Comments on: We Need to Get Professional http://manwithnoblog.com/2007/12/29/we-need-to-get-professional/ Gary Barber rants on user experience, and the controlled chaos of the Web Industry Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:19:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Heilmann http://manwithnoblog.com/2007/12/29/we-need-to-get-professional/comment-page-1/#comment-4898 Chris Heilmann Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:24:04 +0000 http://manwithnoblog.com/2007/12/29/we-need-to-get-professional/#comment-4898 This is a terribly tricky subject. I'd love to be involved more with the W3C but as an employee of a large internet company that cannot subscribe to all the openness the W3C dictates I cannot be in my work time. However, I don't really think that the W3C is the end-all of this discussion. Professionality is more than that and you can drive it without being a W3C member or be part of driving the standards. It is much more important to standardize the training and maintain the quality of developers in your company and reach the ones to come in the future. I am lucky insofar that my company paid me a course to become an accredited trainer and in the next year I will get the chance to reach a lot more university students to get them onto the right path before they get drowned in day to day work in agencies where delivery dates and budget are more important than quality. There is a lot to come in the upcoming year, and I am happy to say that Opera is one of the companies that is spending a lot of time and effort to provide top-notch starter material in Q1 and Q2. I've been commissioned to write a lot of articles and so are a lot of people in my team. Let's circumvent the politics and big decisions and change what we can reach. Then we publish this to the world. I am also happy to be able to say that I can release all I write as Creative Commons :) This is a terribly tricky subject. I’d love to be involved more with the W3C but as an employee of a large internet company that cannot subscribe to all the openness the W3C dictates I cannot be in my work time.

However, I don’t really think that the W3C is the end-all of this discussion. Professionality is more than that and you can drive it without being a W3C member or be part of driving the standards. It is much more important to standardize the training and maintain the quality of developers in your company and reach the ones to come in the future. I am lucky insofar that my company paid me a course to become an accredited trainer and in the next year I will get the chance to reach a lot more university students to get them onto the right path before they get drowned in day to day work in agencies where delivery dates and budget are more important than quality.

There is a lot to come in the upcoming year, and I am happy to say that Opera is one of the companies that is spending a lot of time and effort to provide top-notch starter material in Q1 and Q2. I’ve been commissioned to write a lot of articles and so are a lot of people in my team.

Let’s circumvent the politics and big decisions and change what we can reach. Then we publish this to the world. I am also happy to be able to say that I can release all I write as Creative Commons :)

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