DevCon DLSU Nov 2011 talk

1. What It Takes to Be a
Web Developer
Bryan Bibat
freelance software engineer

2. What does it take to be a Web Developer?

3. HTML
&
PHP

4. Thank you for listening!

5. Seriously now.

6. Let's take a brief look on what is a
"Web Developer"

11. And that was just the Ruby stack.

12. Now back to the question

13. What does it take to be a Web Developer?

14. A Passion for Learning

16. me, hard at work c. 2005

18. If you are not passionate about learning,
take a good hard look at your life

19. Not interested in learning new tools and
methodologies every year?
No problem.

21. 1. Legacy Code Maintenance

22. 2. Selling Sub-standard Software

23. 2. Scamming Clients

24. 3. Call Center

25. So if you're not planning to shift courses,
start learning now.

26. Where do I start?

28. Web Designers

29. Enterprise Devs

30. SysAds
DBA

31. Presentation:
what the users see

35. Domain:
what the users want

36. [ insert any programming language here ]

40. Infrastructure:
where it runs

41. Linux Apache MySQL PHP

44. Software Engineering:
how to build it

47. www.infoq.com
news.ycombinator.com

49. Thank you for listening!
Summary:
Web Developers need a strong passion for learning and
competence in the 4 fields related to web development.
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