We now have a completely saturated market with people that started with HTML and CSS, with very little knowledge of actual programming. With the emergence of Atwood's law, and everything javascript.. these 'jQuery experts' have little to no relevance in the long term.
Unless FEDs actually understand programming, and unless they actually apply that knowledge in their work, they are being rapidly commoditized.
This is a real issue for the career future of many FEDs, but very few seem to realize it.
I hire technical staff for a fairly large agency, and I can tell you right away that the climate is getting a lot more difficult.
This article touches on the same progression from another angle; http://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of...
We now have a completely saturated market with people that started with HTML and CSS, with very little knowledge of actual programming. With the emergence of Atwood's law, and everything javascript.. these 'jQuery experts' have little to no relevance in the long term.
Unless FEDs actually understand programming, and unless they actually apply that knowledge in their work, they are being rapidly commoditized.
This is a real issue for the career future of many FEDs, but very few seem to realize it.