My Very First Blog Post

This is my very first blog post. Isn't that exciting! No? You mean to tell me that everyone and their mother already have their own blog and I am getting on the bandwagon far too late to get any attention or readership? That's ok. I tend to distrust new things as being over-hyped. This has burned me on several occasions. Up until a year ago I refused to learn AJAX or Javascript. Luckily for me, so did quite a few other people, so I am not *too far* behind. I also thought that Ruby and ROR was a passing phase... Wrong again, looks like they are here to stay. I could go on with my list of technology mistakes, but I won't. I would like to think that I did a few things right. I learned XML related technologies when they were still fresh... that proved to be very useful. I switched to Java 1.5 as soon as it was available... another solid move. Again, I could go on but I won't. There is no need to bore you with all the things I could say that I know. In fact, I was having a conversation with a co-worker recently on the subject of "The things people claim to know on a resume". We had interviewed a candidate for a position within our software group and he had listed several technologies on his resume (including AJAX) which he claimed to know. Turns out that after a few well aimed questions his lack of understanding on the topics became quite apparent. I think it should be a Rule of Thumb that technologies listed on your resume should reflect what you actually know and have used, not what you have read a book about, or went to a seminar about, or had a conversation in passing about, etc... That has to be one of my biggest work related pet peeves.