Are you a web programmer?
So, I keep stealing things for content, but they’re all things that apply, and they have credit! At any rate, I’ll say what I came to say. I ran across DeviantArt’s Job offers and found one for a “Legendary Web Programmer!” The points were so well-written I decided it could be something I try to attain – not only the points about the “spiritual” side of programming, but also dealing with load balancing and multiple languages.(Begin DeviantArt Text)You have proven experience of writing code professionally for atleast five years, and you understand the technologies that drivetoday’s web. You can architect, design, and work with a userexperience that hinges upon mastery of both browser and server sidetechnologies. And you love it.You are capable of advanced programming:* Iterative and event-driven systems* Asynchronous and parallel programming models* You have an eye for efficiency, where its important* You believe that simplicity is a virtue* You can take existing complex code and refactor it down to asimple, powerful, core essence* You can write good code in whatever language you’re asked to code inServer* PHP experience (a definite plus but not necessary)* Familiarity with a server side enviornment that includes manyclusters of servers providing distributed data storage, and processing* Distributed databases: Key-Value pairs, and Relational (MySQL)* General awareness of the design issues that present themselves whensolutions must be able to scale with traffic growth across many serversBrowser* Knowledge of JavaScript on the level of using it as an applicationframework* DOM and Style manipulation* Dynamic page generation* Background data fetches (XMLHTTP, IFRAME, etc.)Bonus Points for:* CSS* Photoshop (or similar)* UI Design* Firefox extentions (or other browsers)You enjoy taking the initiative on projects and working within tightdeadlines, sharing ideas and being involved in the design process aswell as the implementation.You don’t find ‘just solving the problem’ a challenge, but rathersolving the problem in an elegant and scalable way as the realchallenge.(End DeviantArt Text)So, there you have it. A list I’d like to attain at some point – even the Firefox extension one. Oh, what a wonderful world the Internet is!