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Getting Old(er) in Tech: Staying Relevant
Summary
Don Denoncourt talks about how to stay relevant in the tech industry, ways to keep coding skills sharp, no matter how old we are, perspectives for technical growth and how to be a lifelong learner.
Bio
Don Denoncourt is Lead Code Wisperer at Corgibytes. He has been a developer for over 3 decades. He started as a developer coding RPG and Cobol on punch card machines. In the early 90s, he moved on to C and C++. In the 2000's he was wooed by dynamic languages like Groovy, PHP, Ruby and Rails. For a three year stint, he was a technical editor. He has published several books and hundreds of articles.
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