技術更新，永無止境

Last Friday, when I came back to Taipei main station from Hsin-Chu, I went to Tien-Long bookstore as I used to do. Look at the books on the shelf, even though they are all IT-related books, the coverage of topics is still very wide. There are more and more topics that I have never seen, though some of them turned out to be just simple concepts with fancy names after I took a browse. However, new teches and new terminologies keep emerging, and the anxiety of being out-of-dated will never end.

I think, it is the time to do some reflection.

So far I have accumulated abilities across several different fields. Most of them are above average (between good and excellent, I guess), but maintaining so many skills is very time consumming and exshausting. Evry once in a while, I think it is necessary to recheck my plan and to focus myself on a narrower direction.

以上是之前在 ICOS 無聊的時候在 EeePC 上寫的，懶得翻成中文了。總之，是想要確認一下接下來發展的方向，即使是 IT 技術這個領域，包含的技術項目依然是太廣，純技術與技術服務又是不同的範疇，應該要挑選幾個特定而且相關的技術，深耕下去才是正道。目前幾條可以選的路有：

嵌入式應用：搞 Linux kernel，C/C++，偏向與硬體整合，目前在台灣算是比較有出路的項目。
網路應用：技術上 Ajax 不可不會，.Net 跟 Java 要選一條，而想出新的應用似乎更為重要。但是，在台灣搞網路創業....
應用軟體開發：這在台灣沒什麼出路，因為說得出名字的公司不多。除了專精於一種程式語言之外，軟體工程跟專案管理也是必備知識。
資訊系統開發：台灣的軟體業比較偏向這種，生意不少，可以活得還不錯；但是因為市場格局不大，成就感跟未來性就稍微差了點。

當然，台灣擅長的製造業內也有很多需要資訊人員的工作，一些技術成份比較高的產業也需要具備 machine learning 專長的人做流程規劃；此外，金融、財務工程領域也是可以涉足的方向；當然我也可以走數值分析的老路，這個專長在台灣或許不吃香，但是海外的需求是相當高的。

好吧，這麼多項，似乎得要用刪除法比較有效率....先刪掉只能留在台灣發展的選項吧....