Journal Entries
Apr 8, 2009
How’s 2 out of 10?
One of my co-workers pointed me to this post on Tech Republic about 10 skills that developers will need in the next 5 years.
Now I have never considered myself a developer. My background is in art. The tech side of my career was something of an afterthought. I figured that a good painter would know how to mix paint and a good designer would be pretty handy with an x-acto knife, french curves and a ruler. So why shouldn’t I know a little more about my chosen medium.
Ten years later, the tech side of my career had arguably become the majority. That’s not a complaint. I do love working with code. But I always feel like I’m working my way through a foreign land with half a map.
I take the Tech Republic list with a grain of salt. While I have one foot in the development world, my other one is firmly planted in visual design. But it does bother me somewhat that I can only check off maybe two of those ten. I don’t think I’ll ever really need Java, but it might be the other half of my missing map.
