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Tuesday, 7 May 2002 |
The following is the text from a job vacancy advertisement for a Senior Web Designer/Architect in today’s The Australian national newspaper. I have to ask—do any of these people grasp what it is that a Web Designer or Web (Information) Architect actually does?
Good knowledge of Unix and NT Servers and database design experience using Oracle or SQL Server. Experience in the architectural design of web services projects would be highly regarded. The role also requires sound development and design experience with most of the following: XML, HTML/DHTML, ASP, JavaScript, Visual Basic & COM.
That description seems to be asking for a database manager, server administrator, web services guru, web page coder and web programmer all in one. Not exactly web design, is it?
If employers like this Sydney IT firm want database managers, server administrators, web services gurus, web page coders and web programmers then they should ask for them by name, not pretend that web designers and information architects are what they are after and then contradict themselves in the requirements.
2:39:10 PM 
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Douglas Crockford contends that JavaScript, and by implication its close cousin Flash’s ActionScript, is the most misunderstood programming language ever.
The bozos who renamed LiveScript to JavaScript and thus cause many programmers to assume JavaScript is somehow just a subset of Java have a lot to answer for. JavaScript has nothing to do with Java. Nothing!
Thanks to Branden Hall for the pointer to this great little article.
10:53:10 AM
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Here is a page at the Apple website with some screenshots of new things in the upcoming new version of Mac OS X, codenamed Jaguar, due out late winter our time. Mac OS X is the Unix-based operating system for Macintosh computers.
The underlying technology sounds great, but the new chat program iChat has got to be improved. Those pix and speech bubbles look awful, naff! I am not a fan of the brushed metal look either. Too retro 70s.
Also, I want to see Jaguar include J2EE instead of J2SE so that Macromedia can port ColdFusion to the Mac instead of it being Windows-only. The less need to have more Windows machines in design environments the better in my opinion. Why should we be forced to buy another computer just to run one program?
9:03:32 AM
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I cannot put it off any longer—I have to learn to program properly and in depth.
All the terrific things I want to do with Flash now demand having high-end programming skills, and I can no longer fudge my way through with simple frame-based scripts. I no longer work in a situation where I can hire someone in, and even when I did, freelance programmers who really knew their stuff were few and far between.
Now I need to be even more of a multitasker than I ever was. This is going to be like learning to speak a whole new language, without benefit of being amongst other people who speak it. Good grief. At least there are all these review copies of Flash books here.
8:31:23 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Karl-Peter Gottschalk.
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