First of all, consider this. Have you reached the highest possible level (in terms of salary and in terms of who you report to)? You should try to reach to highest possible level without having anybody "officially" report to you. Once you are satisfied that you have done that and you still feel the (greedy/powerhungry) need to move up in salary and responsbility then consider moving into management.
But seriously...
Once you are a manager and developers are reporting to you, remember this: you work for them. It is analogous to a rock and roll band. A rock band hires a manager to do the dirty work: arrange gigs, deal with promoters, do paperwork, handle legal matters, etc. The artists write the songs, put on the performances and decide the creative direction of the band. You've got to make sure nothing interferes with the band's ability to do its work.
"Coffee gives me the serenity to think and the vitality to act" - attributed by my own admittedly faulty memory to Kurt Vonnegut in a coffee commercial.
I am an IDE type of guy. I love class browsers, integrated debuggers and GUI designers. Unfortunately, I have not yet found a Java IDE that works well enough to replace my favorite editor (CodeWright or vi) and command line tools (make, javac and jdb) for daily use.
Why is this? I have tried most of the major Java IDEs out there including JBuilder, Visual Age, Visual Cafe, Netbeans and even Visual J++. Most of the IDEs have some nice features but all of them are bloated memory hogs. Maybe faster CPUs and cheaper memory will make them usable someday.
That said, I think it is great that IBM is supporting Java on Linux. To support the Visual Age and Websphere products, IBM is providing their fast and stable Java VM free-of-charge under Linux. Can't complain about that!
While I'm downloading the new set of GNOME RPMs, I'll give you my take on the GNOME status report. I'd consider myself a totally partial observer here, since I use both GNOME and KDE.
I'm glad that Miguel is admitting that GNOME 1.0 was a little premature. When your stated goal is addressing the user-friendly/GUI side of Linux, your 1.0 release should be rock solid and as easy-to-install and configure as possible. They released too early. A nice script to automate the install of the RPMs (like KDE has) would have helped too.
With the level of Microsoft bashing that you encounter here and around Linux folks in general, it is interesting to see the Microsoft influences in GNOME and KDE. KDE sure looks and feels like Windows, that Display Properties dialog is practically a clone. And now, in the GNOME status report, we see that the concepts underlying the new GNOME document object model for object linking and embedding are based on Microsoft's OLE2; cleaned of "historical problems" of course. I would say "maybe Microsoft is not all bad?" but I don't want to be flame broiled.
The status report mentions that the GNOME document object model is being implemented using GTK objects. This sure would be a nice place for some KDE/GNOME collaboration. As a component developer, I would like to be able to write a component that could be distributed as a binary that would work in both a KDE or a GNOME application. Since KDE and GNOME are both based, at the lower levels on X and CORBA this does not seem impossible. Difficult maybe, but not impossible.
Is the next release of your comment "Why?" going to include paragraph separations? I got kind of dizzy about three inches and had to stop reading even tho I enjoy your style of disjointed ranting.
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Actually, Tomcat is a J2EE compliant "Web Container" so it must support Servlets and JSP, but it does not have to support EJB, JNDI, JMS, etc. etc.
First of all, consider this. Have you reached the highest possible level (in terms of salary and in terms of who you report to)? You should try to reach to highest possible level without having anybody "officially" report to you. Once you are satisfied that you have done that and you still feel the (greedy/powerhungry) need to move up in salary and responsbility then consider moving into management.
But seriously...
Once you are a manager and developers are reporting to you, remember this: you work for them. It is analogous to a rock and roll band. A rock band hires a manager to do the dirty work: arrange gigs, deal with promoters, do paperwork, handle legal matters, etc. The artists write the songs, put on the performances and decide the creative direction of the band. You've got to make sure nothing interferes with the band's ability to do its work.
"Coffee gives me the serenity to think and the vitality to act" - attributed by my own admittedly faulty memory to Kurt Vonnegut in a coffee commercial.
I am an IDE type of guy. I love class browsers, integrated debuggers and GUI designers. Unfortunately, I have not yet found a Java IDE that works well enough to replace my favorite editor (CodeWright or vi) and command line tools (make, javac and jdb) for daily use.
Why is this? I have tried most of the major Java IDEs out there including JBuilder, Visual Age, Visual Cafe, Netbeans and even Visual J++. Most of the IDEs have some nice features but all of them are bloated memory hogs. Maybe faster CPUs and cheaper memory will make them usable someday.
That said, I think it is great that IBM is supporting Java on Linux. To support the Visual Age and Websphere products, IBM is providing their fast and stable Java VM free-of-charge under Linux. Can't complain about that!
You probably don't give a FRA, but there are several GUI CVS clients, including WinCVS which is written in C++/MFC (www.wincvs.org).
While I'm downloading the new set of GNOME RPMs, I'll give you my take on the GNOME status report. I'd consider myself a totally partial observer here, since I use both GNOME and KDE.
I'm glad that Miguel is admitting that GNOME 1.0 was a little premature. When your stated goal is addressing the user-friendly/GUI side of Linux, your 1.0 release should be rock solid and as easy-to-install and configure as possible. They released too early. A nice script to automate the install of the RPMs (like KDE has) would have helped too.
With the level of Microsoft bashing that you encounter here and around Linux folks in general, it is interesting to see the Microsoft influences in GNOME and KDE. KDE sure looks and feels like Windows, that Display Properties dialog is practically a clone. And now, in the GNOME status report, we see that the concepts underlying the new GNOME document object model for object linking and embedding are based on Microsoft's OLE2; cleaned of "historical problems" of course. I would say "maybe Microsoft is not all bad?" but I don't want to be flame broiled.
The status report mentions that the GNOME document object model is being implemented using GTK objects. This sure would be a nice place for some KDE/GNOME collaboration. As a component developer, I would like to be able to write a component that could be distributed as a binary that would work in both a KDE or a GNOME application. Since KDE and GNOME are both based, at the lower levels on X and CORBA this does not seem impossible. Difficult maybe, but not impossible.
Thats all for now...- Dave
Is the next release of your comment "Why?" going to include paragraph separations? I got kind of dizzy about three inches and had to stop reading even tho I enjoy your style of disjointed ranting.