Dated Employability

So I went to Orlando Code Camp and I freaked myself out while I was there because I was overwhelmed with how much new technology my company was under utilizing.

I actually wrote a post about this, but lost the whole thing when I tried to save it. I was mad about that, but I then started thinking about what I wrote and realized something which I will get into later...

My company is not up to date on technology, but realistically I don't think we can use most of it anyhow because of the nature of our application. Our application has fixed pages whose appearance hardly change, there are no other platforms that use it, therefore I don't see the use of moving it over to MVC or MVVM. I can't see us utilizing silverlight because it isn't safe to use with our application from what I can tell so far (zap files).

Anyhow there are more issues with some of the technology that is out there. Ultimately I freaked myself out because I saw that tons of people are using the latest technology, but in reality this shit comes and goes. I am using web forms still, but the core of what I do is business layer technology anyhow. I am not a front end programmer, I am a back end programmer. I am better with heavy business process and logic. I like efficiency and that sort of thing. So I realized that even if there is prettier, more fluid looking tech, it really doesn't affect me because I don't really work with that stuff anyhow. Ultimately, if I need to learn that technology I can, so I am not worried about it anymore. I just need to continue practicing at home.