[treehouse, Teacher Q&A] 0:00 [Throughout your entire web development career, what was the hardest task you completed] 0:05 [that tested your skills and knowledge to the fullest? ] 0:08 [answer by Jason Seifer] 0:09 Probably making my first web page. 0:11 No, I'm kidding. 0:14 I was going to have a really long, drawn-out story for that, but I don't. 0:16 I would say, as far as skills that have really tested me, 0:19 is anything large scale-- 0:21 working with large-scale websites. 0:24 I've worked on the MSN Music international site. 0:27 That was pretty huge. 0:32 Pretty much anything working at scale 0:34 is a bit of a challenge. 0:37 [answer by Nick Pettit] 0:39 Probably one of the hardest things I've ever done 0:41 is deciding that I didn't want to do freelancing anymore 0:44 and I wanted to get a "real job." 0:48 I think a lot of freelancers 0:53 are also in that mindset. 0:55 They want to just 0:58 stick with that lifestyle and stick with the freedom 1:01 that comes with freelancing. 1:05 But I actually found that, 1:08 just for me personally, 1:10 it was a much better fit 1:12 to just have a day-to-day job 1:14 where I have a steady income 1:17 and I sort of know what to expect, 1:20 whereas with freelancing, it's sort of just all over the place. 1:23 [answer by Mat Helme] 1:26 Off the top of my head, I would have to say 1:28 in 2010, a buddy of mine released an iPhone app, 1:30 which involved bump. 1:35 It was a ringtone app, which you could 1:37 bump phone to phone 1:40 and it would swap ringtones 1:42 from one phone to the other. 1:45 Being such a new technology-- 1:48 the iPhone and designing for it-- 1:51 the development for it was a really hard task. 1:54 [answer by Allison Grayce] 1:57 I think when I last worked at a .net agency, 1:59 a lot of our clients were in the healthcare and finance industry. 2:03 Forcing yourself to--you don't get to be as creative-- 2:07 so kind of forcing yourself to please that type of audience. 2:11 Basically, you work with blue and white and black and gray 2:15 all day long. 2:18 Kind of giving yourself that much limitation and that many restrictions 2:20 kind of tests your abilities as a user interface designer. 2:24 [answer by Jim Hoskins] 2:29 That's really hard to say, because I feel like a lot of projects 2:31 test different parts of my skills a lot. 2:34 In my last job I worked with a lot of data and huge databases and data sets 2:37 and working with filtering data and finding useful information. 2:41 That was a whole different skill set from 2:45 when we did Code Racer and I had to create a crazy, multiplayer game 2:48 in 3 days 2:51 with the help of everybody else 2:54 in a big team, working very quickly. 2:56 That was a whole different set of skills, with communication 2:58 and management and just raw coding and design. 3:01 So I think different projects 3:04 exercise different skill sets, 3:07 but I feel like, as far as rapid development 3:10 and kind of like the craziest project I've ever done, 3:14 Code Racer is pretty much up there 3:17 because it was just a ridiculously short timeline for something that needed to be 3:20 designed, built, and launched in just a few days. 3:23 [treehouse] 3:26