616 karma · joined December 28, 2011
Since you have awards which is worth bragging to get you want you need.
1. Create open source project which can be simple library and ask for donation.
2. Teach people programming.
3. Tell them how you are able to achieve this.
4. Best is try to be intern in some webshop, only option is send a note in mailing list.
Main issue you might face is with banks.
Agreed, but joining hands with someone who fight against linux(ubuntu is linux) for patents doesn't make sense.
EDIT: Using pip can simply solve py3 and py2 specific features.
As a result of this I get excited to find some thing interesting out of the above mentioned and start working on my own ideas.
Simple keep following and get updates about people whom consider smart and get to know what they are upto, this pushes you.
How did I learn?
I started with PHP first, writing small scripts and spending time IRC and reading official docs. I attended PHP conference which had prominent minds like creator framwework, Drupal Users etc ...
I created Mini ERP for schools as startup and never launched it.
Then I tried Ruby on Rails and cloned a open source project and modified the source code and fixed bugs (never bothered to submit).
Then I tried Django but wasn't impressed, then I tried Flask and I liked it very much and tried Pylons. Now I am settled with Flask and hacking brubeck occasionally.
Sites I have built: 1. www.sachintweets.in 2. www.iplsaga.in 2. www.pylive.codespeaks.in(currently down)
Web Apps: 1. Gummi - multi user chat room with Flask + Redis 2. Blaze - Static file generator
Source code: https://github.com/kracekumar
Takeaway 1. Choose a language and start researching on available web frameworks 2. Attend Conferences. 3. Follow hackers in twitters 4. Subscribe to subreddit 5. Join Mailing list. 6. Use Github and bitbucket.
By creating stuffs which interests you, will answer the question.