How do you like to be introduced to a new technology?
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
I would personally try to convince others to Tech X. Like those kids on door sellings cookies? I would start off by greeting person (making them comfort. Most developers do not feel social! I don't). Then, I would start a chat about their problems in development... Level of irritation of a programmer shows how much hard he tries to solve a logic. If he gets annoyed too often he is not a good programmer (or perhaps, opposite? As I have seen many great programmers who don't get annoyed too soon). Once all of these have been done. I can easily decide whether I should waste my time on him or not! Simple. Why waste time teaching something to a person who doesn't even want to learn it (or has interest in it). Anyways, that first option is perfect. I would write an article. Interested people would read it. :)
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
It takes one hell of a lot to break that non second barrier :laugh: I believe there are 2 types of developers, those who have a comfortable and deep knowledge of their day to day tools, and those who are constantly looking for "the latest" tool/tech/trend. Getting the attention of the first is almost impossible, keeping the attention of the second is just as difficult. There is a third group who will vacuum up the new tech, play with it and then write articles about it, these are the people you need to engage. Thankfully I live in the first group so bugger off! I think getting some well respected person/organisation to expound the benefits would be about the only way I think you could get through to the first group.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
+ Search for bloggers who blog(ged) about Tech Y and Z, present them Tech X and hope they'll blog about it. + Ask online and print media if they're interested to present it (if that's not what you meant by 1). + In case I'm Chris Maunder, ask in the Lounge who would be willing to write an article about it and/or blog about it and to tell their colleagues :-D
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
I have to have a need for something, and then I will start researching, and I prefer reading articles for that, either that or download an e-book and read it on my tablet.
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
I like being introduced to new technology at a resort hotel in Hawaii.
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
- See a jaw-dropping two minute video highlighting the important wows of this technology. - Follow up with a few short video series (7-10 mins each), to go a little beyond "Hello World". - Read articles, if I'm serious to pursue.
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I like being introduced to new technology at a resort hotel in Hawaii.
I prefer to put a dollar on the edge of the stage and have it find me later.
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
A combination of 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6. They aren't exactly either-or situations :)
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Regards, Sander
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We're developers; when we need something, we develop it ourselves. That way we get exactly what we need. Rather than something else that someone else thinks we might need -- that provides only the most basic least-common-denominator functionality. I'm not interested in any of Technology X, Y, or Z. I have no patience for so-called "developers" who run off to the 'net to look for solutions to every little challenge they face.
I understand that you do your development by drawing on a cave wall. We all use technologies developed by others, the only issue being the mix of make vs. buy. My personal guidelines are as follows: 1. Language or compiler updates should be researched only at the beginning of a project or at major version numbers. 2. New libraries or updates to existing libraries should be researched when a large feature is to be implemented. 3. Small features should be implemented in-house, unless a library chosen for other reasons provides the exact required functionality. 4. Know your Standard libraries - never write code that duplicates a function/class provided by the library!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
Dinner and a nice bottle of wine, followed by a good chat with a glass [or seven] of brandy.
veni bibi saltavi
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
Do you want to know how I like to introduced to a new technology, or how I like to introduce new technologies? Your OP seems to be asking both, but sticking to the subject line, I like to be dropped in the deep end (you can probably call this a depth-first traversal), under pressure. Like I have been this last week on an Angular project, where I had previously only read a very tiny bit about Angular. Left to my own devices, the perfectionist in me tries to learn everything properly first, where when I really must deliver, I might even skip trying to read and analyse code, and just jump in and run it to see how it works, and what effects my changes make. I then take a more in depth, breadth-first, traversal in my own time, picking maybe one cross cutting aspect of the new tech, and explore that speculatively.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Dinner and a nice bottle of wine, followed by a good chat with a glass [or seven] of brandy.
veni bibi saltavi
Then you start to work?
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Then you start to work?
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON
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veni bibi saltavi
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Then you start to work?
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON
Simon_Whale wrote:
Then you start to work?
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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
Your question seems to me to have more than one "dimension," but the "primary flavor" I experience in it seems to be about how you might persuade others to become motivated to use a new technology; secondarily, the question seems to be about what motivates you to be willing to try a new technology. What motivates me to examine new technologies are: 1. the opinions of folks I respect; an example might be a mention of some interesting technology here on CP by Marc Clifton, or Pete O'; or, a mention on Scott Hanselman's e-mail newsletter. 2. something "catches my eye" in the e-mail newsletters I sub to, like CP's Insider News: Kent has a keen sense of what might interest me, I find ... of course, I suspect he's also doing what he does for others as well :) 3. sometimes I get "fed up" with some existing techno-kerfluffle I am using and go actively looking for a replacement: that's how I found the WinForms TreeView control (IntegralUI TreeView) from Lidor Systems several years ago; I was at wit's-end trying to bend that mangy dog of a TreeView supplied by Sauron of Redmond to my will. How might I persuade others to adopt a new-thing-under-the-sun: ? : oh boy, I think I'm lucky I haven't faced that challenge. If said "new-thing" was a commercial product (expensive) I'd sure be looking for a way to try-out a test version, or, if possible, to have a demo by the company ... that's very easy for me to say, but, possibly, very difficult for others to actually do if your business is keeping something going that is large and very complex and which does not lend itself to experimentation, or replication for testing. cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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We're developers; when we need something, we develop it ourselves. That way we get exactly what we need. Rather than something else that someone else thinks we might need -- that provides only the most basic least-common-denominator functionality. I'm not interested in any of Technology X, Y, or Z. I have no patience for so-called "developers" who run off to the 'net to look for solutions to every little challenge they face.
This is the dumbest thing I have heard all day. I truly hope you were joking. :sigh:
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...and I don't mean formally introduced and handed a business card. We're having a debate in the office about a technology. Let's call it Technology X. Technology X solves a bunch of issues with its main competitors: Technology Y and Technology Z. However, it's about as exciting as laundry detergent. So given that it's hard work learning new technologies, and given there's roughly 5,639 new versions of any given technology coming out daily, and given that we're all way too busy trying to actually get work done, how do you introduce a new way of doing the same thing to a developer? Especially when it can truly save that developer a lot of time (and money) Do you: 1. Write an article about technology X and hope someone reads it? 2. Have a webinar and hope someone has 30-60 mins to have you on their second monitor while they have lunch? 3. Write an article about Technology Y and Z, and then introduce Technology X and show how it solves the issues with Y and Z 4. Make a post in an online forum. (and risk the wrath of the Spam button - this one is obviously a tricky one) 5. Scout the question and answer forums and when you see a question best answered with "Use Technology X", jump in 6. Make some posts on your Facebook page, your Google+ page, or Tweet about it 7. Post a blog and just hope others searching the same issues you've found that Technology X solves find it 8. Sky writing 9. Something else Getting our attention is *hard*. I tend to follow a new technology lead if I can almost immediately "get" why it's useful to me, but I also have about a nano-second I'm willing to commit to something unknown that sounds like something else already around. So what works best for you? How do you prefer to hear about new stuff?
cheers Chris Maunder
If I read about a technology that I think may be useful for what I am attempting to accomplish, I will investigate it and if I find it easy to implement, I’ll use it. This also applies to existing technology. Sometimes language “X’ or device “can’t live without” already has the solution I need, already tested and worked out. Kind of like the best person for the job gets the job.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
