Don't Put All Your Eggs in Someone Else's Basket

Don't Put All Your Eggs in Someone Else's Basket - Chad Fowler

chadfowler.com 13 Aug '13, 6am

Don't Put All Your Eggs in Someone Else's Basket

Don't Put All Your Eggs in Someone Else's Basket 2013.07.09 (Excerpt from The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development) While managing an application development group, I once asked one of my employees, “What do you want to do with your career? What do you want to be?” I was terribly disappointed by his answer: “I want to be a J2EE architect.” I asked why not a “Microsoft Word designer” or a “RealPlayer installer?” This guy wanted to build his career around a specific technology created by a specific company of which he was not an employee . What if the company goes out of business? What if it let its now-sexy technology become obsolete? Why would you want to trust a technology company with your career? Somehow, as an industry, we fool ourselves into thinking market leader is the same thing as standard . So, to some people, it seems ratio...

Full article: http://chadfowler.com/passionate-programmer/eggs.html

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@opticalcortex » 16 Aug '13, 7pm
[Excerpt from 'The Passionate Programmer'] Don't Put All Your Eggs in Someone Else's Basket. [link] via @chadfowler
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@teropa » 14 Aug '13, 6pm
Don't Put All Your Eggs in Someone Else's Basket, solid advice from @chadfowler [link]
@BjoernRochel » 13 Aug '13, 4pm
Not limited to iOS devs RT @ekurutepe: Great article by @chadfowler. Something to keep in mind for us iOS devs. [link]
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@mindcrash » 13 Aug '13, 11am
As a developer you shouldn’t base your whole career on the technology of a single vendor – [link]
@bubbleconf » 13 Aug '13, 10am
Nice article of BubbleConf speaker @chadfowler: [link]
@peterwallhead » 13 Aug '13, 8am
“Let the vendors come and go—I know how to design a system!” [link] via @chadfowler
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@bojanskr » 13 Aug '13, 7am
Awsome article by @chadfowler [link] Something every modern software developer should consider and strive for.
@eoinkelly » 13 Aug '13, 7am
You are not your goddamned IDE or file extensions. [link] Good stuff from @chadfowler
@InTheScript » 13 Aug '13, 7am
Love this article by @chadfowler - All about avoiding vendor / platform lock as a programmer [link] via @chadfowler
@chadfowler » 13 Aug '13, 7am
RT @ekurutepe: Great article by @chadfowler. Something to keep in mind for us iOS devs. [link]
@ekurutepe » 13 Aug '13, 7am
Great article by @chadfowler. Something to keep in mind for us iOS devs. [link]
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RT @ekurutepe: Great article by @chadfowler. Something to keep in mind for us iOS devs. [link]
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RT @ekurutepe: Great article by @chadfowler. Something to keep in mind for us iOS devs. [link]
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RT @ekurutepe: Great article by @chadfowler. Something to keep in mind for us iOS devs. [link]
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