I'm sure you'd get a lot of exercise running away from your new friend "Bubba" at the place you will end up, if you should interface with said "eye-candy".
It's highly configurable and easy to code for. There are multiple included implementations of apps using the engine that come with it so you can keep the wheel reinvention to a minimum.
Also it supports multiple formats to be imported such as 3DS and the like.
It's not just knowledge of theory. While the they made their bed and now must lay on it by trusting a Microsoft as the provider of their development platform, it's important to point out that it's not just a knowledge issue.
One of the major issues is not that they don't know how to port their application, but that the compiler won't be around in a supported form. Without an available compiler the apps need to be ported. Now for anybody that has ever been in the hellish position of having to code a VB app, you will know that you are facing a full rewrite if you want to move to VB.NET
It would seem that XP's slip is showing in the form of a feature sticking around from the code that MS ripped off from their involvement in the early development of OS/2. That feature was in every version of OS/2 that had a presentation manager.
By the definitions that are used in the circles I am involved in a web designer is someone that mostly is designing the visual, purely front end, aspects of the web site. The web developer on the other hand involves the addition of software development that happened to involve using the web browser/web server client/server paradigm with dynamic content.
Between the two, you will be much more marketable as a potential employee / contractor if you are the developer.
Like any other software developer, you need to be familiar with general computer science topics. Also learning to think algorithmically and having a solid handle on the theories of procedural and object oriented programming and then expand into the languages that are relevant to your specialization - In this case web programming.
Another important prerequisite is an understanding of software life-cycles. Web based applications (yes, a web site is a web application) are no different than their desktop cousins in that they grow, adapt and ultimately reach a point that they need to be updated and replaced with newer iterations of code.
With respect to specific technologies, if you have solid grasp of procedural and object oriented programming, moving between PHP, Perl, Java etc. shouldn't be that huge of a leap. A prime example of this is that PHP and Perl share a great deal of like syntax.
My personal opinion on the "essential" technologies of web development with respect to languages are as follows:
PHP and Perl - If you want dynamic content you need a web language. Java servlets have a little higher of a learning curve, so I would start here.
SQL - If you have dynamic content you need to store it somewhere and flatfiles are poor for performance and developer sanity. Learn SQL (mySQL is a good and cost effective place to start)
CGI - Although CGI is a communications environment to get data to your script when executed server side, and not a language per say, you need to know how it works in your sleep. The moment you have one dynamic thing on a web site you are touching on CGI in some way and just relying on your language of choice to decode passed information to you is not going to cut it in the real world.
Apache - One other thing to mention is that you should also become very well acquainted with the behaviors of your web server. I would recommend Apache for two reasons. One is that it is readily available in an unencumbered form. Second, although there are many fanboys that may pipe up and recommend there favorite although less popular web server. Apache quite simply is dominant because it covers all the bases, performs well and quite frankly makes it so there isn't a major reason to bother with anything else. Apache has a multitude of modules available that extend and enrich the functionality of the base server platform. Knowing how to make use of them is something that you don't want to pass up.
As far as non-essentials to pick up on once you have the above out of the way:
Java - In many places where you are developing a large scale web application, a well placed java applet can be helpful. This can include real-time communications interfaces for chat functionality, or multimedia services.
Flash - I'll be the first to advocate NOT using flash wherever possible, except in some extreme cases. However there is a point to be made that knowing language is a good thing, not for just writing new things, but also for reverse engineering or porting an application to another language.
Welcome to the discrimination of the twenty first century. If you are heterosexual, caucasian, male, Judeo-Christian or even worse a combination of more than one of those you are the new target of discrimination by the liberal left.
I had a problem somewhat like this at one point. In my case it wasn't pig odor but my solution should help.
The first thing I did was to pull the systems apart and to lay each interface card separate from eachother. I then used denatured alcohol to clean each card. I did the same thing for the motherboard and the rest of the components that would be harmed by more invasive cleaning methods.
The cases themselves(sans power supplys) were cleaned using pinesol, then alcohol to make sure all the residue of the pinesol would be removed.
Once I was done, I layed everything out on an anti-static mat and aimed a high powered fan at them to air everything out for any further odor that could be detected.
This wasn't a perfect solution, but it cut the smell down by at least 95% and prevented the parts from being at high risk for damage.
If you look at the entire thesis of the Kirk character you will find that his main mode of operation and motivation is to bend the rules of the game in order to triumph over the evil of the moment. Whether it be the modification to the programming of the Kobashi Maru test, or the bluff played in the corbomite maneuver when the deck was stacked against him, Kirk always bluffed and cheated death throughout his whole career. This is in fact evidenced in the whole entry into the Nexus. His most certain death obverted by the luck of the draw as he tumbled into the Nexus, and not the vacuum of space. His character lived expecting to squeak by and live another day. This is part of the enduring charm of the Kirk character. However when finally the odds caught up with him and death was upon him, such a statement of utter astonishment that he didn't make it through this time is quite fitting.
From experience in operating multiple servers hosting many(read 10,000+) domains each, I can say that the catch all account is a VERY BAD thing.
Spammers recently have turned to more use of the random username approach and the catchall catches, well, all. This can in some cases total to more than 4500 emails a day in some cases. Hardly something you want to pull through a POP3 connection if your ISP doesn't have effective spam filtration.
Quite honestly the catch all serves little purpose if your email transactions are done in a correct manner. mailto: links have NO BUSINESS being on a web site for a company(or personal user for that matter) a simple CGI based contact form shields access from spam bots getting your email address and you can make sure ahead of time that your email address is properly configured.
Secondly, if you are emailing somebody else, most people use a context menu on the email you sent to add you to their address book. Again that eliminates the human error factor.
Also as others have already mentioned, a human will be able to read a mailer daemon response telling them that there was a mistake should they send directly.
Might I point out that the hand is in very close proximity to the arm. Given that biblical text have been translated multiple times, from one language to another, throughout the time subsequent to it's original authoring. It logically follows that the generalization of "appendage that encompasses everything below the shoulder" became the meaning and "hand" was the word selected when the most recent translation was created.
...to visualize as much as possible. When I teach math (I tutor college level math) I find it helpful to keep the attention of the student as keep them interested to visually verify any concept I can. For example when teaching solving triangles I visually measure off the angles and demonstrate that they all add to 180 degrees. Also teaching the pythagorean(sp?) theorum is helped by getting out a ruler and proving that in fact A^2 + B^2 = C^2 without just saying it's so.
I tend to wonder as to what sick minded marketroid thought that having some underage-looking naked guy would make for an interesting accent graphic to a story about virus creation.
I suppose that they think no geek has a wife/girlfriend therefore we must turn on ourselves and become practitioners of butt piracy.
...if less gravity makes bacteria more virulent, does more than 1x g's cause the bacteria to become less virulent? If so I wonder if we'll be seeing medical equipment down the road that flattens you to a spinning wall much like a specific type of amusement park ride of today does.
All in the name of curing a bacterial infection...
Slashdot Mirror
That's UNDERAGE eye-candy BTW...
I'm sure you'd get a lot of exercise running away from your new friend "Bubba" at the place you will end up, if you should interface with said "eye-candy".
Crystal Space
It's highly configurable and easy to code for. There are multiple included implementations of apps using the engine that come with it so you can keep the wheel reinvention to a minimum.
Also it supports multiple formats to be imported such as 3DS and the like.
MTW
It's not just knowledge of theory. While the they made their bed and now must lay on it by trusting a Microsoft as the provider of their development platform, it's important to point out that it's not just a knowledge issue.
One of the major issues is not that they don't know how to port their application, but that the compiler won't be around in a supported form. Without an available compiler the apps need to be ported. Now for anybody that has ever been in the hellish position of having to code a VB app, you will know that you are facing a full rewrite if you want to move to VB.NET
MW
It would seem that XP's slip is showing in the form of a feature sticking around from the code that MS ripped off from their involvement in the early development of OS/2. That feature was in every version of OS/2 that had a presentation manager.
MTW
...your calendaring application schedules you!
oh, wait...
...if you want to be a designer or a developer.
By the definitions that are used in the circles I am involved in a web designer is someone that mostly is designing the visual, purely front end, aspects of the web site. The web developer on the other hand involves the addition of software development that happened to involve using the web browser/web server client/server paradigm with dynamic content.
Between the two, you will be much more marketable as a potential employee / contractor if you are the developer.
Like any other software developer, you need to be familiar with general computer science topics. Also learning to think algorithmically and having a solid handle on the theories of procedural and object oriented programming and then expand into the languages that are relevant to your specialization - In this case web programming.
Another important prerequisite is an understanding of software life-cycles. Web based applications (yes, a web site is a web application) are no different than their desktop cousins in that they grow, adapt and ultimately reach a point that they need to be updated and replaced with newer iterations of code.
With respect to specific technologies, if you have solid grasp of procedural and object oriented programming, moving between PHP, Perl, Java etc. shouldn't be that huge of a leap. A prime example of this is that PHP and Perl share a great deal of like syntax.
My personal opinion on the "essential" technologies of web development with respect to languages are as follows:
PHP and Perl - If you want dynamic content you need a web language. Java servlets have a little higher of a learning curve, so I would start here.
SQL - If you have dynamic content you need to store it somewhere and flatfiles are poor for performance and developer sanity. Learn SQL (mySQL is a good and cost effective place to start)
CGI - Although CGI is a communications environment to get data to your script when executed server side, and not a language per say, you need to know how it works in your sleep. The moment you have one dynamic thing on a web site you are touching on CGI in some way and just relying on your language of choice to decode passed information to you is not going to cut it in the real world.
Apache - One other thing to mention is that you should also become very well acquainted with the behaviors of your web server. I would recommend Apache for two reasons. One is that it is readily available in an unencumbered form. Second, although there are many fanboys that may pipe up and recommend there favorite although less popular web server. Apache quite simply is dominant because it covers all the bases, performs well and quite frankly makes it so there isn't a major reason to bother with anything else. Apache has a multitude of modules available that extend and enrich the functionality of the base server platform. Knowing how to make use of them is something that you don't want to pass up.
As far as non-essentials to pick up on once you have the above out of the way:
Java - In many places where you are developing a large scale web application, a well placed java applet can be helpful. This can include real-time communications interfaces for chat functionality, or multimedia services.
Flash - I'll be the first to advocate NOT using flash wherever possible, except in some extreme cases. However there is a point to be made that knowing language is a good thing, not for just writing new things, but also for reverse engineering or porting an application to another language.
My $0.02
the nStor 4700 SATA series. See http://www.nstor.com for more info.
MTW
...up next re-pets. (6th Day)
Something about this is quite disturbing.
MTW
Welcome to the discrimination of the twenty first century. If you are heterosexual, caucasian, male, Judeo-Christian or even worse a combination of more than one of those you are the new target of discrimination by the liberal left.
I had a problem somewhat like this at one point. In my case it wasn't pig odor but my solution should help.
The first thing I did was to pull the systems apart and to lay each interface card separate from eachother. I then used denatured alcohol to clean each card. I did the same thing for the motherboard and the rest of the components that would be harmed by more invasive cleaning methods.
The cases themselves(sans power supplys) were cleaned using pinesol, then alcohol to make sure all the residue of the pinesol would be removed.
Once I was done, I layed everything out on an anti-static mat and aimed a high powered fan at them to air everything out for any further odor that could be detected.
This wasn't a perfect solution, but it cut the smell down by at least 95% and prevented the parts from being at high risk for damage.
Ummm... you mean "raises the question"...
See here for information on what "begging the question means".
Sorry, a recently completed english class is still haunting me.
If you look at the entire thesis of the Kirk character you will find that his main mode of operation and motivation is to bend the rules of the game in order to triumph over the evil of the moment. Whether it be the modification to the programming of the Kobashi Maru test, or the bluff played in the corbomite maneuver when the deck was stacked against him, Kirk always bluffed and cheated death throughout his whole career. This is in fact evidenced in the whole entry into the Nexus. His most certain death obverted by the luck of the draw as he tumbled into the Nexus, and not the vacuum of space. His character lived expecting to squeak by and live another day. This is part of the enduring charm of the Kirk character. However when finally the odds caught up with him and death was upon him, such a statement of utter astonishment that he didn't make it through this time is quite fitting.
"Embeded Linux"
I would much rather have my life staked on a Linux based embeded system than the current crop of MS systems mentioned above.
The real trick is pushing the vendors of the deviceds to move to an open(read: solid) OS platform.
...you seriously need to put this out for RFP (Request for proposal).
Once you've done that, look through the proposals and pick which one sounds the best.
From experience in operating multiple servers hosting many(read 10,000+) domains each, I can say that the catch all account is a VERY BAD thing.
Spammers recently have turned to more use of the random username approach and the catchall catches, well, all. This can in some cases total to more than 4500 emails a day in some cases. Hardly something you want to pull through a POP3 connection if your ISP doesn't have effective spam filtration.
Quite honestly the catch all serves little purpose if your email transactions are done in a correct manner. mailto: links have NO BUSINESS being on a web site for a company(or personal user for that matter) a simple CGI based contact form shields access from spam bots getting your email address and you can make sure ahead of time that your email address is properly configured.
Secondly, if you are emailing somebody else, most people use a context menu on the email you sent to add you to their address book. Again that eliminates the human error factor.
Also as others have already mentioned, a human will be able to read a mailer daemon response telling them that there was a mistake should they send directly.
My $0.02
SW
Might I point out that the hand is in very close proximity to the arm. Given that biblical text have been translated multiple times, from one language to another, throughout the time subsequent to it's original authoring. It logically follows that the generalization of "appendage that encompasses everything below the shoulder" became the meaning and "hand" was the word selected when the most recent translation was created.
Bring back whoever the hell played Kira in DS9. We need aggresive people who dont mind kicking ass.
Nana Visitor is the actress that played Kira on DS9. I agree that her personality would help drive plotlines on future Star Trek offering.
a patent for the act of accepting money from customers...
The idiocy continues...
Crystal Space fits the bill in my opinion.
It is being used for a couple of commercial level games from what I understand.
This is a duplicate of a previously mentioned story.
It is college level math. It's review material but covered in Math 1010 which is the colleges Intermediate Algebra class required by all students.
SW
...to visualize as much as possible. When I teach math (I tutor college level math) I find it helpful to keep the attention of the student as keep them interested to visually verify any concept I can. For example when teaching solving triangles I visually measure off the angles and demonstrate that they all add to 180 degrees. Also teaching the pythagorean(sp?) theorum is helped by getting out a ruler and proving that in fact A^2 + B^2 = C^2 without just saying it's so.
My $.02
SW
...Leisure Suit Larry: The Movie will be next...
Although I wouldn't mind Space Quest: The Movie...
SW
Creepy indeed...
I tend to wonder as to what sick minded marketroid thought that having some underage-looking naked guy would make for an interesting accent graphic to a story about virus creation.
I suppose that they think no geek has a wife/girlfriend therefore we must turn on ourselves and become practitioners of butt piracy.
Sorry I just think it's sick.
My $0.02
All in the name of curing a bacterial infection...
Just a thought...