What a web programmer should know.
Tudor Barbu has posted an article about professional web programmers. I agree with him, but I have some comments about his list.
A web programmer that is or has been working as a freelancer should know all those things (even more), but if you work as a team member in a company, the tasks are divided. A person who has knowledge about marketing should take care of the SEO part. When comes to choosing the framework and design patterns, this job has to be done by a software engineer. The speed of development is greatly increased that way and everybody knows that. But there is a category of programmers who work alone (like freelancers, and I’m one of them), or in very small teams, and that category should consider that list as being a must, if they want to develop a web site project by themselves.
As I said in the beginning, that list is ok, but the next elements should be added: a web programmer needs to have knowledge about at least one databas system (MySQL is widely-used) and environment configuration, like Apache or PHP installations, if he works on his own servers.
As a conclusion, Tudor’s post helps a web programmer to auto-evaluate his knowledge, and if he answers affirmative for 80~90% of the questions, he is on the good road to professionalism in web developing.
Update: When using version control (csv, svn) for serious software projects it is mandatory the use of some project management software application, like Trac, Bugzilla, Project.net, dotProject or others.
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