That's the lot yes....
I know nuffin but I'm told it's worth having on your CV
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Originally posted by Hiram King Of Tyre View PostI'm just getting involved with ATG based website development....apparently, I'm privilaged.
Just a contract to me....
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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I'm just getting involved with ATG based website development....apparently, I'm privilaged.
Just a contract to me....
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostWhat's your speciality, NF?
Originally posted by NickFitz View PostJack 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 PostOops, 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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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, eitherLast edited by NickFitz; 8 May 2008, 18:00.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostWhat's your speciality, NF?
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...
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostNot in my case - the reason I'm leaving is that the client, having been interviewing candidates almost daily since last December, has only now managed to find enough thoroughly competent people to complete the permy team. The best are still in demand, and therefore hard to find
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Originally posted by Hiram King Of Tyre View PostHas the market taken a turn for the worse?
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Originally posted by Hiram King Of Tyre View PostHas the market taken a turn for the worse?
http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d...S.d/index.html
But not total doom.
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Originally posted by DiscoStu View PostHope not, I think I may be gig-hunting in 6 weeks...
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