Saturday, March 8, 2008 8:49 PM
Do you care about your developer community? No really...be honest with yourself: do you care about your local developer community?
Do you care that developers are being nurtured and encouraged in becoming better and adopting best practices?
Do you consciously think about the rates of university and college grads entering the workforce and how to help them begin their career?
Are you active in your organization for pushing policies and processes that help ensure that the IT department can meet the needs and goals of the rest of the organization?
Do you look to utilize your skills and talents for local businesses and organizations, or is the only motivating factor the number of digits left of the decimal?
Do you care...do you care what happens, or are you comfortable with the status quo and coasting along, changing only when forced to?
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I hope I'm wrong. I hope that the fears that I have are entirely unfounded, and that I'm jumping to conclusions that are simply the worst case scenario based on bits of information. I hope that my friends are going to be fine...that even if changes occur they will be minor and small in impact. Unfortunately the sick feeling in my stomach tells me that I'm not wrong...but I'm still hopeful that for once I won't be let down by what I thought was what I enamored to become.
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Do you care?