Comments for Jerome Covington: Dev

Comment on Computer Science and Common Sense by sausage machine

sausage machine — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:21:19 +0000

I agree with this to a point, sometimes those over-thinkers working on that problem and over-thinking it to death actually don’t find a solution to that problem. But, they may find a solution to another problem that they could only have found by focusing on something entirely different.

Comment on Cloud9 IDE, a Complete Coding Environment in the Cloud by jc

jc — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:46:02 +0000

With such a JavaScript-centric slant, I have found Cloud9 insufficient for my recent personal projects, which have tended towards WordPress/PHP. However, with recent enhancements such as code completion, real time collaboration, and offline editing mode, it sounds like the tool is becoming more robust. The next time I find myself dreaming in pure JS I’ll be sure to take Cloud9 for another spin.

Comment on Cloud9 IDE, a Complete Coding Environment in the Cloud by Aaron T. Grogg

Aaron T. Grogg — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:05:56 +0000

So what are your thoughts thus far?

Comment on Belling the Cat by Aaron T. Grogg

Aaron T. Grogg — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:03:24 +0000

I think yes, to varying degrees.

There was a time when the term HTML was known to only “webmasters”.

Then slowly, the term crept into the lexicon of administrative and mid-level managerial types, to where, now, I don’t think you could get those positions without a basic knowledge (as it once was with typing speed, and now is with accuracy in “Word Processing”).

I have also worked with product managers, of varying titles, with an extremely wide range of knowledge in code, from knowing a few terms, to actually reading tech blogs and finding some nuggets before I do!

So, yes, I think anyone in any arena of work will slowly need to know something about the web, but I think that will always be a moving target. What was once “Must be familiar with HTML” will likely become “Must be familiar with WordPress”, but will it ever become “Must be fluent in JavaScript” or “… PHP”?

Likely, I think, or will our tools simply get better, so they needn’t? Yes, I’m taling WYSIWYG-like things… ACK!