How many languages do you speak?
“How many languages do you speak?” — Owen Lars
“I am fluent in over 6 million forms of communication.” — Protocol Droid
Was Rails 3 one of them?
It sure seems like you have to be C-3PO to make it as a dev:
html now html 5, css and now css 3,
ruby - modules, mixins, and metaprogramming
rails - rails routing, rails responders, validations, migrations, built-in helpers
tdd/bdd (whatever you call it this week) - test unit, shoulda, cucumber, rspec,
yaml, xml, csv (doubtful that csv actually counts against us tho),
erb, haml
database - does sql/mysql cut it? nope. now you need to know couchdb, mongodb, redis, friendly, riak, and someflavordb,
mashups/apis - aws, ec2, ebs, s3 (sheesh Amazon), and whatever api so-and-so came up with that you want to eat, SOAP, REST
javascript and jquery and gotta know all the plugin options too,
and then there is the command line:
rails <command> (formerly script/<command> <option>), gem <command> <option>, cap <in your ass>, rake <or sake>, thor <Wotan love 'im>,version control - svn, now git,
"dare i mention our great friend and sometimes nemesis, extemporaneously?"[/(re)[a-z]*.*(g).*(ex)/i];[$1, $2, $3] * ''and I haven’t even mentioned essential unix commands -
grep, scp, ssh (are you private or pubic?), top, less, tail, head -
for the hardcore fans: sed and awk,
and we also have our text editor “language” which is really just a human-muscle-memory set -
textmate, vim, emacs, xcode, gedit, joe (yes I said joe).
how many skillsets do we really have?
how many do we need?
doesn’t anyone else think this is insanity?
ipad.
