Skills of a successful back-end web developer
By Turki Aljrees at 31/03/2014
This
developer is focused on managing the interchange of data between the
application and the browser. This developer focuses on the server-side of
programming for the web, yet also understands the programming languages which
control the display of content in the browser:
Back end developer
- Developed with at least one CMS framework or web application
framework.
- Employed a framework or
extended an existing CMS with custom coding.
- Knowledgeable about accessibility or security compliance relevant in
client’s sector and geographic location.
- Understands
the underlying systems on which web applications are developed.
- Understands the technologies
and languages which power the web such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Understands key server-side web development concepts
such as:
- Integrating data or user accounts between
multiple systems for
a client.
- Integrating
multiple databases and/or database types into one system.
- Managing a
hosting environment,
and has administered databases.
- Implementing or working
with content approval and staging workflows.
- Migrating data, scripting migration of
data.
- Implementing,
managing or using a backup system and disaster recovery.
- Securing data or access to applications
with multiple user levels, or has the ability to customize based on user
levels.
- Outputting data
in multiple document formats.
- Creating multilingual websites or applications.
- Creating and implementing database schemas that represent and support
business processes.
- Ensuring the quality of applications through unit testing.
Domain specific knowledge or transferable skills
Knowledge of a programming language for a framework such as PHP, Python, Perl, .NET, Ruby, Java, or other language.- Application and scripting development best practices, architecture, scalability, etc.
- Can execute tasks with both procedural and OOP development techniques.
- Familiarity with the syntax and control structures of the given language.
- Best practices for efficient and easier to maintain code.
- Best practices for securing web applications.
- Inserting, querying and managing data stored in databases or files.
- The features and syntax of PHP datatypes, variables, constants and operators.
- Knowledge of syntax of and how to employ expressions and functions.
- Knowledge of how to apply control structures of PHP such as expressions, loops, conditional statements, and switch statements.
- Session handling, PHP Configuration.
- Familiarity of HTML syntax for multiple specifications, including HTML 5.
- Knowledge of the semantic meaning of most HTML elements.
- Familiarity with the semantic markup for display of lists, tabular data, forms, articles, etc.
- Knowledge of markup used for layout such as dividers.
- Knowledge at the level to be able to hand-code markup.
- Including media and images.
- Knowledge of XML syntax for markup and content.
- Knowledge of how to use XML for the interchange of data
- Specifying different CSS for various media, devices and displays.
- Methods for including CSS inline, internal and external via linked style sheets.
- Syntax of CSS declarations, properties and attributes.
- CSS box model and methods for CSS positioning, absolute and relative.
- Knowledge of properties and attributes to control the display.
- Knowledge of the operators, variables, datatypes, objects, properties and methods.
- Familiarity with control structures such as objects, functions, conditional statements, arrays, loops and expressions.
- Forms and regular expression validation and submitting data.
- Knowledge of how to apply logical operators and conditional statements.
- Creating and controlling windows and dialogs.
- Processes for troubleshooting and debugging
- Familiarity with development and debugging tools for cross-browser issues.
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