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Web Developers Deserve Respect

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Daniel Andrlik
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Daniel Andrlik lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia. By day he manages product teams. The rest of the time he is a podcast host and producer, writer of speculative fiction, a rabid reader, and a programmer.

Jeremy Zawodny has a couple great articles on his blog about how web developers do not receive the respect they deserve among software engineers. The two posts are a year apart which he references to illustrate how people still haven’t changed their attitudes, which is surprising considering how important programming for the web has become.

What does it mean for Web 2.0 when programmers don’t respect the skills of the people bringing it about?

Read the early article here, and the most recent post here.

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