Foundation Stone #30 - Keep Widening the Knowledge
It is easy as a developer get glued on to the projects that the company is putting him/her in. Particularly if you are in a big multi national company, you would be part of a big project that will run for years (and probably had been running for years) and one might be put into maintaining it or enhancing it. In such situations a developer’s knowledge might get confined to the project and the technology surrounding it. This is like a slow poison bringing the developer to narrow down his/her knowledge. It is important to keep widening the knowledge making sure that there is something else to achieve, accomplish and learn in the process. One thing that could help developers to keep themselves updated and to increase their knowledge is to freelance or contribute to open source projects. One could even take up a new technology and could use the open source projects as a means to learn and implement.
This post is part of the “Foundations” series of posts.
