More than once someone asked me what they should be learning next. Which isn’t an odd question, specially, if you are a software developer or aspiring to be one. Software development is like a sandbox, and people from everywhere are creating new and exciting things faster than anyone can learn them. New frameworks, technologies and methodologies are invented, recycled and reapplied every day in a lot of different ways and for different purposes.

The last word from the previous paragraph is actually the keyword for answering this question that torments quite a few of my fellow developers. Unfortunately I don’t really have an answer for you, but I can help you find it.

And now for something completely different…

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where–” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
“–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”