The case for Pinoy Polyglots and Polytools (Created for Globe Labs Meetup)

1. Practical Pinoy
Programmer
Culture
The Poly Pinoy

2. What is Poly*
Polyglot Programming
(An established concept)
Knowing many languages.
Using multiple languages correctly.

3. Not rockstar programmers (they get the attention)

4. Spy programmers! (polyglot and subtle)

5. I Am A Programmer
I Am A Programmer
Not
I Am A Assembly Basic C C++ C# Erlang
Java JavaScript Haskell Lisp Objective-C
Perl PHP Python Ruby Scala Shell
Programmer
(looking for Philippines usage statistics)

6. I Am A Web Programmer
We can talk about the common platform that
we all use.
The Web Platform.
(The Web gets the most attention. But
popular websites and webapps are more
complicated than they look.)

7. Getting There
Deliberate practice.
Language communities.
Platform communities.
Projects.
10,000 hours to mastery.
Risk.

8. Poly Drivers
Product startups.
Choice of technology.
Not dictated by customers.
Open source code.

9. Poly Challenges
No direct revenue earning potential.
No chance to practice.
Employers or customers not open.
No time for own projects.
No focus for open source.

10. Let's Begin