I have been spending my time and resources now working on getting to know Ruby and Java and trying to fully grasp OO principles. I want to make sure that no matter the language that I am using that I am writing the best code I can and that it adheres to the principles or Object oriented programming and design. To that end I started following a lot of new blogs, and this caused me to find more than one that has hit on the subject that I agree with more and more.
Developers should not specialize. Just like using FizzBuzz and other standard interview coding questions to understand the logical steps a person takes to write code. We should be pushing for a concept driven programmer instead of an implementation specialist. If you have a conceptually strong programmer you can throw almost any technology at them and they will succeed. If you have someone who doesn’t understand the concepts and has focused on the specific implementation they know it will take much longer.
Enjoy the post below. I did.
http://davybrion.com/blog/2010/10/developers-shouldnt-specialize/
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