Comments on: Web Developers

By: Harmanas Chopra

Harmanas Chopra — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:18:52 +0000

Let’s just leave it this: a geek is defined by his/her work be it a program, a web application, or a phenomenal xbox live rank. It’s all relativity. One can’t simply make broad judgments about a group of individuals.

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:55:54 +0000

I totally disagree that programmers don’t create systems. This is really unfair, I have also heard that from many guys. I am working as web developer for last two years and I can say proudly that I have developed systems.

And as said by André Pena, whole development is shifting to web, so those guy will learn soon that what worth web development owns. I have worked as a software developer in UK based business automation firm. They have there two main products. Both products have web and desktop versions. Believe me that they stopped working on desktop application, and send those guys to work with us on web versions.

By: AndrÃƒÂ© Pena

AndrÃƒÂ© Pena — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:05:15 +0000

The entire development is migrating to web. So how to say that it deserves less credit? And if does, who are the real developers? C++/Assembly programmer? Oh god..

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:32:48 +0000

I agree, my job sees me developing pure C++ doing and I can be doing very complicated algorithms at times.

However I develop web pages in my spare time and find it just as taxing, if not more so as it taxes different skills, such as presentation, user interfaces etc.

It also tackles different optimization problems.

All in all if someone is developing something then it’s the end result you should look at not how they got there!

By: Lacey

Lacey — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:13:01 +0000

I think the disconnect might be between people who think web developers only use HTML (or mark-up languages in general) versus using “real” programming languages, like Perl or PHP. “Web Developer” ends up being a very broad category. Some people do develop applications on the web, which is a very tricky job because the lack of standards complicates things. On the other hand, “real programmers” have a disdainful attitude towards web folk, because for the most part you’re looking at the sort of people who Legoed something together in Dreamweaver (or, shudder, FrontPage), entirely in the WYSIWYG editor, and call themselves developers.

Of course, even the WYSIWYG folks have to think of organization of data, user interfaces, etc, and that can get quite complicated as well.

Going entirely in the opposite direction, I’d say most C++ game programmer types are just as guilty of being Lego builders. Show me one coder in the past two decades who built all their libraries from scratch. Like my CS prof used to say, programmers are inherently lazy, and will reuse and recycle whatever the can to get out of doing redundant work.

By: Rihards Steinbergs

Rihards Steinbergs — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:14:58 +0000

Well it really depends on your definition of web developer. I am one myself, and there are days when I do a lot of lego-assembling and then there are days when I pretty much only code new things.

There are of course those kind of people who only do markup, and well those shouldn’t really be called web developers anyway. More like webmasters, or webpage makers/coders.

A web developer is much more than just lego-assembling. It’s developing a project from start to end, and doing all the things that are required. Be it lego-assembling, or doing things from scratch and innovating.

As for “C++ video game programmers”, well there are only so many ways that you can draw a polygon, so in a way all they do is just assemble the needed (lego) blocks.