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Important technologies for developer to have experience with

  • 15-01-2014 02:37PM
    #1
    carlmango11
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    Semi-hypothetical question:

    Say you were working for a company that used little 3rd party tools/technologies/libraries etc. What would you say would be good to get experience with in your free time in order to stay up to date/have transferrable skills?

    For example I've been looking at Hibernate, Spring and Gradle the last few days. What skills/experience do you guys think are important for a developer to have? I'm a Java developer but it's probably good to branch out a bit too.


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  • #2
    ChRoMe
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    carlmango11 wrote: »
    Semi-hypothetical question:

    Say you were working for a company that used little 3rd party tools/technologies/libraries etc. What would you say would be good to get experience with in your free time in order to stay up to date/have transferrable skills?

    For example I've been looking at Hibernate, Spring and Gradle the last few days. What skills/experience do you guys think are important for a developer to have? I'm a Java developer but it's probably good to branch out a bit too.

    For Java the default enterprise stack, i.e the one to get you a job quickest. Is maven, Spring and Hibernate.


  • #3
    counterpointaud
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    I've been asking myself the same question over the last year or so (3rd year student in Software Systems Dev, not working in the industry yet apart from 6 months placement).

    In my opinion, in order to play it safe and give yourself the most options:

    -Some familiarity with at least one server side stack. For me (even though I am studying Java at college) it is .Net. MVC, Web API, IIS, OWIN, Azure etc. Chrome's suggestions are definitely solid though and this is the route I would have taken if I didn't like MVC and Visual Studio so much.

    -Web technologies. For me this is trying to get out of my comfort zone and learn vanilla Javascript properly, as well as libraries/frameworks like Angular and Breeze. HTML5 in the wider sense of the word. Keeping up with developments in ECMAScript and CSS etc.

    -Native mobile. For me this is learning Android, although I am very interested in the work Xamarin are doing in the cross-platform space.


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