Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 20th November 2007 10:39



Alex Townsend wrote:
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> Adding in another full programming language *per year* ? I think my
> brain would explode. I do play with others - and, as per Pragmatic
> Programmer - take a lot away from them. But learn them fully? No, I
> admit, I don't do that.
>
> It's also a fair old time constraint. I'm currently working on four
> projects simultaneously, and that situation doesn't change much
> throughout the year. Sure the projects change, but the number of them
> doesn't. So spending the extra downtime learning a new language
> becomes somewhat lower on the priority chain, I'm afraid.
>
This is I think where people who work for themselves lose out- most
larger employers will offer personal development time and training to
some degree whereas when we have to choose between learning about new
technology and paying the mortgage few people choose to be self-improved
but living in a cardboard box.