Rockford Lhotka in his latest post writes about being a better developer, and there’s one point that caught my eye:
Keep my head above water
Microsoft has recently, and continues into the foreseeable future, to come out with new technology releases at a ridiculous pace. By “head above water” all I really mean is that I want, at least, to have a general clue about the purpose and real capabilities of all the stuff they are throwing at us. Not just the marketing hype, but what it really means.
I’ve been suffering this for some time, for the last year and a half I’ve been working in a project with cutting edge technology: .Net 3.0 when WCF still was called Indigo specially WCF. Although it has been a long project I still fell I have some ground to cover here and there, and I’m already ruling out all those presentation based technologies (like ASP.Net AJAX, WPF or Silverlight) that I know I wont use in th forthcoming future. But right in front of me already lies things like LINQ and C# 3.0, and all of this just in Microsoft world: I haven’t had an opportunity to get decent a decent glimpse of EJB 3.0.
I guess the trick is to try to keep the head above the water, at least to know what’s out there and that may hit you one of these days…
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