is Jeffrey Way?”
In the last year, much of my energy has been put into the Tuts+ Premium program, and I’m really proud of what we’ve achieved.
I’m still around! I simply decided to adjust my priorities a bit. After building up and maintaining Nettuts+ for five years, I realized that Id reached the limits of what I was capable of learning in that job. Staying anywhere too long is rarely a good thing, so I chose to step down as editor, and instead focus my attention on other projects.
In the last year, much of my energy has been put into the Tuts+ Premium program, and I’m really proud of what we’ve achieved. Though it’s been tough, we’re now at a point where we’re publishing well over 25 new courses every single month. We’ve released courses on everything from modern WordPress development, to Yeoman, to Ember, to Laravel testing. As I sometimes tease: if you enjoy Dreamweaver, then Lynda.com is a great choice. Otherwise, to instead learn the technologies that working pros use every day, Tuts+ Premium is a really fantastic resource. :)
Q You have one of the biggest fan bases, built on your stellar work on Nettuts+. What prompted the change to Tuts+?
Like I said above, mostly it came down to a personal decision. Life is too short to not experiment with new ideas and roles. So, having managed the site for over five years, the time was right to move on. You have to be careful about falling into a rut, sometimes.
Also, with you and Andrew at the helm, I felt that the site was in perfect hands to reach the next level.