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On 08/10/2007, Darren Beale <bealers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > None of XHTML, CSS or data-driven content are the tools of a
> > "developer".  These things are putting together content, maybe you
> > want a senior (well, probably not senior at all) content manager.
>
> Now who's devalueing developers?

Quite. My job title is "developer", yet I do CSS, XHTML and
data-driven content (with JSP, via an API that a colleague wrote).
He's the backend developer, I'm frontend. I'm still a developer. Oh, I
do JavaScript too, and write the occasional data-munge in Perl.

The fact that I'm a "developer" and he's a "developer" yet we do
vastly different stuff is more due to the size of the organisation not
supporting the existence of specialists, even though we each have our
specialisms.

Tim