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Sometime about six months ago, I stopped using Firefox as my everyday web browser and switched to Google Chrome. Why? Because it’s fast, like browsing the internet on a rocket ship. My personal productivity suite includes a lot of Google applications (Gmail, Calendar, Reader, Docs, Voice, even a little bit of Wave every now and then), and their browser is just better optimized for the kinds of scripts those apps run. I still think Firefox is the most solid web development platform available, but if I’m not working on a web project I’m using Chrome instead.

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For the past two academic quarters, I’ve been on a co-op job doing web development work. My primary task was to take websites from a number of departments in the organization, already designed and populated with content, and rebuild those sites in Drupal (see previous bloggery). After almost six months on the job, you learn a few things about web-dev jobs. The co-op ended on Friday, so I think this is a good time to talk about a few of the things I learned.

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So I started this new co-op job. I’m working at RIT for one of my favorite professors doing all kinds of webwork. My current project is setting up a new site (not designing it—that was done last quarter, apparently) for the Software Engineering department using Drupal. When I got here, I had no idea what Drupal was. In the past week, it has become my favorite piece of web software.

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