Stepping Up Your Technology Game – Defining Technology Instead of Merely Using It

Once you are leading your career and are helping people around you to transform their lives, you can invest in growing your career by impacting the technologies that you use. This has the potential to transform the lives of millions of developers around the globe and will also help you grow inside your company and give you the visibility to grow outside of your company. This chapter will show you how.

We will discuss the following in this chapter:

• How technology is standardized and what it has to do with your career.
• Identifying technologies and organizations. Learning about your programming language – how it is standardized, the basics, the features, the classes, pre-defined libraries and functions, the threading model, the intricacies of the language, and the ecosystem.
• Getting involved with standards organizations – the conventions and best practices and common...