Amit kull wrote:Hi,
Steve McConnell in code complete says that your position on the tech wave matters a lot. I agree and sometimes I think that I should have started with Java a couple of years earlier. But it is always driven by outside forces. (?)
Could you please give brief contents of the book, maybe chapter names/summaries? And by the way, why the word 'tidal'? Is the word used to say something beyond the obvious?
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Amit kull wrote:Hullo Jacquie,
Thanks for the answer.
By the way I started with java around 2005. What I meant was that I should have started java some 3 years earlier. However, point taken. It is never too late.
Now a corrollary question:
Another thing: one of the tips says that you should be willing to start at the bottom.
Is it good to start at the bootom of a big thing or at the bottom of small thing. For example: If I were to suggest a new language to someone I would suggest one newer than java.
PS. Thanks Henry for the link to answer topic.
Burk Hufnagel wrote:
Amit kull wrote:Hi,
Steve McConnell in code complete says that your position on the tech wave matters a lot. I agree and sometimes I think that I should have started with Java a couple of years earlier. But it is always driven by outside forces. (?)
Could you please give brief contents of the book, maybe chapter names/summaries? And by the way, why the word 'tidal'? Is the word used to say something beyond the obvious?
One nice thing about the tech wave is that if you miss it there's another one coming pretty soon. Java, Ruby on Rails, Rich Internet Applications, iPhone, Android, Google Wave....
The list goes on and on.
So you missed the start of the Java wave, get ready for the next one.![]()
Jacquie Barker wrote:I personally believe that one should not try to tackle a new technology until at least a few years after it has arrived on the scene -- as discussed in "Tip 2: Don't Be the First Kid on the Block with a New Toy", it usually takes a minimum of two years from the time that a new technology becomes commercially available for it to settle in. First, everyone thinks it is the greatest thing since sliced bread; next, everyone becomes disillusioned that it isn't the "silver bullet" they were hoping for. Sometimes, a technology fizzles after this stage is reached, but for a few, people's expectations settle in to what is realistically achieved with a technology, and it becomes mainstream.
I may be in the minority, but I still think that Ruby and Rails are sorting out the details too rapidly for me to want to dive deeply -- I've gotten some initial training so as to understand the overall mechanism of both, but I'm going to wait a while before trying to become proficient.
Cheers,
Jacquie
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Jacquie Barker wrote:It all depends on your "bandwidth," Burk.
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Burk Hufnagel wrote:
My problem is that I used to have more bandwidth than I do now, but I don't want to give up learning about all the cool new stuff that interests me. So instead of getting to dig deeply into it I just have time to play with it a bit - which does make it easier to pick it up at a later date if it turns out to be a winner.
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Vyas Sanzgiri wrote:How do you pick the "cool new stuff" ? There are 100s of them coming out every day.
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