In my view, a good developer is a "table with legs":
http://www.av8n.com/physics/breadth-depth.htm
It's no good to be a beginner at everything an expert at nothing. But equally,
an area of extreme skill is no good without the context of any others.
I think the best people in any industry have a
"ops should know how to run the specs, and the devs should know how to
restart unicorn"
Definitely quotable :-)
On 24 July 2012 17:13, Ben Hoskings wrote:
> In my view, a good developer is a "table with legs":
>
> http://www.av8n.com/physics/breadth-depth.htm
>
> It's no good to be a beginner a
I can't recall in the last few years of web development having met a
back-end (say, Rails) developer who was better at what he did because
he specialised in it.
The best sysadmins I met in my life were kernel hackers. The best Ruby
devs could also create great interfaces (e.g.: _why). The best
fro
Thanks for all the comments guys!
There are a couple of points I couldn't agree with more
1. become a domain expert as well as a good developer
2. balance the breadth and the depth of your skills. All rounder is super
important for a team, but you may never want to replace Shane Warne with
And
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 03:36:24PM +1000, Gregory McIntyre wrote:
> +1 to that. I found that using Gentoo for my servers put the bleeding
> in bleeding edge. Maybe if you're more pro than I am it is okay? I
> like Ubuntu Server LTS now.
This site is somewhat old now, but still contains all you nee
+1 for Ben's response.
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I think in software breath is probably slightly more important, only
because of the speed which things change.
It's easy to be left behind... constant learning is key and there is a
strategy to learning the things that will keep you happy and relevant.
;)
Stonie.
On 24 July 2012 19:25, Craig Read
