http://blog.technoetic.com/2007/01/20/are-you-an-effective-software-developer/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:44:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://blog.technoetic.com/2007/01/20/are-you-an-effective-software-developer/#comment-3083 Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:58:46 +0000 http://blog.technoetic.com/2007/01/20/are-you-an-effective-software-developer/#comment-3083 So, it appears the conflicting goals are your desire to learn and apply new technologies and your desire to please your current employer. Obviously, any advice I give here is just some guesses at what could be done. Do you believe your employer has good reasons for concern about the risk of these technologies? If not, what can you do to educate your employer and provide a strong case for the benefits (business benefits!) of these new approaches? Is your desire to learn the new skills strong enough to spend your spare time learning them and possibly applying them on an open source project, for example? The experience might lower the risk for using the technologies at your jobs. Changing employers is another option, but without the new skills you may have limited options. I also realize there may be additional conflicting goals like spending time with your family versus learning new skills in your spare time. Again, these are just suggestions. Look at the relative personal importance of your conflicting goals and whether you are making the best tradeoff in your current situation. So, it appears the conflicting goals are your desire to learn and apply new technologies and your desire to please your current employer. Obviously, any advice I give here is just some guesses at what could be done. Do you believe your employer has good reasons for concern about the risk of these technologies? If not, what can you do to educate your employer and provide a strong case for the benefits (business benefits!) of these new approaches? Is your desire to learn the new skills strong enough to spend your spare time learning them and possibly applying them on an open source project, for example? The experience might lower the risk for using the technologies at your jobs. Changing employers is another option, but without the new skills you may have limited options. I also realize there may be additional conflicting goals like spending time with your family versus learning new skills in your spare time. Again, these are just suggestions. Look at the relative personal importance of your conflicting goals and whether you are making the best tradeoff in your current situation.

]]> http://blog.technoetic.com/2007/01/20/are-you-an-effective-software-developer/#comment-2981 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:50:43 +0000 http://blog.technoetic.com/2007/01/20/are-you-an-effective-software-developer/#comment-2981 Yes, the goals like to learn new technologies and improve my skills. My company only use the mature technologies like EJB, JSP and so on,but I want to use AJAX to improve the customer's experiences, and to make the Web page more beautiful. Our manager can't abide by our advices, he said that those may increase the risks of the projects. Yes, the goals like to learn new technologies and improve my skills. My company only use the mature technologies like EJB, JSP and so on,but I want to use AJAX to improve the customer’s experiences, and to make the Web page more beautiful. Our manager can’t abide by our advices, he said that those may increase the risks of the projects.

]]> http://blog.technoetic.com/2007/01/20/are-you-an-effective-software-developer/#comment-2972 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:05:31 +0000 http://blog.technoetic.com/2007/01/20/are-you-an-effective-software-developer/#comment-2972 Can you be more specific about which goals are difficult to balance? Can you be more specific about which goals are difficult to balance?

]]> http://blog.technoetic.com/2007/01/20/are-you-an-effective-software-developer/#comment-2969 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:27:20 +0000 http://blog.technoetic.com/2007/01/20/are-you-an-effective-software-developer/#comment-2969 I really like the goals you want to achieve . but for me, I can't balance the work and my other achieves. Because every project for me are very busy, and lack for skills. Every time when I want to use some new technologies, the employer's efficacy can not be achieved. So how chould I achieve the other goals. Thank You ! I really like the goals you want to achieve .
but for me, I can’t balance the work and my other achieves. Because every project for me are very busy, and lack for skills. Every time when I want to use some new technologies, the employer’s efficacy can not be achieved. So how chould I achieve the other goals. Thank You !

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