My name is Shara Beech and I work at HowStuffWorks.com.
It's a company that provides free information
about how things work.
How does your computer work? How
does a plasma TV work? How does DVD work?
Almost anything you can think of,
and if we don't have it then
we take suggestions about what you
would like to see on the site.
I do web development and I'm a technical resource,
so if something needs...
if there's a problem on the website -
the website's down - I work with our technical team. There are four of us.
And we solve the problem. If there's an ad
that has a little, you know, not found.
It's giving an error. Ok, why is it giving
an error? Ok, I can figure that out.
Maybe it's a problem with the program that we're
using to serve the ads.
Maybe it's a problem with the tag code.
So I go in and I read the HTML,
and the PHP, and the MySQL,
and I figure out what the problem is.
Typically, I do not write code myself.
I do sometimes, and I go in and I edit things,
but mostly I help solve problems.
Where I fit into this team of four is that the
other three people on the team have at
least 15 years of experience in programmer world.
I do not.
