On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Matty Sarro <msarro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I understand and agree completely, and I really appreciate the help. My goal
> isn't so much to keep from re-writing code, but to have a pretty firm
> foundation to stand on before I really begin. I mean, with c++ or c, all I
> needed was the language, and that was pretty much it. I could do everything
> from there. This seems a lot more like its a marriage of a ton of different
> technologies :)
It is. And in my opinion, web developers - specifically
PHP-on-*nix developers - are cream-of-the-crop programmers. Not to
toot my own horn.
We know - and are not afraid to use - the following technologies,
and employ them on a daily basis:
* PHP (and usually at least a working knowledge of C/C++ and
some others)
* HTML
* JavaScript
* AJAX
* Web design
* Human Interface/Graphical User Interface (GUI) layout and design
* SQL (specifically MySQL, but many also know PostgreSQL,
INNODB, Sybase, etc.)
* *nix architecture and path structure (usually many flavors:
RHEL, Debian, BSD, Sun, Mac....)
* Shell scripting (BASh, tcl, Expect, AppleScript, Korn, and so forth)
* HTTP (at least the fundamentals)
* Code portability and platform-independence techniques
* Socket programming
* Code optimization
* Source compilation and module installation
* Server administration
* A variety of control panels (cPanel, Plesk, Helm, Webmin,
blah, blah, blah)
* Security (SSL, encryption, obfuscation, et cetera)
* DNS (at least the fundamentals)
* API programming and creation
* Interfacing with a variety of external technologies (mail,
databases, filesystems, etc.)
* QA and bugtracking
* Non-RAD, non-IDE development
* Command line programming
* .... and more....
* .... and that's ON TOP of what we all know how to do on Windows.
So let this be at least a basic retort to those who don't consider
web development "real programming." Because you'd be surprised how
much I hear, "oh, you work with web stuff, I thought you meant you
were a real programmer."
Well, I'm not. I'm an engineer. At least according to my paycheck. ;-P
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</Dan>
Daniel P. Brown
Senior Unix Geek
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