Interviewing late last year I got a series of applications from unemployed long term mv programmers. Several of them had been contracting for years, being paid a lot of money (in some case twice what we were offering) to work on green screen applications in basic. They lacked what I would call simple IT skills, one said that he had been teaching himself new skills by networking together two PCs at home, which he had found 'challenging'.
Now I'm not saying that all long term mv programmers are like that, but quite a number are and they will struggle. We do a lot of our work in java and html and increasingly even our database people need to be web savvy. Speaking as a 28 year mv veteran myself, I know how hard it is to adapt to this new world but equally I recognise the need. Increasingly we are finding it easier to recruit web and java skilled people and teach them what they need to know about U2, much quicker and cheaper than taking veterans who expect their experience to mean they are paid a lot of money and who struggle to understand what we are talking about when we say XML, REST, http GET & POST etc. George Land APT Solutions Ltd U2 UK Distributor On 27/04/2011 15:33, "Rex Gozar" <rgo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Make them awesome. > > <flame> > > The problem is not the maturity of the interfaces, but the "maturity" > of the developer community. Too many Pick programmers see the latest > technology as "here today, gone tomorrow" so they are not inspired to > learn it, much less create feature-rich software that implements it. > That's not to say that some of the more vocal developers on this list > do not use modern technologies, but I think the critical mass still > thinks "green screen is faster = better software". > > Software development is about making the USER awesome at what they do. > There are a lot ways to do that, but ignoring newer technologies > because they may be replaced tomorrow is just retarded. You don't > create web apps because you have no clue how to write HTML, CSS, and > javascript. You don't create GUI apps because haven't spent the time > to learn Visual Whatever. Stop treating every problem like a nail > because you only have a hammer in your toolbox. > > </flame> > > Make them (the users) awesome, and we won't have to worry about > leaving U2, or its marketing, or whether the VP's on the golf course > are talking about SAP. With awesome users, the VP's will be talking > about how they can extend their U2 applications. > > rex > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
