Last week, popular web development website A List Apart (ALA) released the results of it’s 2007 Web Design Survey. I’ve spent the last few days reading over the 82 page document and found a good amount of the results interesting.
- Over 80% of the respondents were White Males
- 48% came from the USA
- When asked if they were excited by their field, 43.6% said Fequently, 35% said Very Frequently, meaning 78.6% like what they do most of the time.
- About 20% want to start their own business as their next move.
- Of that 20%, 89.9% were men.
- 47.9% are in the salary range of $20,000 - $80,000, where 52.3% have been in the industry 5 years or less.
- 1/2 of the people in my age group (21-24) make less than $20,000. Something to consider is most people who graduate college are 21 or 22.
- ALA found that Job Satisfaction increases with age. I think this is because when starting out, (for me anyway), you’re not doing the cool and exciting stuff you’d like to. My internships consisted mostly of fixing HTML, and not any real development.
- Of those who saw an age bias, Under 21 and 21-24 combined made up for 70.2% of the respondents.
- 22% of female respondents saw gender bias, where only 1.5% of male respondents did. (NOTE- that is 22% of the females, which made up ~16% and 1.5% of the males, which made up ~84%).
What was most surprising to me was how big the gap between male and female respondents is. I knew the computing field is male dominated, but I didn’t think it was that one sided. This survey also gave me a pretty good idea of what I can expect as a salary once I get out of Grad School. You can download and review the results here, and if you are a web professional, I strongly recommend it. It’s extremely informative.
posted on October 23rd, 2007 in Computer Stuff, Design, Links, News, Thoughts, Websites| No Comments »
Yeah. The game tag. Because kids were getting hurt and being ‘forced to play against their will.’ Here is an idea- Don’t run if you don’t want to play. I don’t know about you, but I think kids are supposed to get hurt. It’s in the job description for being a kid. If schools keep doing this and coddling kids, over-protecting them, I’d imagine it’s not good for their development. It’s not challenging kids to deal with anything. Maybe this isn’t a big deal, but a lot of this has been happening in other schools, banning certain books or other games, etc. Just seems like bad news to me.
posted on August 30th, 2007 in Links, Manifesto, News| No Comments »
I would have liked to see reasons why people picked what they did. If I had to guess, it would be price of Blu-Ray players over HD-DVD players. What would you choose and why?
posted on August 27th, 2007 in Links, Thoughts| No Comments »
With a new academic year starting (for some of us as soon as tomorrow), Wired has released some simple rules to follow while facebooking. Facebook is one of my favorite websites because of it’s great functionality and expandability, but one should follow a few rules while using it. Here are a couple of my favorites:
- One should not friend another whom they have no association or connection with whatsoever. Doing so makes you what I like to call a ‘creeper’.
- Beware of potential employers browsing facebook photos. That body shot or keg stand picture might not encourage hiring.
- One’s profile should not be overloaded with unnecessary applications (such as Superpoke, Food Fight, ect.), Facebook is not meant to be like myspace. (emphasis added)
- Being part of too many Facebook groups devalues the ones you truly care about, try to stick to a select few (under 25?) -I keep mine under 15-.
There is one I disagree with though: One’s popularity is based on the number of “Happy Birthday!!!!!” wallposts they receive. Do not forget to leave one on good friends’ walls on their special day. My personal opinion is that if they are a good friend, you could give them a call. If they aren’t you probably didn’t even know it was their birthday to begin with.
I think the most important one is the one about employment. Employers are looking at MySpace and Facebook to get a ‘better look’ at their applicants, so be careful of what you put up, especially if you are, say, under 21.
posted on August 26th, 2007 in Links| No Comments »
- Death By Veganism
- A New York Times article by Nina Planck on the dangers of giving your baby/infant a vegan diet.
I don’t usually post links in the fashion (or any fashion really) here, but this is a topic that has on multiple occasions sparked serious discussion on this blog. I felt it was good enough to post this. Nina, a former vegan, felt it was irresponsible for vegan parents to give their newborn a vegan diet because the diet lacks essential nutrients the baby needs to grow. It even resulted in the recent death of an infant, the third in four years.
I think the link is a worthwhile read for anyone, vegan or not, because it provides some nice insight from someone who was a vegan herself.
posted on June 16th, 2007 in Links, Manifesto, Thoughts|
