I’m pleased to announced that I’ve recently acquired the domain for arealdeveloper.com. Details on its content and my future plans for that domain will be revealed later. Possibly quite a bit later. I’ve always thought it was a great domain name so you have no idea how happy I am that I’ve now got it. 🙂
There are too many people running around, and unfortunately I tend to encounter them in the wild, that call themselves a developer, web developer, software developer, etc. and yet have no clue at all about it, lack basic understanding of the tools of the trade, or simply adopted the label as a means to increase their perceived value.
The domain and the content I have in mind for it will attempt to break (or shatter) one of the problems that the software development industry is seeing with increasing frequency, while also attempting to teach a thing or two to those who seriously want to become ace developers in their field.
Most of you KNOW that I am NOT a “web developer”. I am, however, setting up a large scale SaaS project that happens to be web-based (what a surprise!). I frequently encounter people who say they are web developers and yet have never heard of basic things like XDebug, Profiling with XHProf, SASS, LESS, versioning, virtualization and local development servers, etc.
So what happens when “arealdeveloper” enters the world of web development? You start looking for the right tools, buying the right hardware and software, invest some time in learning how to make best use of them, and before you know it you’re doing a presentation at the Easy Bay WordPress Meetup in Oakland, CA about developer tools.
Download link for the entire set of 69 slides in PDF format (3.6MB).
Let us know what YOU think!