The company I used to work for expected us to spen some of our working time doing RTFM activities and cross training, they even attempted to have a 2 hour period every week where employess were given to opertunity to give a training presentation to anyone how was interested.(though this fell through because other work usually interfeared with preparing the presentation) We would also get sent on basic training courses if it was a new field to the company, e.g i was sent on lotus AD1 course(very good) and was expected to do a bit of RTFM to get up to speed. Everyone in the company was sent on a DSDM and MKII function point analysis course which were also quite good. the company stoped sending people on development courses where some staff already had skills in that area becuase 9 time out of 10 they were crap and the people attending the course frequenly knew more than the course instructor. So try to get a good books policy, books work are cheep(ish) and are usually more helpfull than training courses. Cross training is very important not only does it give people a chance to give a presentation and share there skills but it also lets other employees(and the managment) know there skills. If you don't know jack shit about somthing than a short training course is the best way to start. If the company wants there employees to be upto scratch on a given technology/process then make sure they all do the course.
The degree module I took about 3 years ago, used smalltalk as its teaching language, i believe this was because:
smalltalk is very strict.
the limited syntax of small talk stops students from wandering off and doing something creative(which you don't want in an enginering profession;->)
there are clean room versions of smalltalk designed for teaching.
in my opinion these are all the wrong reasons for choosing a teaching language.
Java which i have programmed in for about 4 years gives you a lot more freedome than smalltalk, and allows you to implement most design patterns a fairly clean and efficient manner,
Good java ide's like JBuilder foundation are freely available. On the down side Java to OO and has garbidge collection which doesn't teach you about memory management, and efficiency needed in a lot of real world application, Java students will probably produce bloatware.
Visual Basic which i have used for about 8 years , well it's kind of oo, you have to be very creative to get even a fairly complex oo design patten working, the ide is good and jit compilation/interpreting makes it very easy to see what going on and change the programme flow. there are also cheep/free? versions of vb for teaching and you can always pratice at home with a bit of vba. overall VB lacks in power, consistancy and OO features and should only be considered as a freak language.
Visual Prolog (not by m$) has a reasonable object orientated structure, has a good ide, great debugger, a free personal version but you'd have to take a pot of pain killers in with you-!;
Object Pascal(Delphi/kylx),
Object pascal is a nice language to use and is very powerfull, easy to understand and feature packed. Pascal has a strict declaration sequence which is a good thing to have in a teaching language, inheritance and overloading is handled very nicely, and properties beet getters and setters hands down. Borlands IDE is great, the help is usually spot on and I can get into the flow of object pascal quite quickly.
C/C++, i have used both c and c++ of OOP, C++ is a very powerfull and possibly the fullest OO implementation i have seen in a language, features like operator overloading, abstraction and properties/closures(in Borlands version) make C++ a good language for teaching oop in full, the flexability of C++ requires a hugely mature approach to programming, and memory management, lost pointers etc could make finding bugs in students code a nightmare, having said that the only way you learn to set pointers to null, do bounds checks and declare everything cleanly is buy debugging badly written C++. There are some good C++ ide's out there CBuilder is great, Visual C++ has some nice debugging features, KDevelop is getting there, and plain on RHIDE or Emacs make reasonable ide's.
Python is meant to be a very good language, and was given a good review by mr X Microsoft. I haven't used python but I have heard good things about it.
overall,
well I'd prefer it if everyone spent 5 years learning C++, but that isn't really practical, if i was going to pick an alternative it would be Object Pascal(i don't know enough about python). It's a good clean language with some great ide's out there and you got that huge base of pascal teachers out there(there the ones with white beards).
Technicolour files are taken using 3 BW images and 3 emulsions are laid onto the film to produce a colour image. new films use kodak? colour this takes a single colour image,
you kan easly tell the differnace between the two technicolour produces a far more vivid image with better colours lower grain and far superiour chroma.
i've been using tomcat for the past couple of months and have found it to be very! buggy,
it frequently fails to recompile jsp pages when changes have been made, and can't handle includes correctly.
more worrying is that it dosn't clear out it's bufferes properly, so you can get part of a previously view web page back before the one you have requested. 'DONT USE TOMCAT' if you have any security requiremets!!!!
no my mouse turns text under the cursor info brail and produces a reliefe of any gfx's / window borders depending on the configuration. so it's not quite the same.
The EU already issues patents on software, 15% of UK patents being granted now are software-base. The debate is about the critera for a patent.
In the uk a pantent on software must be a new and non-obvious, this is a bit better in the rest of the EU where a technical effect must be demonstrated, so a disk cache program would be parentable, but a image view wouldn't be.
At the company I work for we have a pritty good flexy time policy, the start of the day is between 8 and 11 and the end of the day between 4:30 and 8(the next morning;->) were all on fixed rate pay with no over time allowence, but if any one takes the morning off they have the option of working the difference of taking it as holiday.
The mood in the comapany is fairly good and productivity is higher that in other fixed shift companies I have worked in, and people tend to work longer.
No one ever gets pissed off in the morning(xcpt with daylight saving) and kids can be collected from school. Holidays are also seen as important things to take you can tell the difference when someone comes back from holiday after working solid for 3-4 months.
If they do change your working pattern then i do them mental torture.I don't know what japanise couts are like but if there anything like american ones appear to be then your quids in.
if mandrake 7.2 in beta, last i heard it was in alpha with iso's availalbe and a planed release for some time in november, there just doing a lot of debuging and user testing to make sure there release is stable.
there's no real excuse for not getting a matrox card to work under whatever os you are using(as long as that os tells you how to write drivers).
other than lazyness (my self included here).
matrox release there chip set info and some other tools to go with it.
infact I'm sure i got an email the other day about the g800 chip set info being available soon or maby it was the g450?
anyhow were all to lazy so matrox had to write the driver themselves.
I don't see why people don't pick the correct country when developing code.
eg.
The EU dosn't have strict export licenses on things like RSA, so if i were a company/group wanting to distribute encription software i would pick the EU over the US and Japan.
like wise i read somewhere that you cant patent software in the EU (though this is probably going to change).
anyhow I only know about the EU and the US anyone have a better country to base software development in?
solus popcornius, a lesser known bacteria discovered in the ruins of atlantus, it has the key chariteristics that it produces a stickey substance not too dissimilar in taste and texture to jelly beens that have been left in a cup of wate infrom of the fire. this sticky substance jb973e strange property that when in contact with hihg levels of super hot dense plasma it turns into popcorn, thus protecting solus popcornius from and hamfull effects of the sun.
i've been programming for 17 years, and the best cure for programmers block that i've found is...
drugs,drugs,drugs lots of drugs.
beer, coffee, choclate coated coffee beans, sweets and if your realy luckey you'll get a migrane kick in at the perfect moment and save yourself some cash.
ho come when i removed my sound card did the hardware detector have 'Red Hat' splashed accross the top? that's not a totally different configuration system, it's just an extrapolated config system.
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hmmmm, are you sure your not confusing Communism and fascism, lets take a different analogy.
if you live in the U.S. which is apparently a democracy eg. laws take into account the minority as well as the majority and everyone agrees with them(kind of a pipe dream if you ask me). why is it run by a demi-god and controlled by a few elite.(slash dot, and nbc)
a socialist Linux would distribute from a free country so it could have all that lovely crypto stuff.
Linux provides a backbone from which people/applications can develope, but develop too far and no one will talk to you.
i havn't played with a 5button mounse, though i've used a 4 button tracker ball,
the one-button - three-button(three's a nice farther,son, holy spirit number).
it's a little like ui design, sure 1 button easy, easy that is for the first couple of weeks, a couple of extra buttons may take a little getting used to but it's far easier doing one button click on a >1 button mouse than series of cunning manouvers with a =1 button mouse.
why noy type a letter with a 38 button keyboard and one finger, like many a novice.
it's all about options, and where you put them. do you put them in a slow hard to access ui, menues etc... or in a fast easy to access ui like a mouse or keyboard, or both.
lots of things appear easy and usefull at first sight(hiding menu entries, 'shit head'(tm) the paperclip, the one button mouse etc....), but after a while there just a pain in the neck.
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The company I used to work for expected us to spen some of our working time doing RTFM activities and cross training, they even attempted to have a 2 hour period every week where employess were given to opertunity to give a training presentation to anyone how was interested.(though this fell through because other work usually interfeared with preparing the presentation) We would also get sent on basic training courses if it was a new field to the company, e.g i was sent on lotus AD1 course(very good) and was expected to do a bit of RTFM to get up to speed. Everyone in the company was sent on a DSDM and MKII function point analysis course which were also quite good. the company stoped sending people on development courses where some staff already had skills in that area becuase 9 time out of 10 they were crap and the people attending the course frequenly knew more than the course instructor. So try to get a good books policy, books work are cheep(ish) and are usually more helpfull than training courses. Cross training is very important not only does it give people a chance to give a presentation and share there skills but it also lets other employees(and the managment) know there skills. If you don't know jack shit about somthing than a short training course is the best way to start. If the company wants there employees to be upto scratch on a given technology/process then make sure they all do the course.
I though viruses attacked other cells, causing them to produce replicas of the virus, often with mutations and somtimes pinching generic code.
dosn't this make m$ a virus?
The degree module I took about 3 years ago, used smalltalk as its teaching language, i believe this was because:
smalltalk is very strict.
the limited syntax of small talk stops students from wandering off and doing something creative(which you don't want in an enginering profession;->)
there are clean room versions of smalltalk designed for teaching.
in my opinion these are all the wrong reasons for choosing a teaching language.
Java which i have programmed in for about 4 years gives you a lot more freedome than smalltalk, and allows you to implement most design patterns a fairly clean and efficient manner,
Good java ide's like JBuilder foundation are freely available. On the down side Java to OO and has garbidge collection which doesn't teach you about memory management, and efficiency needed in a lot of real world application, Java students will probably produce bloatware.
Visual Basic which i have used for about 8 years , well it's kind of oo, you have to be very creative to get even a fairly complex oo design patten working, the ide is good and jit compilation/interpreting makes it very easy to see what going on and change the programme flow. there are also cheep/free? versions of vb for teaching and you can always pratice at home with a bit of vba. overall VB lacks in power, consistancy and OO features and should only be considered as a freak language.
Visual Prolog (not by m$) has a reasonable object orientated structure, has a good ide, great debugger, a free personal version but you'd have to take a pot of pain killers in with you-!;
Object Pascal(Delphi/kylx),
Object pascal is a nice language to use and is very powerfull, easy to understand and feature packed. Pascal has a strict declaration sequence which is a good thing to have in a teaching language, inheritance and overloading is handled very nicely, and properties beet getters and setters hands down. Borlands IDE is great, the help is usually spot on and I can get into the flow of object pascal quite quickly.
C/C++, i have used both c and c++ of OOP, C++ is a very powerfull and possibly the fullest OO implementation i have seen in a language, features like operator overloading, abstraction and properties/closures(in Borlands version) make C++ a good language for teaching oop in full, the flexability of C++ requires a hugely mature approach to programming, and memory management, lost pointers etc could make finding bugs in students code a nightmare, having said that the only way you learn to set pointers to null, do bounds checks and declare everything cleanly is buy debugging badly written C++. There are some good C++ ide's out there CBuilder is great, Visual C++ has some nice debugging features, KDevelop is getting there, and plain on RHIDE or Emacs make reasonable ide's.
Python is meant to be a very good language, and was given a good review by mr X Microsoft. I haven't used python but I have heard good things about it.
overall,
well I'd prefer it if everyone spent 5 years learning C++, but that isn't really practical, if i was going to pick an alternative it would be Object Pascal(i don't know enough about python). It's a good clean language with some great ide's out there and you got that huge base of pascal teachers out there(there the ones with white beards).
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Best watch out for Deep vain thrombosis, and they known that long haul flights might cause DVT since day one. all Americans get your layers ready.
Technicolour files are taken using 3 BW images and 3 emulsions are laid onto the film to produce a colour image. new films use kodak? colour this takes a single colour image, you kan easly tell the differnace between the two technicolour produces a far more vivid image with better colours lower grain and far superiour chroma.
i've been using tomcat for the past couple of months and have found it to be very! buggy, it frequently fails to recompile jsp pages when changes have been made, and can't handle includes correctly. more worrying is that it dosn't clear out it's bufferes properly, so you can get part of a previously view web page back before the one you have requested. 'DONT USE TOMCAT' if you have any security requiremets!!!!
no my mouse turns text under the cursor info brail and produces a reliefe of any gfx's / window borders depending on the configuration. so it's not quite the same.
have you tried reading W3c Documentation and RFC's
selectivly block images,
cookies,
and anything from the evil add sites.
long live mozilla.
'If the Linux and Windows versions had hit store shelves at the same time'
i think they should have been in the same box 1 quake 3 arean, 1 set of data, X applications.
The EU already issues patents on software, 15% of UK patents being granted now are software-base. The debate is about the critera for a patent.
In the uk a pantent on software must be a new and non-obvious, this is a bit better in the rest of the EU where a technical effect must be demonstrated, so a disk cache program would be parentable, but a image view wouldn't be.
find out more at the UK patent officeso the phone number for my lease line is.
At the company I work for we have a pritty good flexy time policy, the start of the day is between 8 and 11 and the end of the day between 4:30 and 8(the next morning;->) were all on fixed rate pay with no over time allowence, but if any one takes the morning off they have the option of working the difference of taking it as holiday.
The mood in the comapany is fairly good and productivity is higher that in other fixed shift companies I have worked in, and people tend to work longer.
No one ever gets pissed off in the morning(xcpt with daylight saving) and kids can be collected from school. Holidays are also seen as important things to take you can tell the difference when someone comes back from holiday after working solid for 3-4 months.
If they do change your working pattern then i do them mental torture.I don't know what japanise couts are like but if there anything like american ones appear to be then your quids in.
quadrillion, havn't io heard this discussion before,
quadrillion = 10^(6*4) to 10 quadrillion = 1 with 25 zeros not 1 with 16 zeros.
but it does make the americans feel richer.
if mandrake 7.2 in beta, last i heard it was in alpha with iso's availalbe and a planed release for some time in november, there just doing a lot of debuging and user testing to make sure there release is stable.
there's no real excuse for not getting a matrox card to work under whatever os you are using(as long as that os tells you how to write drivers).
other than lazyness (my self included here).
matrox release there chip set info and some other tools to go with it.
infact I'm sure i got an email the other day about the g800 chip set info being available soon or maby it was the g450?
anyhow were all to lazy so matrox had to write the driver themselves.
well done matrox, more beer and sleep for me.
I don't see why people don't pick the correct country when developing code.
eg.
The EU dosn't have strict export licenses on things like RSA, so if i were a company/group wanting to distribute encription software i would pick the EU over the US and Japan.
like wise i read somewhere that you cant patent software in the EU (though this is probably going to change).
anyhow I only know about the EU and the US anyone have a better country to base software development in?
he could have used bug/number of people with
access to the whole of the operating system source code
or 37/few@m$ 47/the whole world.
now which is the best os?
solus popcornius,
a lesser known bacteria discovered in the ruins of atlantus,
it has the key chariteristics that it produces a stickey substance not too dissimilar in taste and texture to jelly beens that have been left in a cup of wate infrom of the fire.
this sticky substance jb973e strange property that when in contact with hihg levels of super hot dense plasma it turns into popcorn, thus protecting solus popcornius from and hamfull effects of the sun.
well there's a bateria(D. radiodurans) that can survive the levels of rad's that you get when you drop a nuke,
somthing like 1.5 million rads..
heres a good link with lots of other nutty bugs
i'm sure a few of them could survive anything that space d the sun can throw at them.
i've been programming for 17 years, and the best cure for programmers block that i've found is...
drugs,drugs,drugs lots of drugs.
beer, coffee, choclate coated coffee beans, sweets and if your realy luckey you'll get a migrane kick in at the perfect moment and save yourself some cash.
ho come when i removed my sound card did the hardware detector have 'Red Hat' splashed accross the top? that's not a totally different configuration system, it's just an extrapolated config system.
hmmmm, are you sure your not confusing Communism and fascism,
lets take a different analogy.
if you live in the U.S. which is apparently a democracy eg. laws take into account the minority as well as the majority and everyone agrees with them(kind of a pipe dream if you ask me).
why is it run by a demi-god and controlled by a few elite.(slash dot, and nbc)
a socialist Linux would distribute from a free country so it could have all that lovely crypto stuff.
Linux provides a backbone from which people/applications can develope, but develop too far and no one will talk to you.
i havn't played with a 5button mounse, though i've used a 4 button tracker ball,
the one-button - three-button(three's a nice farther,son, holy spirit number).
it's a little like ui design,
sure 1 button easy, easy that is for the first couple of weeks, a couple of extra buttons may take a little getting used to but it's far easier doing one button click on a >1 button mouse than series of cunning manouvers with a =1 button mouse.
why noy type a letter with a 38 button keyboard and one finger, like many a novice.
it's all about options, and where you put them.
do you put them in a slow hard to access ui, menues etc... or in a fast easy to access ui like a mouse or keyboard, or both.
lots of things appear easy and usefull at first sight(hiding menu entries, 'shit head'(tm) the paperclip, the one button mouse etc....), but after a while there just a pain in the neck.
ok i've just got the latest build, ssl seems fine ok, but the editors realy shot.
they must be doing somthing interesting.
posted by a live browser with a dead editor.
mozilla thge reseration.