Comments on: Should You Specialize in a Technology?

By: Programming Tutorials

Programming Tutorials — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:18:57 +0000

The problem with specializing in one thing is that you become less needed. If you know a number of different languages / technologies you’ll always be needed. Lets say you specialize in something, and in 10 years that becomes obsolete. You now need to spend the time specializing in something else.

I prefer (and a number of employers I’ve talked to agree), that being a general developer is much better.

By: honest ape

honest ape — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:11:44 +0000

The worst is my mother in law. She installs 300 programs in her toolbar and system tray and wonders why her computer that cost $2500 screeches to a halt. If I use her computer when we are visiting at the holidays, any problem that happens to it at any point thereafter is blamed on me.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:21:47 +0000

@honest_ape

Groovy is a dynamic language that runs in the JVM. Some call it a scripting language as well, but I am not sure. The idea is that it is similar to Ruby in some respects but has a syntax very similar to Java.

Regarding what your family thinks, my wife feels the same way. If I am reading a technical book, she just says that it looks like gibberish. Don’t get me started on being the family computer consultant! That is probably a full article itself.

By: honest ape

honest ape — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:19:59 +0000

Another great article. I’m thinking about learning Ruby, and haven’t even heard of Groovy. I know HTML and CSS very well, and am working on learning PHP and Javascript.

If anyone in my family read that sentence, they’d think I was writing in a foreign language.

My brothers are only 2 and 4 years my junior, but neither are really computer literate beyond pc games and casual internet use. My parents are getting there with the internet, but it’s a struggle. And now my grandmother wants me to set her up on the internet. That’ll be fun.