How much front-end does a back-end dev need to know?
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Clearly, I love back-end more than front-end; making things work properly, efficiently, and securely is more much satisfying to me than making things look good. However, I appreciate a good-looking website (and anything good looking for that matter) by all means. I also find myself going on hours-long tangents when working on solo projects to try and get my front-end looking halfway decent, because I don't want to put ugly crap in my portfolio, plus it just bothers my eyes lol. But front-end really is a beast and it is something that I theoretically could spend all my time on. I have high standards and I don't want to stop until I have a website that looks like http://www.erated.co/ but at the same time, I often feel distracted and not as fulfilled when I am spending hours or even days learning things like advanced CSS3 or Photoshop when I could be (and I feel like I [i]should be[/i] improving my skills with data modeling, LINQ, MVC, and stuff of this nature. Plus, at the end of the day, nobody actually sees a backend so I could spend 6 months on some super cool architecture and if it looks ugly, nobody, including my own family members could care less. That's the kicker lol.
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Clearly, I love back-end more than front-end; making things work properly, efficiently, and securely is more much satisfying to me than making things look good. However, I appreciate a good-looking website (and anything good looking for that matter) by all means. I also find myself going on hours-long tangents when working on solo projects to try and get my front-end looking halfway decent, because I don't want to put ugly crap in my portfolio, plus it just bothers my eyes lol. But front-end really is a beast and it is something that I theoretically could spend all my time on. I have high standards and I don't want to stop until I have a website that looks like http://www.erated.co/ but at the same time, I often feel distracted and not as fulfilled when I am spending hours or even days learning things like advanced CSS3 or Photoshop when I could be (and I feel like I [i]should be[/i] improving my skills with data modeling, LINQ, MVC, and stuff of this nature. Plus, at the end of the day, nobody actually sees a backend so I could spend 6 months on some super cool architecture and if it looks ugly, nobody, including my own family members could care less. That's the kicker lol.
TheOnlyRealTodd wrote:
at the end of the day, nobody actually sees a backend
So write an article about it. If you want impress fellow backend developers, that's the way to go, not with some shiny web page.
TheOnlyRealTodd wrote:
my own family members could care less
They won't care anyway, so why bother.
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Clearly, I love back-end more than front-end; making things work properly, efficiently, and securely is more much satisfying to me than making things look good. However, I appreciate a good-looking website (and anything good looking for that matter) by all means. I also find myself going on hours-long tangents when working on solo projects to try and get my front-end looking halfway decent, because I don't want to put ugly crap in my portfolio, plus it just bothers my eyes lol. But front-end really is a beast and it is something that I theoretically could spend all my time on. I have high standards and I don't want to stop until I have a website that looks like http://www.erated.co/ but at the same time, I often feel distracted and not as fulfilled when I am spending hours or even days learning things like advanced CSS3 or Photoshop when I could be (and I feel like I [i]should be[/i] improving my skills with data modeling, LINQ, MVC, and stuff of this nature. Plus, at the end of the day, nobody actually sees a backend so I could spend 6 months on some super cool architecture and if it looks ugly, nobody, including my own family members could care less. That's the kicker lol.
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Clearly, I love back-end more than front-end; making things work properly, efficiently, and securely is more much satisfying to me than making things look good. However, I appreciate a good-looking website (and anything good looking for that matter) by all means. I also find myself going on hours-long tangents when working on solo projects to try and get my front-end looking halfway decent, because I don't want to put ugly crap in my portfolio, plus it just bothers my eyes lol. But front-end really is a beast and it is something that I theoretically could spend all my time on. I have high standards and I don't want to stop until I have a website that looks like http://www.erated.co/ but at the same time, I often feel distracted and not as fulfilled when I am spending hours or even days learning things like advanced CSS3 or Photoshop when I could be (and I feel like I [i]should be[/i] improving my skills with data modeling, LINQ, MVC, and stuff of this nature. Plus, at the end of the day, nobody actually sees a backend so I could spend 6 months on some super cool architecture and if it looks ugly, nobody, including my own family members could care less. That's the kicker lol.
TheOnlyRealTodd wrote:
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Beta coming May 2015
Errr.... I think you need to get on things...
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheOnlyRealTodd wrote:
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Beta coming May 2015
Errr.... I think you need to get on things...
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
My error! The site is actually: http://www.erated.co/ Pretty close name though lol.
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Clearly, I love back-end more than front-end; making things work properly, efficiently, and securely is more much satisfying to me than making things look good. However, I appreciate a good-looking website (and anything good looking for that matter) by all means. I also find myself going on hours-long tangents when working on solo projects to try and get my front-end looking halfway decent, because I don't want to put ugly crap in my portfolio, plus it just bothers my eyes lol. But front-end really is a beast and it is something that I theoretically could spend all my time on. I have high standards and I don't want to stop until I have a website that looks like http://www.erated.co/ but at the same time, I often feel distracted and not as fulfilled when I am spending hours or even days learning things like advanced CSS3 or Photoshop when I could be (and I feel like I [i]should be[/i] improving my skills with data modeling, LINQ, MVC, and stuff of this nature. Plus, at the end of the day, nobody actually sees a backend so I could spend 6 months on some super cool architecture and if it looks ugly, nobody, including my own family members could care less. That's the kicker lol.
TheOnlyRealTodd wrote:
Clearly, I love back-end more than front-end;
Yeah, I'm an ass man myself.
TheOnlyRealTodd wrote:
I don't want to stop until I have a website that looks like http://www.erated.co/
I literally rolled my eyes when I saw that site. That template is used on about 90% of sites that came out this year. It's everywhere and I'm sick of seeing it, it's just cliché now. If you want a good looking site but don't have the skills to do it then look at template sites like Template Monster (I think), and there are many others. You can simply buy a template off the shelf for not much money then all you need to do is implement it. You'll easily find a template like erated. In fact, you'd probably struggle to find a template that isn't like erated.
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Clearly, I love back-end more than front-end; making things work properly, efficiently, and securely is more much satisfying to me than making things look good. However, I appreciate a good-looking website (and anything good looking for that matter) by all means. I also find myself going on hours-long tangents when working on solo projects to try and get my front-end looking halfway decent, because I don't want to put ugly crap in my portfolio, plus it just bothers my eyes lol. But front-end really is a beast and it is something that I theoretically could spend all my time on. I have high standards and I don't want to stop until I have a website that looks like http://www.erated.co/ but at the same time, I often feel distracted and not as fulfilled when I am spending hours or even days learning things like advanced CSS3 or Photoshop when I could be (and I feel like I [i]should be[/i] improving my skills with data modeling, LINQ, MVC, and stuff of this nature. Plus, at the end of the day, nobody actually sees a backend so I could spend 6 months on some super cool architecture and if it looks ugly, nobody, including my own family members could care less. That's the kicker lol.