Works very well for me. Shows me my flights & flights of relatives and status of their flights. Shows me meeting reminders and traffic to there. Also, tracks packages that come through on email along with hotel bookings.
Interesting question, I feel that if you are good in a particular area (Say php / css / js / html) then you will find each new component / framework actually simplifies your life or makes it easier. The trouble is if you are more of a heavy js developer and are typically labelled as a web developer. Then you feel like you have to know about SASS (css) / HTML5 video standard / Scala and everything else related to the web field!
I think that as web development grows and matures, it will finally have multiple experts who need to work together and with each expert having no problem in catching up or using the latest paradigm in their area.
I would recommend you specialize / try and learn whatever you are good at.
> I feel that if you are good in a particular area (Say php / css / js / html) then you will find each new component / framework actually simplifies your life or makes it easier.
I disagree. Frameworks/components are written by human beings; some are a good idea, others a bad idea, and any a complete mix. I would hazard a guess (stats was never my strength) that 50% of new frameworks are a bad idea and/or complicate matters down the road.
> I think that as web development grows and matures, it will finally have multiple experts who need to work together and with each expert having no problem in catching up or using the latest paradigm in their area.
We're there already. But the pace of change means keeping up is still an issue (esp once you have partner/family and don't want to spend evenings/weekends playing/learning) and actually you need to see across areas for some topics (front-end performance being one).
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