Re:A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this...
by dasil003 on Friday December 18, 2009 @04:17PM
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You should specialize in domain knowledge, not a tech stack. That's where the money is.
As far as the tech is concerned, you need to balance depth and breadth. I think this is easier to do in the open source world. I shudder to think what my career would have been like if I had got stuck with MS tech early. Being a web developer helps as well, because there are so many layers there that swapping one out at a time never involves too much of a learning curve. If you are well-versed in HTTP, HTML, CSS and Javascript you will still run circles around someone who just knows one language and some framework.
As far as the tech is concerned, you need to balance depth and breadth. I think this is easier to do in the open source world. I shudder to think what my career would have been like if I had got stuck with MS tech early. Being a web developer helps as well, because there are so many layers there that swapping one out at a time never involves too much of a learning curve. If you are well-versed in HTTP, HTML, CSS and Javascript you will still run circles around someone who just knows one language and some framework.