[Udo]

Uh, he probably meant that he was doing several of these at the same time, didn't he?

[zrgiu_]

Obviously. But that's a very uncommon practice in Eastern Europe and Asia (the two areas I'm familiar with). And the applicant was from the same area.

[rodh257]

out of interest, what would someone say if they had been spending the last year working at a job that required iOS apps that interface with a PHP backend? 0.5 years each?

[pagekalisedown]

You combine the two in a single item, exactly the way you said it. "1 year of iOS front end development with a PHP backend."