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    #31
    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    What's your speciality, NF?
    King nerd

    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Jack of all trades

    More seriously... these days I concentrate on W3C-standards-compliant web development with due attention to considerations of usability, accessibility, and browser compatibility (i.e I know all the IE bugs and how to fix them).

    Client-side: (X)HTML, CSS, REST, JS, including all the Ajaxy stuff, which I was doing on intranet apps back in 2000, before it had been invented Bit of a thing for URL design at the moment...

    Server: over the years I've used Netscape's SSJS (anybody remember that?), Classic ASP, a bit of ASP.NET (though not for several years), a bit of Java Servlet API/JSP (again, not recently), and currently working with Django and Python, although I generally prefer to find a way of using XSLT given half a chance

    Oh, and the kind of RDBMS skills that web developers tend to pick up - I'm no database specialist, but I can do a left inner join when I have to, mainly with SQL Server (though not recently) and mySQL (very recently).

    Various other things which I can't remember...

    Going back into the dim and distant past I've worked as a real-time systems software engineer (assembler and Forth), a games programmer (assembler except when I implemented Forth in assembler for the Atari ST and then did the project in that), and during a rather strange hiatus in my IT career, pub and bar management.

    Oh, and I used to have a PDP-11/34A (with two RK-05 disc drives) in my bedroom - just because it was there, really...
    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Oops, forgot PHP and the Symfony framework

    And a good understanding of HTTP, which is the one standard that the majority of web developers seem to either completely forget about, or have only the vaguest understanding of... mind, most of them don't understand the eight fallacies of distributed computing, either
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      #32
      Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
      King nerd


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        #33
        Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
        Oops, forgot PHP
        PHP can be handy when the market gets really bad - I've filled in a couple of six monthers with it. But the rates are noddy, to reflect what many see as a noddy language (which in some respects it is).
        Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ here

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          #34
          Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
          King nerd


          Once again DS hits the nail on the head.

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            #35
            I'm just getting involved with ATG based website development....apparently, I'm privilaged.

            Just a contract to me....

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              #36
              Originally posted by Hiram King Of Tyre View Post
              I'm just getting involved with ATG based website development....apparently, I'm privilaged.

              Just a contract to me....
              Are the rates good in ATG?

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                #37
                Originally posted by Hiram King Of Tyre View Post
                I'm just getting involved with ATG based website development....apparently, I'm privilaged.

                Just a contract to me....
                Antiques Trade Gazette?

                Ah, probably this lot

                I don't think much of their URLs - they give the impression of having no clue about HTTP, or the nature and purpose of the hyperlink

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                  #38
                  That's the lot yes....

                  I know nuffin but I'm told it's worth having on your CV

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