{"id":594,"date":"2010-02-19T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/keep-your-skills-current-and-stay-productive\/"},"modified":"2010-12-03T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T22:41:10","slug":"keep-your-skills-current-and-stay-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/keep-your-skills-current-and-stay-productive\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep your skills current and stay productive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-731\" title=\"Productivity\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Productivity-e1291070228913.jpg\" alt=\"Productivity\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/>Are you struggling to keep up with tech trends?  Are you finding a declining demand for your aging skills?  I understand the dilemma.  How do you pick up a new skill or programming language and remain productive at the same time?<\/p>\n<p>This story on <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/blog\/B100223_KeepYourSkillsCurrentProductively');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itjungle.com\/fhs\/fhs021610-story02.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">ITJungle.com<\/span><\/a> is inspiration for all those struggling to keep up with the ever-changing tech trends.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, it showcases an RPG programmer with some ingenuity.  He designs Java-based web app and recently created an iPhone application for his company.  The best part: He doesn\u2019t even know Java, yet is a very productive Java developer.  Want to learn how?  Check out the article for the whole story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you struggling to keep up with tech trends? Are you finding a declining demand for your aging skills? I understand the dilemma. How do you pick up a new skill or programming language and remain productive at the same time? This story on ITJungle.com is inspiration for all those struggling to keep up with &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/keep-your-skills-current-and-stay-productive\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keep your skills current and stay productive<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Keep your skills current and stay productive - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Are you struggling to keep up with tech trends? Are you finding a declining demand for your aging skills? I understand the dilemma. How do you pick up a new ski"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28,33],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productivity","tag-it-skills","tag-tech-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}