Good insight Allen, thank you! Your experience echoes mine as well.
P.S. - The way my father always said it is "sometimes you eat the salami, sometimes the salami eats you". I bet everyones' dad told them that with a different something or other eating something or other :)
Fogleson, Allen wrote:
The move towards specialization has ups and downs, depending on where
you live, what you do, and what your company's management thinks. As we
specialize into very discreet tasks (that presumably can have very
precise requirements wrapped around them) the business owners begin to
gain the ability to leverage alternative methods of development. (think
offshore). Now as a business owner this may (or may not) make sense, but
the more offshore that happens... well you see the cycle. So it depends
on where you live :) Of course, at least in the US, we have mostly
caused this ourselves with the dismal public education system, but
that's an argument for a different forum.
Specialization also means that should a business not want to do offshore
they can now look for precise skills. I think this began to show up a
couple three years ago in strength when managers started looking for
very precise skills.
When I moved to Atlanta I interviewed with several companies but one
interview that sticks out is one where they were using Websphere
Commerce. I didn't get the job and even though I have tons of experience
with a competing product they wanted the exact experience (or at least
that is what I was told is the reason) so you can see that even within a
particular sector (lets call it server side architecture) businesses are
getting even more particular.
Al
p.s. funny side of the story is that I got hired by a different company
and eventually went on a contract to the exact company that did not hire
me, to do the job I interviewed for. Seems the guy they hired didn't
like the hours. So as the line goes sometimes you eat the bear, other
times the bear eats you.
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:16 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Cc: Shihgian Lee
Subject: Re: AJAX: Whoa, Nellie!
I don't think saying it is wrong is accurate... It is just an environment you are probably not used to. Some argue it is better that way and many say that's the way we should be moving. Not sure I agree, but some say that.
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com
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