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Re: How to develop without an IDE?

From Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: How to develop without an IDE?
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Date 2012-04-24 14:07 -0300

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On 12-04-24 01:07 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:24:14 -0300, Arved Sandstrom
> <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> I'll tell you what no Java developer's career depends on: being able to
>> write a makefile to build a Java project.
> 
>      Does someone's career depend on being able to use Ant?  If it
> does, then why can he not simply pick it up when he needs it?
> 
>      I prefer to learn to use tools that will be of use to me in
> preference to those that only might.  There is so much software out
> there that I have to budget my learning time to items which will give
> me a return.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Gene Wirchenko

Does someone's career - let's say current job - *depend* on knowing Ant?
I doubt it, not in and of itself. But if I had someone working for me as
a Java developer, unless they were an absolute newbie I'd look askance
at them not knowing certain things by a certain point in their
professional development.

I have worked with intermediate Java developers - people who have used
basically nothing but Java in their entire career - who don't know Ant,
don't know Maven, don't know Ivy, don't know Hudson/Jenkins or any other
CI system, only know JUnit - sort of - out of all the available test
frameworks, aren't up to speed on any Java API except for the ones that
they've had to use for work. You then come to find out that they barely
know XML: no knowledge (or very deficient knowledge) of XSLT or XPath,
for example. You come to find out that they don't know Powershell on
Windows, bash or sh or ksh on UNIX, or even DOS-type batch files. They
have only superficial knowledge of regular expressions.

The list goes on and on, and I've worked with plenty of intermediate
(and some senior) developers who have a poor grasp of *everything* I
just listed. And more.

So is not knowing Ant a kiss of death for some Java developer's career?
Not by itself, probably not. But it's, in my experience, a strong
indicator that they've probably neglected whole swathes of stuff they
should be conversant with.

I have a great deal of tolerance for someone who has to learn something
unexpected. We all have to do that on occasion. I have considerably less
tolerance for an intermediate or senior developer who is _routinely_
having to "pick up" skills just when they need it. They're doing it on
company time and client time.

AHS
-- 
A fly was very close to being called a "land," cause that's what they do
half the time.
-- Mitch Hedberg

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