Do you care the technology when choosing a project?

[Christian Flutcher]

I love C# and obviously I wish to use it for the project. Unfortunatly the project assigned to me is in another technology. My manager convinced me to work on that. I am interested to know your opinions on this. Do you care the technology when choosing a project?

[El Corazon]

Christian Flutcher wrote:

Do you care the technology when choosing a project?

yes, but I am also flexible enough (quiet John, really I am, so there... ;P ) to realize that what is assigned is assigned and I will do it. I have done C++, Fortran, even Cobol as well as VB and C# and Java. I am called to do a lot of things for fun, such as 3D graphics, and for many things boring and mundane. such is life. I muddle through the boring, and take the challenge of the fun things with gusto.

_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."

[Paul Conrad]

Christian Flutcher wrote:

Do you care the technology when choosing a project?

Sometimes, but it really depends more on client requirements. If they are open to any technology, as long as it gets their requirements met, then anything goes.

"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

[Pawel Krakowiak]

I prefer to work with something I know well, but I am open to other technologies if there's a viable reason to use them instead.

[mojp]

I actually prefer to use technologies i'm not expert in, wherever possible, in order to improve my skills.

[Morven Huang]

No,what you actually need is to learn it,then you'll obtain another skill.

[Roger Stoltz]

Not directly. However, as my work is on consultancy basis, my customers usually wants the job done as quickly as possible and of course the job will get done faster by using favourite tools; in my case C++. It all depends on the assignment and choosing the right tool to get the job done. Of course trying to create a website using C++ would be the wrong tool for the job. But trying to develop firmware for an embedded system using anything but C, and possibly C++, would be the wrong way. Unless the embedded system is rather large with a serious amount of memory running an RTOS with support for Java Runtime and similar, but this is rarely my case.

"It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote
"High speed never compensates for wrong direction!" - unknown

[macu]

I think it depends greatly on the choice of technology. Everyone seems to be assuming you're comparing new technologies but perhaps you've been asked to use VB3.... That can happen if the project is "fix that old piece of cr*p but DON'T rewrite it".

[Old Ed]

Yes, but it depends. I usually choose projects using a technology I'm expert in, to make the most money and/or do the most interesting work. But if I'm interested in or learning a new technology and need experience, I'll look for or accept opportunities to gain the experience.

[kjmcsd]

Yes. I do not like to work on a project using old technologies and methods. In I.T. its important to keep up with the latest technologies. Unless you are making alot of money writing COBOL