Tim Almond

I had to do a couple today with Expert Rating for a client, one in ASP.NET/SQL Server and the other in XHTML. I wasn’t so sure on the XHTML one (ASP.NET does most of the HTML generation legwork), but passed it, so I’m feeling a lot more confident about that.

I still believe that these things should be taken with a large bucket of salt. There’s a lot more to developing software than knowing the exact syntax. Frequently, it’s about being resourceful, about knowing where to go to get a particular class of the net, about knowing when to write some reusable code, about working in a team, and about dealing with clients.

One of my favourite programmers was someone who was hired and knew almost nothing about the target platform (ASP.NET/C#/SQL Server). However, he was keen as mustard and had worked on so many other platforms that he could quickly adapt to what we were using.

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