This is a good conversation.
The last paragraph is the nub of it to me – is there more as a local Delphi
community and developers we could be doing to improve the eco-system and
computer literacy and quality of intellectual thinking?
The IT industry is no place for complacency – I do wonder at times if in NZ we
do believe too much we do better than elsewhere. Certainly Kiwis do a lot
with minimal resources, but we do not always do better. After all Silicon
Valley originated in Stanford, and not here.
[going only a bit off-topic]
I spent time recently in Stockholm and UK, and one of the overarching
impressions was how far below those countries NZ is in intellectual pursuits of
all kinds – reflected in general conversation, level of political debate,
quality of university education, even the quality of TV which is vastly
superior there. For example BBC 4 will often show 4 quality documentaries in
a row. Whereas NZ boxes above its weight, a country like Sweden has only 8
million population and a vastly deeper engineering and intellectual culture –
eClassic.com, Spotify, Skype, Volvo, Saab, Bofors, etc were all born there.
Its a particularly poignant point to Christchurch residents who are watching
their city being rebuilt and hoping against hope that the stupid mistakes of
the past are not repeated when we could build a really quality city.
For a salutary look at how well other cultures can do things – here is a video
that went viral on Youtube
“Stockholm its not a coincidence”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkdWUjdJyA
also how to do city transport - meant to bug anyone in any major NZ city:
http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/short-film-amsterdam-will-blow-your-mind-video.html
a.. Right back to the original question specifically – is there a shortage
for essential Delphi skills in NZ compared to Oz and Switzerland? What is
lacking – training/size of talent pool/non-intellectual focussed culture/lack
of or quality of IT industry training/Delphi community being less lively etc?
There is a lack of developers here. The ones that are more senior are happy in
their current roles. Many have moved one to other languages or into management.
Which is what I've been doing recently as well, but I still enjoy writing code.
Also a lot of developers seem to come from one or two people teams that do
everything, so introducing them to procedures, peer review, source control can
be an interesting experience :-)_______________________________________________
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