[bking]

An excerpt from David Mosher's Presentation "So You Want to be a Front-End Engineer":

A hacker can come up with solutions, but maybe they can’t look back after they’ve finished and realize how they came up with the solution. They just kinda poke at things until they get something that works. … At some point, you level up and become a developer and a developer understands best practices. They’ve heard other developers say things like “you should put your scripts at the bottom of the webpage” … and you use those best practices to craft solutions but you don’t really understand beneath the best practices, beneath the abstractions. … An engineer is someone who can get things done, craft a solution — they understand the best practices, but they also understand why they’re using the best practices that they are … [they] move into an understanding of the platform as a whole.

This was pulled from a nifty little blog:

http://blog.hartleybrody.com/hacker-developer-engineer/

[czbond]

Excellent articulation. I've been calling myself a technologist (a higher level abstraction of engineer) but no one really understands what that is outside of technology. I liked this distinction.