Tagged “roles”
SaaS startups will have to care about productivity again, by DHH
Getting to profitability is no longer a distant, post-IPO nice-to-have, but a short-term necessity for survival. But how to do that without cutting off the legs of the product team? By using better tools and techniques, that's how.
DHH of 37 Signals and Basecamp offers three pieces of advice for productivity and profitability.
1: Unless market conditions demand otherwise, delay native app development for as long as possible.
2: Hire full-stack developers, and don't let them split the frontend and backend into separate jurisdictions.
3: Hire designers who work natively with the web.
Front-of-the-front-end and back-of-the-front-end web development (by Brad Frost)
The Great Divide between so-called front-end developers is real! Here, Brad Frost proposes some modern role definitions.
A front-of-the-front-end developer is a web developer who specializes in writing HTML, CSS, and presentational JavaScript code.
A back-of-the-front-end developer is a web developer who specializes in writing JavaScript code necessary to make a web application function properly.
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