Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-23 Thread Piers Williams
I don't think the mess is as much of a new thing as people make out - Java dev has always been like this from what I could see. It's just in the dotnet world (until recently) we've been pretty conservative, and stuck to the Microsoft sanctioned approach (by and large). Even then, we've got WPF

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-23 Thread Preet Sangha
Cheers piers. That's a hell of map. On 23/06/2017 2:10 am, "Piers Williams" wrote: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap seems like quite a good landscape overview On 18 June 2017 at 18:47, Preet Sangha wrote: > Thanks guys. I

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-22 Thread Tom Rutter
I believe the problem got exponentially worse when we expected a "full stack developer" to be good at everything On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Scott Barnes wrote: > I love that roadmap because it actually visualises the mess we live in > today... so yeah... again.. is

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-22 Thread Scott Barnes
I love that roadmap because it actually visualises the mess we live in today... so yeah... again.. is this really our best idea of the day? HTML/JS? :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Piers Williams wrote: >

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-22 Thread Piers Williams
https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap seems like quite a good landscape overview On 18 June 2017 at 18:47, Preet Sangha 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

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-18 Thread Preet Sangha
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

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-17 Thread Stephen Price
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

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-17 Thread Greg Keogh
> > I've read about people experience of xamarin on the list and it doesn't > seem to resonate as mature technology. > It's slowly improving, and you get used to it. It's still faster and easier to write C# and XAML than it would be to write and maintain wildly differing native projects -- *GK*

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-17 Thread Preet Sangha
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"

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-16 Thread Preet Sangha
Cheers. I appreciate the feedback. regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 16 June 2017 at 20:07, Bec C 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

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-16 Thread Preet Sangha
Thank you. Well I have a couple of reasons - one is the remaining relevant in case I need/want to change jobs, and the second is that I've done lots of desk top work and I need a new challenge away from the desktop programming. I've been playing with embedded/electronics/iot in my hobbies for then

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

2017-06-16 Thread DotNet Dude
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,