Thursday, March 01, 2007

You know you're a web developer when...


  • you can tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica
  • your right-click in Firefox brings up a menu longer than (and wider) than your dual monitor setup
  • 1px of margin can make or break your day
  • you see colour in hex (it's not light grey, it's #BBBBBB!)
  • corollary: you can tell the difference between this and this
  • you check Alexa (or alexaholic) more than your bank balance
  • Red Bull and Full Throttle are two of your basic food groups
  • it drives you crazy that Myspace, craigslist, and plenty of fish are so successful in spite of their ugliness
  • IE6 is like your creepy uncle; you don't like him, you don't want him around, but you still have to deal with him
  • Google is simultaneously the most loved and most hated entity in your Universe
  • corollary: you say "Google" more often than any other word in the English language 
  • you want to get bought by Yahoo! before Google edges you out of your market
  • you know your users by IP address
  • you no longer think TechCrunch is relevant, but would kill to have Arrington write about you
  • ditto for digg
  • you register for every Web 2.0 site and use them for an average of 8 minutes
  • you judge people by their site's pagerank (or number of comments)
  • if someone brings up the topic of PHP/.NET/Ruby they better get comfortable, because they're not going anywhere for awhile
  • you run a hot, up-and-coming startup, but your parents have no idea what you're doing; they tell everyone you work "on computers"
  • you create a blog post entitled "You know you're a web developer when..." instead of working on your hot, up-and-coming startup.

2 Comments:

  • """you create a blog post entitled "You know you're a web developer when..." instead of working on your hot, up-and-coming startup."""

    That's just displacement activity. Good luck with the startup!

    By Steve, at 10:44 AM, March 12, 2007  

  • you run a hot, up-and-coming startup, but your parents have no idea what you're doing; they tell everyone you work "on computers"

    I have to say that's the best line ever, and it's true to boot.

    By Garret, at 2:34 PM, March 15, 2007  

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