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"Be wary of holes in proficiency. Rails developers should be fearless. Its reasonable to expect them to have a command of everything from database indices to cr
by ardit33 19y ago
"Be wary of holes in proficiency. Rails developers should be fearless. Its reasonable to expect them to have a command of everything from database indices to cross-platform JavaScript. (Bonus points if they are handy in Photoshop and Illustrator.)"
-- This is pretty retarded. While most decent developers have toyed around with lots of technologies, it takes a lot of work and time to know one in depth. Anybody that claimes that knows everything:
1. Usually are jack of all trades but master of none. Basically they have mocked around with everything, but they are pretty mediocre and never had the chance to involve in a technology in great depths.
2.Are the "heroic" types, the especially young ones that have played or mocked around with certain technologies, and the "claim" they know them. This is more a naive interpratation of being familiar with a technology is the same as knowing it, and this guys are about a rude-awekening when they actually have to do something serious on their technologies they "know".
Yes, I mocked around with photoshop/firwork, but I am not a good designer, I have done some PHP work, but I am not good at it, I have designed some databases, but I am not that knowlageble person to know everything at least I admit it.
Be wary of people that don't admit they weakness, but appear to "know everything"
- downer 19y agoApparently this article's advice is "just hire someone who is good at everything!"