10 Skills

While surfing through various posts, I stumbled upon this interesting piece of article. Go through the main article to have the authors view on what should be focus in terms of industry skill-sets for developers.


Skills to have as your next 5 year plan. Summary of a post at TechRepublic:

1. One of the “Big Three” (.NET, Java, PHP)


2. Rich Internet Applications (Flash, Silverlight, JavaFX)Web development (JavaScript, CSS, HTML)


3. Web Development


4. Web services


5. Soft skills


6. One dyanamic and or functional programming language


7. Agile methodologies


8. Domain Knowledge


9. Development hygiene - Bug Tracking, SCM …


10. Mobile development

Read the post in detail here.


Also if you are maverick at a particular skill and believe this going to stay...so please go ahead and post a comment on the actual blog to alter the skills list.