Interview with Franklim De Sousa April 2008
You're working as a professional now. What skills do you use?
Basic html, actionscript 2/3, perl, c/s languages, php, template skills, serverside programming. You need loads of team skills, that's a major thing. We all work in the same room. If you're a programmer, you find the interface designer always wants to be right, even when you don't agree. You need patience to deal with tricky situations - learn how to keep your mouth shut sometimes and always be professional - never lose your temper, don't argue, be constructive in what you say, deal with it all in a good manner, be open to change...
The atmosphere is good until it gets to crunch time, then everyone is stressed. We all have the same goal.
If you have a deadline, don't make anything new! That's stupid. But if you've spent too much time on it already you have to change tactics - it's a double-edged sword.
Working in a small company, we have more opportunities to be social. We have lunch together and chat every Thursday; we are different cultures and age-groups.
I wish I'd learned proper XHTML and CSS at uni. It would have been really useful to have done more hardcore computing maths - truth tables, decision trees, binary stuff as well as calculus and algebra. |
