Must-See-Videos: Nate Koechley on Professional Front-End engineering
I’ve just finished watching Nate Koechley’s talk on professional Front-End Engineering on the YDN Theater:
You can download the m4v for your ipod and read the transcription on Eric Miraglia’s blog.
I’ve seen Nate give this talk before in a shorter version at @media in London, but this version has the whole story from what frontend engineering is, over technologies and methodologies to use and avoid up to a very compelling argument why it all matters.
So if you can spare an hour and a half (or chunk it over two workout sessions in the gym like I did) go and watch this video before you start flaming on mailing lists, forums or flat out tell people that it doesn’t matter when something is incomprehensible or works by magic – as long as it works.
Thanks Nate for a great encapsulation of the whole frontend matter in one video.
Tags: development, f2e, frontend, natekoechley, professionalism, standards
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:20 pm
It’s tough to be a frontend engineer – mm propably! But if you’re like me working in a small company doing all development stuff – xhtml, css, javascript, server coding, sql and database stuff – then there’s a lot of stuff to master. But the browsers are the problems, if they could behave somewhat the same it would be a lot easier. Thank god for server languages – only one platform to compile in!