Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code

Re:Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code by TheOtherHobbes on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:18PM (#10570690)

Title inflation lowers the perceived value of professional development work. It goes from "I don't understand what you're doing, but it looks hard" to "My ten year old nephew set up a WordPress site, so why should I pay you $150k a year to build the CRUD backend for my brilliant startup idea?"

All professions that don't have gatekeepers, certification, and strong professional associations suffer from declining salaries.

The difference between good and bad web dev is the difference between a site that scales, is maintainable, secure, and reliable, and looks nice, as opposed to a WP site that does none of the above. (But looks nice - maybe.)

I've talked to "designers" who say things like "I don't know if we can do that - I leave all those details to my technical people."

It turns out all the "designer" did was pick a font and a colour scheme and draw a few wireframes. And they got the job because they knew someone on the board.

Meanwhile the "technical people" have done all the real work - and could probably make a site look just as good if they'd been asked to.

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Re:Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code by nofearinc on Sunday November 15, 2015 @07:41PM (#10571958)

Agreed with all of the above. I'm even surprised that more of the "hardcore devs" didn't get annoyed by WordPress crossing the 25% web market share a week ago. I can see how more and more large businesses turn to WordPress to cut license costs, decrease salaries, reduce development time and invest more in marketing/advertisement instead.

That comment is also for everyone who mentioned that the post reflects only to the state of a single business instead of an entire community, ecosystem and the business of web development as a whole.

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