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Technology Redundancy

Technology is moving at an ever changing pace, in the Microsoft stack alone it seems to change every month. As a developer the risk you face is massive if you don't keep up and keeping up is getting ever harder. Some developers have the spare time to keep up however if you have family or work long hours (or both) and you have no spare time. Some jobs afford you the time to look at new technology but that time has to be balanced with getting the job done, most jobs put the needs of the busines\customer first and technology last (if the job gets done it gets done). Technology adoption is far slower than technology advancement but as developers we need to know the latest and greatest or risk technology redundancy. What do you do to stay ahead?

Posted: Mar 24 2009, 11:04 PM by andrewstopford | with 2 comment(s)
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Peter said:

When I started off in IT I made the decision to buy at least one technology book a month and read them the next month.

Now with things like amazon marketplace I manage to buy 2 - 3 books a month.  I just had to sell 50 of the books I had when I first started 7 years ago which were vastly outdated!

I usually try to write proof of concept apps in each new technology (where applicable) and then bring them into work to show what we could be doing instead of .net 2.0 winforms.

I push my company extremely hard to get them to move to new frameworks and features but as you said the needs of the customer do come first, and sadly the customer is like a village idiot with a big wedge of money!  

# March 25, 2009 9:47 AM

leo said:

Really thinking about suicide !!!!  

# May 6, 2009 11:01 PM