Oh, good article, Mike. Well, here I am, one of those "jack of all trades, master of none" type of developers. In a real sense, though, I prefer this. One of the things I've like about my position, and probably one of the reasons why I've stayed here so long, is that I get to do a lot of different things. Database development (really T-SQL development, in particular stored procs, views and triggers), middle-tier development (in the past that was COM+ components and now its WCF), and front-end development (in the past that was VB6, and now its ASP.NET and WPF/Silverlight). However, looking at it from the other side (management), they are simply unwilling to pay for more developers, period. We won't hire specialists, because we cannot afford the overhead. Does it take me, and my other co-worker longer to do anything? Of course; but that isn't going to change.