Joel, from Joel On Software, has an interesting article about what he calls the Development Abstraction Layer. I’m not in the business world, but the whole description interested me. I posted a quote from it in #code4lib (not one that I particularly agreed with, but one that I found thought provoking) and Ross Singer commented that being abstracted away, to the degree that programmers are in Joel’s article, didn’t appeal to him at all.

It started me thinking that librarians really are generalists. This is, I think, a Good Thing™. It is better, at least (and in my opinion), than being a programmer who emerges from Microsoft (or something like it) completely unaware of anything but programming.