{"id":4189,"date":"2014-08-21T06:26:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T06:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2014-08-21T06:45:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T06:45:56","slug":"specialization-recruiters-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/specialization-recruiters-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Specialization is for recruiters, not developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2014\/08\/specialization-is-for-insects-and-developers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his blog<\/a>, Matt Mullenweg (in case his name does not ring a bell, he is the co-founder of WordPress), reminds us of this great quote by <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?PeterMerel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Merel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A programmer should be able to fix a bug, market an application, maintain a legacy, lead a team, design an architecture, hack a kernel, schedule a project, craft a class, route a network, give a reference, take orders, give orders, use configuration management, prototype, apply patterns, innovate, write documentation, support users, create a cool web-site, email efficiently, resign smoothly. Specialization is for recruiters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We could give arguments both to support and reject his statement (you&#8217;re more than welcome to share yours in the comments below) but just to give my 2 cents on this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> This is absolutely true when you\u00b4re part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/neliosoftware.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">small startup<\/a>. Specialization is a luxury you can&#8217;t afford\n<li> Not everybody can be a specialist (or a generalist, for that matter). To be a specialist you need a certain attitude and personal skills, for instance, attention to detail, that not everybody has (e.g. myself).\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u00b4s room for both types of developers just make sure you choose the right profile for you!<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a generalist or a specialist? Should developers be one or the other?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}