I can't recall in the last few years of web development having met a back-end (say, Rails) developer who was better at what he did because he specialised in it.
The best sysadmins I met in my life were kernel hackers. The best Ruby devs could also create great interfaces (e.g.: _why). The best front-end devs have a strong background in one or many programming languages. On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Ben Hoskings <[email protected]> wrote: > In my view, a good developer is a "table with legs": > > http://www.av8n.com/physics/breadth-depth.htm > > It's no good to be a beginner at everything an expert at nothing. But > equally, an area of extreme skill is no good without the context of any > others. > > I think the best people in any industry have a breadth of skills that they're > at least comfortable with to some extent, combined with a couple of areas of > high fluency. > > One yardstick that comes to mind -- some companies have separate dev and ops > teams, which is fine, but the ops should know how to run the specs, and the > devs should know how to restart unicorn. > > - Ben > > > > On 24/07/2012, at 4:09 PM, marsbomber wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I want to raise a questions here as per subject. How do you define a modern >> developer these days. Which of the following should a modern developer tick? >> >> - Front end dev >> - Backend dev >> - Server Admin >> - Operations >> - DBA to some degree >> - BA >> - Others? >> >> Love to hear your inputs! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/PYumIC_UTtAJ. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
