Comments on: IA’s should program and build cool shit.

By: Roho

Roho — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:02:04 +0000

This is just the thing that the group of developers I work with in e-business department at an insurancy company aer saying over and over again. The lack of technical understanding of the people who try to tell us what to build is incredible.
When they show again and again that they do not even understand the basics of the web (differences between clientside and serverside) then we always have a hard time explaining why things that they propose just will not work. After we have finished our explanation they ask:
But can’t you still make it work like that?
If they only knew how to program ‘Hello world’then things would be already so much better.

By: Chris McEvoy

Chris McEvoy — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:57:45 +0000

All you IA’s out there should adopt a programmer and indulge in some skills exchange. You teach them about IA and they can teach you how to write code.

I am a programmer who has learnt about IA and these two areas have a lot to learn from each other.

PS. Don’t bother with the “Learn Marathon in 21 Days” books, they are a waste of time. Learn by doing it with someone who can help you get going.

By: Donna Maurer

Donna Maurer — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:03:22 +0000

I’m with you - I’m sick of not being able to do stuff. I swing between thinking that I should learn to program, and thinking I should just stick with being a good designer and knowing loads and loads of good stuff about people and not having to play catch up with technology all the time…

By: Victor

Victor — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:50:49 +0000

Amen brother. If you learn some shortcuts along the way please let us know.

On my wishlist is 1) a simple way to grab information from an API and display it on a webpage, and 2) a simple way to set up a faceted taxonomy without using a database.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:33:00 +0000

I’ve procrastinaite with this decision since i’ve take it 6 months ago.
What langages to learn? In wich way? I’m working with a gang of darn good programmers and the idea of beeing a newbie in such a bunch is intimidating.

I also hesitate between two options: learn this stuff and diversify my knowledge or become more proficient in my own field. More diversity is less focus; it also means more things to keep up-to-date.

I don’t know.