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What sort of thing are you looking for? What aspects of web development interest you, how much help do you want? Do you just want someone who can review your code and answer questions, or do you want someone who will give you directed tasks? What do you think the arrangement would look like? Also, roughly where (country/state/time zone) are you based?

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I'm looking for a tutor not to develop my skills just for the sake of it, but to develop my skills in certain areas of web development so I can build this website I want to build. So not so much as reviewing code or giving directed tasks but guiding me and giving me resources I can use to learn from. The arrangement would be over Skype, maybe once or twice a week for an hour. My timing is flexible.

I have quite a bit of experience with HTML, CSS, and a little of javascript. I've been exposed to Ruby on Rails. I want to learn server-side programming, how to add webcam chatting, for two.

I've got a lot of experience doing web development, but it's mainly concentrated in one particular area - javascript apps that run on a single page and use a streaming connection to get all their data. I've been doing this kind of thing on and off for 10 years now, and the ecosystem has changed massively in the last 2 years, so a lot of problems I'm used to solving by myself (e.g. MVC, unit testing) are now more sensibly solved by some of the newer libraries.

While I have to be competent in server side programming, I find it a bit of a chore, and believe that increasingly for hobbyist work, using other peoples more general servers is the way forward - e.g. I recently wrote a program that can run from a basic http server and uses google doc spreadsheets for all its back end storage and OAuth2 for all the user authentication.

You didn't mention if there's a server side technology you're particularly interested in, since obviously there's a lot of choice in that area.

Anyway, given all that, I think I'm probably the wrong guy for you, but if you don't get any better offers within a week or so, contact me on kybernetikos@gmail.com.

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