It’s an interesting point is the ability to code in CSS, HTML and JavaScript a skill that is relevant to the User Experience practitioner. Or should that be left to the developers and designers.
Why ask? Well I’m at a crossroads.
You see the nature of the local industry here is such that there just isn’t a constant stream of User Experience work at commercially viable rates. So a I have been supplementing my UX work with a little front end design and development from time to time.
Over the last few years I have really come to question the point of various web industry professional associations.
Yes, it’s all about member benefits, relevancy, and value for money. What I also look for is the chances to network, face to face or online, ways to enhance my professional development (offline and online). Also the validation that you are following industry best practice as well.
Still the most important requirement is a sense of community and belonging.
Where does the the web industry fit in the world. You would think that after 15 plus years that we would have worked that out by now and found our place. But alas this isn’t the case. I still ponder what category should we sit under in a corporate or business structure, let alone what role we should all be.
Something that really frustrates me, is when you go to fill in a survey and they list off the industry types. I’m always very confused where do I put myself, my business. Which one of the categories do I choose.
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Spammers are Getting Tricky
Posted in blogging, musing
If you run a Blog or any publicly facing form on the web then you now take it that spammers are a constant problem.
I have noticed over the years that the quality of the comment spammers has been improving. It is to be expect really, as the tools to combat spammers step up and gets better so the spammers will improve their scripts and tools. Not that I like it.
Over the years you get to see the general type of spam:
Tagged: blogging, comments, duplicate-comments, spam