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geekam

>>A “full-stack programmer” who has created non-trivial applications.

Pardon my ignorance but:

What is a full-stack programmer?

How does one try to get to the levels of a full-stack programmer?

What exactly is a a non-trivial application? Examples?

How does one get started on these non-trivial applications?

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This is what I mean by a full-stack programmer.

http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/the-full-...

At Performable, full-stack means being capable to build atop Hadoop, HBase, Python/Tornado and HTML/SASS/CoffeeScript.

Of course, you don't have to be the best at either end of the spectrum, but being able to visualize your feature through every layer would be great.

Thanks. That is a nice article.

I'm assuming they're looking for web developers - in this context full-stack means someone who's perfectly comfortable with all technologies involved in a web app, from front-end (CSS, JavaScript), to backend (Ruby on Rails, PHP, etc.), to database work, and anything else that might come up (designing for scalability, working with EC2, etc.)

I thought full stack meant literally the full software stack, from OS-level, native apps, on up through web stuff.

Or is that "software generalist"?

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