Web Developers Are Stupid

Quick summary: Web developers are not stupid.

"We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us." -- Mark Twain

The guys who carved Petra out of a mountain are arguably better at masonry that the guys who build houses by piling bricks on top of each other, but who's better at making houses?

Easy: Majority of the code being written day to day whether it's for the desktop, the web or some other device.<p>Hard: Running a successful business on the easy part.<p>I don't care what sort of software you are writing. I'm a business owner. I'm a web developer but my real business is dealing with people, not machines.

How are we defining "web developer" here?<p>This is from our friends at Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_developer" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_developer</a><p><i>A web developer is a software developer or software engineer who is specifically engaged in the development of World Wide Web applications, or distributed network applications that are run over the HTTP protocol from a web server to a web browser.</i><p>and<p><i>Modern web applications often contain three or more tiers, and depending on the size of the team a developer works on, he or she may specialize in one or more of these tiers - or may take a more interdisciplinary role. For example, in a two person team, one developer may focus on the technologies sent to the client such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and on the server-side frameworks (such as Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, .NET) used to deliver content and scripts to the client. Meanwhile the other developer might focus on the interaction between server-side frameworks, the web server, and a database system. Further, depending on the size of their organization, the aforementioned developers might work closely with a web designer, web producer, project manager, software architect, or database administrator - or they may be responsible for such tasks as web design, project management, and database administration themselves.</i>

There seems to be a bit of a trend for "$groupOfPeople are stupid" posts - presumably it's just an attempt to be inflammatory to get links and visibility.<p>People who post "$gOP are stupid" posts are stupid. Read about it on my blog ...

I am stupid, but that just means you're too smart to do my job.

If I could downvote this, I would.

i agree with the point of the article (i.e., web developers are not stupid)<p>i'd say that the real issue is that there are lots of good web developers, and they are all are under wraps by big companies, doing the things that they like for a big salary. the bad ones need work, so they're very prolific with their presence and marketing.<p>the most visible web developers are stupid.