Knowledge anywhere...

More than fifteen years ago, during my first experience as a freelance junior developer, a customer of mine used to tell me stories about what he described as the 'epic period' of information technology (up to 10-15 years before).

His masterpiece was remembering the 'ceremony' to create an expert. At that time IT was considered like a 'mysterious discipline'. When a new software or technology were released and nobody knew anything about that it was a good practice to choose the newbiest boy of the team and invest him with the authority of the 'new expert of that matter'! It could seem a great honour but it wasn't. There weren't Internet, developer communities, technical resources, extensive bibliography neither affordable training courses or skilled collegues. It was just the way to discharge a new problem on the shoulder of the youngest collegue.

I also was sometimes 'victim' of this practice in the next years, but I considered that a chance instead of a problem.

Nowadays that kind of approach is overcame. IT is one of the most thrusting sector of global economy with million of people involved in. Competence, updating, high professionality is a decisive contribute to the quality, low cost and rapid software development. Knowledge is not only a feature. Knowledge is the key.

Knowledge anywhere

Gerardo Dassi