As developers we all love to write code and we are always looking to improve our coding skills. However, in order to develop professional real world applications, i strongly believe that technical knowledge alone is not enough. Every application you develop or are planing to develop is either explicitly or implicitly targeted at a domain such as banking, retail, aviation etc. As developers we are obviously not domain experts and cannot for example claim to have the same level of banking knowledge as a banker/banking professional. But as software engineers/developers we need to have basic knowledge of the various entities/concepts of our application domain to enable us better understand application requirements which in turn enables us to produce good reliable software artifacts such as specs, architecture and code.

All too often i come across developers who tend to focus solely on technical aspects(i.e languages and frameworks) neglecting domain knowledge and i believe this is an error. Now i am not saying technical knowledge is not important but as developers we should not neglect the importance of domain knowledge. KNOW YOUR DOMAIN

Good advice...