Comments on: Why Your Company Needs A Front End Developer

By: Mike Wilcox

Mike Wilcox — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:04:56 +0000

So cynical Suki. The idea is to get eyes other than yours on the app. Developers don’t all use apps the same way. And if you don’t like that idea, perhaps there is someone in your office who is not a developer.

And I’ve never built a very basic site.

By: Suki

Suki — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:59:10 +0000

“Even focus groups can be recreated by the resourceful developer by simply having people around the office use the interface while he watches.” That only applies if you are creating VERY basic sites and your target user is another developer. And I think you are referring to usability tests … not focus groups.

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By: dfk

dfk — Sat, 14 May 2011 18:51:14 +0000

@Mike – I’ve just stumbled onto this article. Thank you for taking the time to write and post this – clear and succinct.

By: Mike Wilcox

Mike Wilcox — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:47:05 +0000

@Michael, it’s that very opinion that front end developers battle against their entire careers. But it’s not so much the developers I’m defending as much as the quality of the web itself. When working on the area that is not of your expertise, there is an overwhelming desire to make it “good enough”.

If I were to take on backend duties, I would just dump the data in the DB. I wouldn’t worry about indexing or scalability, because it would be “good enough”. Because after all – what’s so hard about reading and writing data?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:29:03 +0000

You seem to imply that frontend development is hard. Plenty of folks can effectively do frontend while handling the other “ends”, even if it isn’t their primary focus.

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