Matt was a valued member of the Heart Internet's Front End Development Team. When he's not saving the world from bad code, he can be found in the nearest pub.
As a developer who was promoted from the Heart Internet support team, I still maintain a social relationship with many of the people I used to work with, and as time goes on I realise that they have absolutely no idea what we do beyond “making the website”. This episode of Dev Tales gives you an insight into my typical day as a developer, and hopefully give you an idea of the magic that we perform.
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In the world of development and technology things can get incredibly complex. Indeed from the casual onlookers perspective it could almost be regarded as mystical. Although a lot of advanced technology has made its way into the consumer market, a lot of the users of said technologies are completely oblivious to how they work. I recently introduced my friend to Dropbox so that he could better organise his life and he promptly described the whole thing as “witchcraft and sorcery”.
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For some people, writing line upon line of complex and intricate code causes a wave of nausea to come over them. For others, myself included, it induces a feeling of joy bordering on masochistic in nature. With that said, not everyone wants to do it for a living – some individuals prefer to just tinker and dabble, creating the occasional bit of functioning code to make their lives simpler. I was one of those people until the beginning of this year, when I decided I wanted to make a full-time career out of it.
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