1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 [treehouse, Teacher Q&A] 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 [Throughout your entire web development career, what was the hardest task you completed] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,000 [that tested your skills and knowledge to the fullest? ] 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,000 [answer by Jason Seifer] 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Probably making my first web page. 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,000 No, I'm kidding. 7 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,000 I was going to have a really long, drawn-out story for that, but I don't. 8 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 I would say, as far as skills that have really tested me, 9 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 is anything large scale-- 10 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 working with large-scale websites. 11 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:32,000 I've worked on the MSN Music international site. 12 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 That was pretty huge. 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Pretty much anything working at scale 14 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,000 is a bit of a challenge. 15 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 [answer by Nick Pettit] 16 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Probably one of the hardest things I've ever done 17 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,000 is deciding that I didn't want to do freelancing anymore 18 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,000 and I wanted to get a "real job." 19 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,000 I think a lot of freelancers 20 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 are also in that mindset. 21 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 They want to just 22 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,000 stick with that lifestyle and stick with the freedom 23 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 that comes with freelancing. 24 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 But I actually found that, 25 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 just for me personally, 26 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 it was a much better fit 27 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 to just have a day-to-day job 28 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,000 where I have a steady income 29 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 and I sort of know what to expect, 30 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 whereas with freelancing, it's sort of just all over the place. 31 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 [answer by Mat Helme] 32 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Off the top of my head, I would have to say 33 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,000 in 2010, a buddy of mine released an iPhone app, 34 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,000 which involved bump. 35 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 It was a ringtone app, which you could 36 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,000 bump phone to phone 37 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 and it would swap ringtones 38 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,000 from one phone to the other. 39 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Being such a new technology-- 40 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,000 the iPhone and designing for it-- 41 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 the development for it was a really hard task. 42 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 [answer by Allison Grayce] 43 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 I think when I last worked at a .net agency, 44 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000 a lot of our clients were in the healthcare and finance industry. 45 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Forcing yourself to--you don't get to be as creative-- 46 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,000 so kind of forcing yourself to please that type of audience. 47 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Basically, you work with blue and white and black and gray 48 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 all day long. 49 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Kind of giving yourself that much limitation and that many restrictions 50 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,000 kind of tests your abilities as a user interface designer. 51 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 [answer by Jim Hoskins] 52 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 That's really hard to say, because I feel like a lot of projects 53 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 test different parts of my skills a lot. 54 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000 In my last job I worked with a lot of data and huge databases and data sets 55 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,000 and working with filtering data and finding useful information. 56 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 That was a whole different skill set from 57 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 when we did Code Racer and I had to create a crazy, multiplayer game 58 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 in 3 days 59 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 with the help of everybody else 60 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 in a big team, working very quickly. 61 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 That was a whole different set of skills, with communication 62 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,000 and management and just raw coding and design. 63 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 So I think different projects 64 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 exercise different skill sets, 65 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 but I feel like, as far as rapid development 66 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 and kind of like the craziest project I've ever done, 67 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Code Racer is pretty much up there 68 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000 because it was just a ridiculously short timeline for something that needed to be 69 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000 designed, built, and launched in just a few days. 70 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:32,000 [treehouse]