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alot of the time your knowledge comes from experience, thus more experience, generally means more knowledge.

yes knowledge comes from experience, but more experience may not necessarily mean more knowledge - that's the point of this post i think :)

I feel the comparison to a doctor is a bit spurious... Doctors have to go through many years of training, and are under the watchful eyes of regulatory bodies.

Developers require no such training, or have no such bodies monitoring their work.

I agree with your point, but I just feel this comparison cheapens this article...

yes the comparison with doctors is a bit exaggerated, but as I said the i think the main point is something else which I agree with :)

troll

I guess he's not intelligent enough for a troll.

Aren't trolls supposed to fill the sites and boards with tons of thrashing or spammy content? To me it looks quite different from submitting developer related links on a developer link aggregator. Especially taking into account how many of submitted ones are valued enough for getting to the front page.

Knowledge does come from experience but experience w/ out the continual learning process is hazardous.

I found this article another tiresome, over opinionated, one sided troll, so I unsubscribed. I'll look for more professional, considered articles from people not trying to sell something.

you are COMPLETELY right!
experience with the wrong knowledge just reinforces the wrong practices.

One of the silliest posts I've read for long. Of course experience is not everything. But neither is knowledge - especially in our field were yesterday's knowledge is often no knowledge at all anymore - just garbage in your head. Experience is in my eyes a prerequisite to use your knowledge efficiently, to know when to drop some of the knowledge you acquired, to recognize which new knowledge is worth acquiring. But of course experience can also make you lazy - the "I'm experienced in doing things this way, so they must be done this way" attitude. But only stupidity and/or inexperience ;-) can conclude that "Professionalism = Knowledge First, Experience Last". Professionalism = Knowledge AND Experience.