Feb 23 2009
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“ A common issue with the web industry is titles. My business card says “developer”, which is something like wearing a nametag at a convention that says “human.” If I had to pick a new title, I’d go for “front end developer” which is slightly more clarifying and in my opinion sums up a tad better what I’m doing, which is combining HTML, CSS, .NET or PHP, and JavaScript in a big kettle and mixing it around for hours until it resembles the designs the more talented people in the studio create. It’s like being a digital sous chef without the knife wounds and drinking habit. I work in a unique position in the studio, as I’m surrounded by people who more commonly are called “designers” or “developers” (in the back-end development sense), which means they’re much more capable of making a gorgeous website or writing code that does more with a database than play patty-cake, but they’re not so good at mixing the two.
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A Pseudo-Tutorial on Learning JavaScript
(This is one of the best descriptions of this kind of work I’ve seen.)
