Cheers piers. That's a hell of map. On 23/06/2017 2:10 am, "Piers Williams" <piers.willi...@gmail.com> wrote:
https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap seems like quite a good landscape overview On 18 June 2017 at 18:47, Preet Sangha <preetsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks guys. I suspect that what I'm really after is the answer to the > question "I'm gonna do some web dev to support my IOT projects, and to make > the skills saleable, what web technologies should I consider as must haves > these days?" > > I can see that javascript is the big one! As a .netter I'll obviously get > reskilled in MVC and I already have ORM & SQL skills anyway. > > Again thanks for taking the time for your detailed answers! > > > > regards, > Preet, in Auckland NZ > > > On 18 June 2017 at 15:02, Stephen Price <step...@lythixdesigns.com> wrote: > >> Yes, I'm currently working on an Android application which is part of a >> product suite. >> >> >> The work going on in the Xamarin space is very active. Many new features >> and bug fixes coming out regularly. >> >> Mature is a relative term I think. If you compare Xamarin with other >> frameworks that have been around longer and are relatively slow moving (ie >> say WPF) then yeah you could say its less mature. >> >> >> If you want stable, then I would say that is there. The stable releases >> are stable enough to use in production. Perfect? No, but each new release >> is more stable than the last. Currently seeing several releases per month. >> Show stopper bugs are unusual. >> >> >> Looking at your post about getting into web technologies, I would say >> that it would be difficult as a developer today to be able to be all over >> Web technologies as well as Xamarin/mobile. Throw desktop into that and you >> further dilute your skill focus. I have worked with all of these, desktop, >> web and mobile. My experience is if you focus on one of them, keeping up to >> date, then you miss things in the others. Last year I was working on >> Angular 2 (about the time it released, I was using the final RC's) and I >> don't even know what version it's at now. >> >> >> It takes a lot of time to keep up to speed with so many fast moving >> fronts. The more time you have available the more of them you can keep on >> top off. I guess it comes down to your personal interests and goals on >> which you focus on. Which do you enjoy the most? Do you contract or >> permanent? Do you enjoy going deep on one technology or like to spread your >> skills across many different technologies? If you do go deep on one, then >> that will take you away from others. >> >> >> Do what you love, you will do way better at it and it won't even feel >> like work. Changing from one technology to another can take time as >> employers tend to hire people with experience. I think you are on the right >> path finding out the must haves to learn, but finding the "right" one might >> be a much harder task as there are so many. In all my years as a developer, >> I've never seen two projects using identical technology stacks. Even when >> you compare two Angular projects, or whatever. >> >> That's gotta make choosing what to learn so much harder. >> >> >> cheers >> >> Stephen >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> on >> behalf of Preet Sangha <preetsan...@gmail.com> >> *Sent:* Sunday, 18 June 2017 9:59:16 AM >> *To:* ozDotNet >> *Subject:* Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting >> Dev should know these days? >> >> Are the. Net core skills in demand where you guys are based? Is anyone >> doing commercial projects in the portable technologies? >> >> I've read about people experience of xamarin on the list and it doesn't >> seem to resonate as mature technology. >> >> On 16/06/2017 11:00 pm, "Preet Sangha" <preetsan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Cheers. I appreciate the feedback. >>> >>> regards, >>> Preet, in Auckland NZ >>> >>> >>> On 16 June 2017 at 20:07, Bec C <bec.usern...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Melb market is also filled with Dynamics and Sitecore work. >>>> >>>> But as .net dude said JS is where it's all at. I found it very hard to >>>> get work in Melb with no Angular or React experience. >>>> >>>> "Full stack" they usually want Angular or React, css, webapi, entity >>>> framework, sql server. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, 16 June 2017, DotNet Dude <adotnetd...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey Preet, >>>>> >>>>> Generally, Azure and JS frameworks like React and Angular is where >>>>> "it" is mostly at these days as far as general .net wed dev goes. It >>>>> also depends on location from my experience. I'm not familiar with the >>>>> Auckland market at all. In Melbourne most of the maintenance work is in >>>>> mvc, very little if any webforms, LOTS of Angular/React/whatever JS >>>>> framework. Same for Sydney. Canberra is mostly webforms and mvc from what >>>>> I >>>>> know (govt is usually a bit behind), Qld and WA I am not sure about. >>>>> >>>>> If you're wanting to get back into web dev I would ask you why. Not >>>>> joking. :) If your reason is because you want to update and get back into >>>>> it I'd say go hard on Javascript. If you're after money I'd say forget all >>>>> that and get into Salesforce lol. Kidding. Well not really. As I said >>>>> earlier you need to know your market too if you're wanting to be valuable >>>>> (hireable). >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, 16 June 2017, Preet Sangha <preetsan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi team, >>>>>> >>>>>> Got Friday OT question for you all. I started .net with the beta and >>>>>> used aspx all those years ago. I stayed with ASPX until about 2007 but >>>>>> about then I moved into doing more desktop development. I'd really like >>>>>> to >>>>>> dust off and polish my web dev skills but there seems to be a plethora of >>>>>> things that have sort of past me by Azure, Javascript, Angular (?) to >>>>>> name >>>>>> a few. >>>>>> >>>>>> I know that fair few of you do web dev so i was wondering what you >>>>>> could advise as the must have skills today! >>>>>> >>>>>> Just to give you a history, from 2007 I did WCF/WF & WPF type stuff, >>>>>> from 2010 I did more Cubes and SSRS BI stuff and for the past couple of >>>>>> years I've been doing pure legacy desktop C++/CLI/.Net so not a lot of >>>>>> webbie stuff at all :-) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> regards, >>>>>> Preet, in Auckland NZ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> > -- piers more pedantry at http://piers7.blogspot.com/
