This is from a discussion that I had earlier on twitter with @vinnievivace & @Iworkedon.
I think that I felt a bit paranoid “back in the day” checking on credentials for a Flex Developer. One of my points of concern was that companies were increasing the requirements for Flash/Flex developers. It’s funny to me (no laughter happening) that after years in the industry and after having built apps for several fortune 500 companies that recruiters are asking me for Java/J2EE experience and whatever else. I always had an awful feeling that it would come to this but that doesn’t mitigate the bitterness.
I believe strongly in what the Flash platform will become- I also believe that this transition will take place at the expense of the population that carried Flash through the period where it was referred to s Java’s Baby brother. At work lately you don’t hear about the wow factor-you will,however have meeting about 508 compliance and SEO. To me those feel very Java.
I plan to extend this post but I wanted to put out a page for discussion of a gripe that I’ve kinda kept to myself for a long time. I discussed this with Tom from Unity a while back. Unity is still at that lemme show you some hotness phase- at some point it’s inevitable that “Big Company.com” is going to want not our hotness but our reassurance-then we’ll have to move to design pattern A and B.
To underscore my point on all of this- I was willing to learn design pattern x and Y (feel like an algebra course) and I understand (and respect) company’s needs to feel safe- but I see a lot of qualified people getting sidelined because they didn’t go neck deep in Java Enterprise-including myself.
I’ll clean this post up tomorrow -but the way that contract related conversations go nowadays is like a personal nightmare. How hard is it to explain to a company that I don’t wanna learn all kinds of Java but I do understand the principles of pluging in to a Service Oriented architecture that was supposed to be language agnostic anyway? Yep- As I thought- Unity here I come.
