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The reluctant web developer

Posted on April 26, 2005 by

When you are known as the “techie guy” and you have little patience for complaining, you end up getting volunteered to do stuff that you really aren’t qualified for. Case-in-point, the web-based community calendar I am developing for NGOs at the United Nations. Not something I would have ever imagined coming across my desk, and yet here I am building it.
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Oh I know few things, from basic HTML, CSS, and graphic editing to Zope and Plone CMS management. But these are just things I have picked up along the way.

Having a little knowledge leads folks, from NGO colleagues to my dad, asking me about building a “simple website” for hosting files or a wiki or a photo gallery. It’s all simple enough, until you actually start doing it.

Being the guy who knows something about web development is like being the guy with the pick-up truck. Suddenly friends and friends-of-friends are calling you and asking for help with some “little job” that ends up eating your whole weekend.

So, somewhat reluctantly, I am trying to get some skills under my belt — CMS development and management, member roles and security settings, custom style sheets and modules, and basic web design. I am going to get asked anyway, so I might as well know a few things.

I don’t think I would ever like to be the full-time web development guy. I like CONTENT too much to get wrapped up in the code. I’m not really logical or mathematical enough to ever master a programming language like python or javascript. But nowadays, being the guy who can throw online a community blog and a document server in a day can make you plenty popular.

Anyway, it’s better than owning a truck.

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