I am on an advisory board for a local college and at the last curriculum meeting we had some of what you mentioned in the article “10 Skills a developer will need in the next 5 years” come up, but the predominent subjects were enterprise database design, implementation, administration and general network security. As a database administrator I continually deal with issues caused by poor database design due to a general lack of understanding of how enterprise databases work. Initial database configuration, connection methodology, network security, disaster recovery, and ongoing maintenance are all skills where a developer should have proficiency. My last 10 years of experience in the industry has proven that this is not the case.
I’m assuming that this was considered too fundamental or axiomatic for the purposes of Justin’s article, but I would add Enterprise database design, and enterprise security for a total of 12 skills.
