I’m pleased to report that I’ll be speaking at ThatConference this year. I’m giving a talk about professional development, entitled “The Evergreen Developer: Timeless Skills for a Long Career“.
Here’s the abstract:
Our favorite platforms, languages, and even design paradigms will inevitably become obsolete, some on shorter timelines, some longer. We knew when we signed up as developers that we’d have to constantly sharpen the saw technically, our entire careers. But there’s a whole world of skills you can invest in that will pay dividends for your entire career, regardless of the technology you’re working with. This session is a survey of those sorts of things.
We’ll talk about understanding our clients and coworkers and improving our communication with them, some ways to enhance our own productivity, and some ways we can improve our learning skills so that when we do need to learn new technologies, we’re well-equipped.
Hope you’ll check it out if you’re attending the conference.
