This is where I brutalize the masses.
Cyprus
Dedication
May 26th
Ne eimai ston aera? Tha ithela na afierosw to epomeno tragoudaki stin kathigitria apo tin Larnaca pou “eviase” tous dyo anilikous mathites tis.
Red Villages 2010 – The summer begins
May 25th
Who said that the world financial crisis would destroy Agia Napa this year? It certainly didn’t seem so this weekend and it’s still only May! I went over to Napa and Protaras this Sunday night and I found the crowd insane =) Then again, why am I telling you this? You were probably there!
The flood of “professionals”
Jul 9th
Is it just me or are we being flooded? Recently numerous companies popped up that provide services for web-development, hosting, IT services and generally all kinds of fruit the basket can be filled with. They all claim they are professionals, yet I’ve seen that quite a lot lack basic knowledge in their fields. So can they really claim they are professionals? This is how dictionary.com describes a professional:
a person who is expert at his or her work: You can tell by her comments that this editor is a real professional.
This is an expert:
a person who has special skill or knowledge in some particular field; specialist; authority: a language expert.
So is it normal to assume that at any given time professionals would be only those that have the most knowledge or are the most skillful in their field? Can I call myself a professional when it comes to IT and web development? I’m not sure, because I think I have self-awareness. On one hand I see all these people flooding us with advertisments of their “skills” and how good they are, but on the other hand I know some people that are REALLY GOOD at what they do; people that I look up to.
These are some of my very recent experiences:
- Seeing developers writing HTML in tables only (no DIVs).
- Seeing people dreaming of designing a game without any prior experience, or even knowledge of what copyright and patents are.
- Receiving an e-mail from a web development company saying that they are willing to redevelop the Gamers-Cy web-site for free, as long as it is based on Joomla, they host in on their servers and they get exclusive right to put ads on from which they’ll generate revenue. They mentioned that their contract will last for 1 year.
So, correct me if I am wrong for what I understood from that e-mail. Are they saying they can only develop in Joomla (who can’t?), they’ll be making revenue from ads for 1 year, and after 1 year they’ll give me the choice to either buy it or let them still have their ads on? Are they asking to host it on their servers so I can’t “steal” it? Whaaaat???
Anyhow, back to being professional. Self-awareness is a huge problem in Cyprus…If you like the idea of being professional so much then go work to become one, instead of advertising yourself as one trying to find the sheep in the market. There are not enough sheep for all of you.