Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:03 PM
kolbis
Guy Kolbis == Team System ???
If you are looking to be recognized by the community, you should first find a field and then become an expert in that field. From my experience, the field usually picks you rather you pick it. Let me explain it for a minute. We all have a place we work at, and at that place there are demands and fields that we must be familiar with. If you develop a Windows application and you work a lot with WPF, then it might be that this is going to be your field of expertise and so forth.
It is possible to be an expert in more than one field. Take me for example, I have been programming for almost 10 years now. I have been the road of both web and win applications. I have worked with WCF, WPF, WF, AJAX, .NET 1.X - 3.5 and etc. Still I am not considering myself as an expert in each one of those fields, but I have a very good knowledge in all of them.A week ago I have talked to a customer who called me for help regarding Team System. I have asked him why he called me for help, and he said to me that everyone knows that Guy Kolbis equals Team System.I did not know whether to be happy or sad. Yes, I do know Team System, but I also know couple of other things as well. In my case the Team System field found me and I have became a well known expert in that field. This is great, but I also work with other technologies on a daily bases as mentioned before.In turns out that "Labeling" is something that happens not just in source control, but also in the community.
If I will ask you: do you know Leon Langleyben?
You would probably say: Yes, isn't that guy who works with ASP.NET?If I will ask you about Eyal Vardi you would probably say Eyal == WCF and Guy Burstein == WF and so forth.I can assure you that each and every one of them can talk about any of the technologies I have mentioned before, but nobody consider them as experts in those fields.
Please share your thoughts...
תגים:Software Development
