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Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley () sungard com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 15:40:26 -0500
2012/3/5 Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Given my experience to date with the assumptions made by programers about networking in the following: Apps (iOS apps, Droid apps, etc.) Consumer Electronics Microcontrollers Home Routers I have to say that the strategy being used to date, whichever one it is, is not working. I will also note that the erroneous assumptions, incorrect behaviors, and other problems I have encountered with these items are indicative of coders that almost learned networking more than of networkers that almost learned software development.
I think it comes down to economics mostly. Most development jobs either do not require knowledge of networking or do not enforce the requirement. There are plenty of jobs where developers do not need to know networking so when it's a sticking point it just becomes harder to find someone that fits. This doesn't give the average developer much incentive to learn networking, even if it leads to buggy or incorrectly written code. On the other hand a senior net-eng that can code is worth is weight in gold, especially if he can spit out palatable webUI's for everything.
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- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills, (continued)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Keegan Holley (Mar 02)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Randy Bush (Mar 02)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Keegan Holley (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Keegan Holley (Mar 02)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Scott Helms (Mar 05)
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- Re: Global Naps? Doug Barton (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Keegan Holley (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Scott Helms (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills William Herrin (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Michael Thomas (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Justin M. Streiner (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jimmy Hess (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Alain Hebert (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Randy (Mar 05)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Mark Andrews (Mar 05)
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