Jack of all trades, master of none…

Posted on August 21st, 2006 by caroline.
Categories: Geek talk.

Back in the day, when I was a fresh graduate, applying for web related roles meant that you would fall into one of two distinctive camps. You were either a web designer, or web developer. A web designer role was simple…you knew how to use photoshop, you worked in flash (not necessarily actionscripting), you understood html, and knew how to use a package called dreamweaver. Developers would have to know Java, javascript, and either PHP, ASP or Coldfusion.

How times have changed. No longer are you able to fall in one of these two camps, because all these titles have emerged on recruitment sites:

  • Web developer
  • Back-end developer
  • Front-end developer
  • Ruby on rails developer
  • Web designer/developer
  • New media designer/graphic designer/developer
  • Web master
  • etc etc etc

It would seem that you need to be an uber geek these days to pass off as either a developer or designer. (more…)

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