KevySaysBeNice
[H]ard|Gawd
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- Dec 7, 2001
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Basically, for the past year and a half I've been working on various projects in my spare time. Some personal, some for local small business/artists, etc.
The projects aren't particularly impressive generally speaking, nothing you'd look at and say "WOW THAT IS AMAZING." Some of the projects are works in progress. BUT, a large part of the reason I worked on these projects is to learn things that I felt I wanted to learn. For instance, I wanted to learn the MVC design pattern, so I've been working on learning CodeIgniter for a while, and to help I worked on a few small projects using CodeIgniter. Same thing goes with a site where I wanted to practice jQuery because my "day job" doesn't allow me to write any jQuery. Etc.
Also, I worked on editing a flash template for a local business. The template is sort of crap, but I did do some edits and fix up some things, add products, etc. So I have some flash experience. I'm not an expert, and looking at the work I did on the Flash template would probably tell you as much, but again, it's something.
I could go on. I modified a Drupal template with a custom contact form. I redid a static HTML website so it was cross browser compatible. I made a site with details for a local business, and helped get the google ranking of the site up. Same with a lawyer.
Again, none of these sighs are really that impressive, but they each represent something I've learned or been learning.
Thoughts about how to include them on a resume (or not to include them at all?)?
What if I was applying to a Java job specifically?
What if I was applying to a web development job?
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The projects aren't particularly impressive generally speaking, nothing you'd look at and say "WOW THAT IS AMAZING." Some of the projects are works in progress. BUT, a large part of the reason I worked on these projects is to learn things that I felt I wanted to learn. For instance, I wanted to learn the MVC design pattern, so I've been working on learning CodeIgniter for a while, and to help I worked on a few small projects using CodeIgniter. Same thing goes with a site where I wanted to practice jQuery because my "day job" doesn't allow me to write any jQuery. Etc.
Also, I worked on editing a flash template for a local business. The template is sort of crap, but I did do some edits and fix up some things, add products, etc. So I have some flash experience. I'm not an expert, and looking at the work I did on the Flash template would probably tell you as much, but again, it's something.
I could go on. I modified a Drupal template with a custom contact form. I redid a static HTML website so it was cross browser compatible. I made a site with details for a local business, and helped get the google ranking of the site up. Same with a lawyer.
Again, none of these sighs are really that impressive, but they each represent something I've learned or been learning.
Thoughts about how to include them on a resume (or not to include them at all?)?
What if I was applying to a Java job specifically?
What if I was applying to a web development job?
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