>PHP is a good language for certain tasks, bit it forces you to focust on all kinds of tedious minutia that could scare off newcomers to the field. The big thing for an introduction is to give people a feeling of success and the satisfaction of creating something that functions properly. Besides, developing web applications without a webapp framework is hell.
That will prepare them for the real world, where you are swallowed up in mindless minutiae, your stuff won't work well: just barely enough, you'll not get that satisfied feeling, and most web application wished they had been blueprinted from a webapp instead of a hastily-drawn diagram on a white-board in the conference room.
I find suspect a course that says Complex websites and says: dynamic language must be PHP and database must be MySQL.
I find that complex websites will have a mix of all sorts of languages, and all sorts of persistence methodologies (cookies, url-based, session, data (dare I?: beans)
Also, it will mist likely involve filesystem muckery, apache.conf hacking, and asynchronous transactions at some point (when is the dabatase updated with the new price list, credit card processing, paypal, etc)
I say what would be more fun is that each team of student work on one element, with the expectation that all works together my mid semester, and that the API and docs be properly done.
That will really kick them in the pants, as well as prepare them for the real world.
Also, teacher: stick with O'Reilly books. At $39-$49 new, they'll be able to buy 3 for the price of the compsci volume from hell at the campus bookstore.
Finally, if all they know is PHP, they won't be readily employable. Try python and pojo+framework like Hibernate and Spring. Don't do a J2EE class, please.
Technological means will not avail you, for (kr|h)ackers gleefully waste away while pobing your puny defenses.
Tattooed biker turned barristo asking l33t to either spring for a muffin or scram will work much better.
There will come a day when the coffee shop won't have to offer wifi. There will be enough of it floating in from outside that Mad Max will have to put his apron down to clear the room of black-haired technophiles.
The most qualified are already gone because they saw the writing on the wall and landed themselves sweet deals before the masses of ex-coworkers hit monster.
The less qualified get the axe.
The middle qualified are left to do the work of the most qualified (which they can't do) and the less-qualified (which they don't want to do) and they leave too, so the company rehires the less qualifed ones, because somebody has to be there to run the backup jobs.
Trust me. When you let go people en-massse, you keep only the ones that can't go anywhere else. You are better off laying all of them off.
When they ask me about such and such function, I tell them: there's a million different ways to approach a particular problem.
When they ask me about a particular acronym: I reply: Google.
When they stare at me blankly, I tell them: You've yet to tell me what you are trying to achieve in your goal to give better value to your customers and shareholders.
This is when the manager laughs and tells his goons that the interview is over, and then he takes me to lunch to discuss his career.
Remember, if they don't "get it" at the interview, they'll _never_ "get it".
What really works, though, is to give them the kicker demo of the web site you've built in two weeks that slices, dices, and makes sandwiches. There's nothing more impressive for managers than a slick demo. Well, maybe strippers.
Europe more than any other area in the world has tried to follow the American Way. (I know, I am French)
The Euro: Compete against the dollar.
Europe: Try to do with 30-odd countries what the US has achieved with 50 states.
Follow the rule of democracy until the bitter end (rise of fundamentalism).
Trust me, Europe is like America's lost big brother. China, on the other hand, is like the smart little brother that's gonna beat them both at their own game.
Just went over your posts for the past year: You need to have a talk with your boss. Call/email me and I'll talk to your boss. If they don't hire more help, walk. You don't need the money that bad.
As far as D, I think you need to stop kidding yourself. At least make a serious effort to get evaluated.
Finally, I don't know where you live, but from your skillset you can get a lot more than you're getting now.
To make a long story short: Take care of yourself, nobody else will. And that goes for all of us, so don't feel sorry for yourself, thinking nobody cares: We do care.
b) Write things down. It helps in a couple of ways:
-- Gives you something to do
-- Allows you, later, to see progress (before and after)
c) Alter something in your daily routine, like take a different road to work, or put your coffee cup on the other side of the monitor, or something like that. Repeat.
d) When you get that vacation, go on a leisurly road trip with a camera and lots of film, and no PC.
e) Write some fiction and post it on your website. (if lots of traffic to your site makes your ego feel better, put in steamy scenes)
Right, and this is why microsoft still "missed" the internet. Oh, they put out a better browser for a while, but there's more to the internet than browsers.
The whole distributed decentralizedness of the net is still lost on them.
Oh well, they don't pay me to tell them how to fix themselves, so I won't.
Sun got a little closer.
Google 'got' it. And they're reaping the benefits.
Heck no, the very best ones make it look like that absolutely nothing is wrong. They store the logs, make up traffic as usual on the logs, and reinsert the logs just before closing the door.
The best ones meke it look like the admin is remoting from somewhere to fix something, thus explaining the activity.
You should be wardriving when cr(h)acking, so Random Grandma married to an ex cop can be fingered as the "evil guy".
Oh, one more thing: "Almost all of them got caught" means that almost all of the ones they could even think about getting got caught.
If you were a hacker working for chinese intel in a room full of computers, in a suburb of Shanghai, it matters not whether or not you left traces on Amex's auths servers, since the FBI can't do squat to you.
As far as employees hacking in your systems after the fact: easter eggs under root account are better, especially if they are disguised as software upgrades that automagically overwrite the config files for said server. They could not claim you did it on purpose: you could claim that you were going to test it fully, but, hum, the company let you go before you could...
Anyway. I wouldn't do anything like I just wrote about. It would be like a prostitute telling a john he's small. Counter-productive at best.
It ain't gonna be a $0 solution anymore once you bring in Exchange.
And the accompanying backup software will set you back some more. (ya, I know, python > config files > exmerge, doing that: ain't cheap either).
Forget Bugzilla. You need some skills to set it up.
Fogbugz is for a team, and a manager. This guy runs solo, the others are not his managers.
A wiki might be good, but the best solution in my opinion is a simple webserver (even, gasp! Personal Web Server) and a set of text files or simple html.
Wikis are relatively easy to set up, but hard to manage, content-wise. So unless you have somebody else in the office that will manage that: it will be too much work.
Simple email would work too.
Come to think of it, a Yahoo group might work. (I forget, are we still supposed to hate Yahoo? Or has the torch of evil overlordship passed to Apple or Google yet?)
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Itself a cost saving: you are able to modify the software to fit your exact needs, and then keep it for many years without paying anyone.
Furthermore: you can expand your business, growing from 1 dinky store to a multinational without ever relying on a flaky vendor for your core software. This buys opportunity.
Jobs losses are nothing more than an adjustment to actual level of need.
Let's say you buy 3 gallons of milk every week, and your brother is living with you. Your brother leaves (finally) and gets his own place. Now you just need to buy 2 gallons of milk. Would you keep buying 3 just because you feel sorry for that extra gallon? No way!
Likewise the staff: They don't need the staff. Pure econ. Buh Bye.
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Licenses on continued use for existing installations.
As systems get migrated to [insert OS of choice] their revenue stream will decline slowly over time.
>PHP is a good language for certain tasks, bit it forces you to focust on all kinds of tedious minutia that could scare off newcomers to the field. The big thing for an introduction is to give people a feeling of success and the satisfaction of creating something that functions properly. Besides, developing web applications without a webapp framework is hell.
That will prepare them for the real world, where you are swallowed up in mindless minutiae, your stuff won't work well: just barely enough, you'll not get that satisfied feeling, and most web application wished they had been blueprinted from a webapp instead of a hastily-drawn diagram on a white-board in the conference room.
I find suspect a course that says Complex websites and says: dynamic language must be PHP and database must be MySQL.
.conf hacking, and asynchronous transactions at some point (when is the dabatase updated with the new price list, credit card processing, paypal, etc)
I find that complex websites will have a mix of all sorts of languages, and all sorts of persistence methodologies (cookies, url-based, session, data (dare I?: beans)
Also, it will mist likely involve filesystem muckery, apache
I say what would be more fun is that each team of student work on one element, with the expectation that all works together my mid semester, and that the API and docs be properly done.
That will really kick them in the pants, as well as prepare them for the real world.
Also, teacher: stick with O'Reilly books. At $39-$49 new, they'll be able to buy 3 for the price of the compsci volume from hell at the campus bookstore.
Finally, if all they know is PHP, they won't be readily employable. Try python and pojo+framework like Hibernate and Spring. Don't do a J2EE class, please.
Amen.
Paper mockups and pseudocode for code.
Nice try Mr. Recruiter.
go ahead then, cancel your membership.
Technological means will not avail you, for (kr|h)ackers gleefully waste away while pobing your puny defenses.
Tattooed biker turned barristo asking l33t to either spring for a muffin or scram will work much better.
There will come a day when the coffee shop won't have to offer wifi. There will be enough of it floating in from outside that Mad Max will have to put his apron down to clear the room of black-haired technophiles.
What do you mean tape it? write your passwords on your cash. On a $50. You'll never just leave it laying around on your desk.
The most qualified are already gone because they saw the writing on the wall and landed themselves sweet deals before the masses of ex-coworkers hit monster.
The less qualified get the axe.
The middle qualified are left to do the work of the most qualified (which they can't do) and the less-qualified (which they don't want to do) and they leave too, so the company rehires the less qualifed ones, because somebody has to be there to run the backup jobs.
Trust me. When you let go people en-massse, you keep only the ones that can't go anywhere else. You are better off laying all of them off.
In my experience, I interview them.
When they ask me about such and such function, I tell them: there's a million different ways to approach a particular problem.
When they ask me about a particular acronym: I reply: Google.
When they stare at me blankly, I tell them: You've yet to tell me what you are trying to achieve in your goal to give better value to your customers and shareholders.
This is when the manager laughs and tells his goons that the interview is over, and then he takes me to lunch to discuss his career.
Remember, if they don't "get it" at the interview, they'll _never_ "get it".
What really works, though, is to give them the kicker demo of the web site you've built in two weeks that slices, dices, and makes sandwiches. There's nothing more impressive for managers than a slick demo. Well, maybe strippers.
*yawn*
Except of course that it is.
Europe more than any other area in the world has tried to follow the American Way. (I know, I am French)
The Euro: Compete against the dollar.
Europe: Try to do with 30-odd countries what the US has achieved with 50 states.
Follow the rule of democracy until the bitter end (rise of fundamentalism).
Trust me, Europe is like America's lost big brother. China, on the other hand, is like the smart little brother that's gonna beat them both at their own game.
Mod me down if you like, you know I'm right.
Just went over your posts for the past year: You need to have a talk with your boss. Call/email me and I'll talk to your boss. If they don't hire more help, walk. You don't need the money that bad.
As far as D, I think you need to stop kidding yourself. At least make a serious effort to get evaluated.
Finally, I don't know where you live, but from your skillset you can get a lot more than you're getting now.
To make a long story short: Take care of yourself, nobody else will. And that goes for all of us, so don't feel sorry for yourself, thinking nobody cares: We do care.
a) You need a vacation.
b) Write things down. It helps in a couple of ways:
-- Gives you something to do
-- Allows you, later, to see progress (before and after)
c) Alter something in your daily routine, like take a different road to work, or put your coffee cup on the other side of the monitor, or something like that. Repeat.
d) When you get that vacation, go on a leisurly road trip with a camera and lots of film, and no PC.
e) Write some fiction and post it on your website. (if lots of traffic to your site makes your ego feel better, put in steamy scenes)
Ploitical correctedness at its finest.
Free-as-in-beer -> free-as-in-biscuit
Right, and this is why microsoft still "missed" the internet. Oh, they put out a better browser for a while, but there's more to the internet than browsers.
The whole distributed decentralizedness of the net is still lost on them.
Oh well, they don't pay me to tell them how to fix themselves, so I won't.
Sun got a little closer.
Google 'got' it. And they're reaping the benefits.
No, the geek version restricts access to the articles referred to, and to all the links in the comments.
I need someone to show us how to remote install debian on these machines.
That'll show the microsofties.
Ok, so that would be USans.
pronounced like this: yousons, as in "you sons of bitches"
PS: I am an American.
Heck no, the very best ones make it look like that absolutely nothing is wrong. They store the logs, make up traffic as usual on the logs, and reinsert the logs just before closing the door.
The best ones meke it look like the admin is remoting from somewhere to fix something, thus explaining the activity.
You should be wardriving when cr(h)acking, so Random Grandma married to an ex cop can be fingered as the "evil guy".
Oh, one more thing: "Almost all of them got caught" means that almost all of the ones they could even think about getting got caught.
If you were a hacker working for chinese intel in a room full of computers, in a suburb of Shanghai, it matters not whether or not you left traces on Amex's auths servers, since the FBI can't do squat to you.
As far as employees hacking in your systems after the fact: easter eggs under root account are better, especially if they are disguised as software upgrades that automagically overwrite the config files for said server. They could not claim you did it on purpose: you could claim that you were going to test it fully, but, hum, the company let you go before you could...
Anyway. I wouldn't do anything like I just wrote about. It would be like a prostitute telling a john he's small. Counter-productive at best.
It ain't gonna be a $0 solution anymore once you bring in Exchange.
And the accompanying backup software will set you back some more. (ya, I know, python > config files > exmerge, doing that: ain't cheap either).
Forget Bugzilla. You need some skills to set it up.
Fogbugz is for a team, and a manager. This guy runs solo, the others are not his managers.
A wiki might be good, but the best solution in my opinion is a simple webserver (even, gasp! Personal Web Server) and a set of text files or simple html.
Wikis are relatively easy to set up, but hard to manage, content-wise. So unless you have somebody else in the office that will manage that: it will be too much work.
Simple email would work too.
Come to think of it, a Yahoo group might work. (I forget, are we still supposed to hate Yahoo? Or has the torch of evil overlordship passed to Apple or Google yet?)
Hymnals?
We're not a choir you know...
We're more like a bunch of cats...
Itself a cost saving: you are able to modify the software to fit your exact needs, and then keep it for many years without paying anyone.
Furthermore: you can expand your business, growing from 1 dinky store to a multinational without ever relying on a flaky vendor for your core software. This buys opportunity.
Jobs losses are nothing more than an adjustment to actual level of need.
Let's say you buy 3 gallons of milk every week, and your brother is living with you. Your brother leaves (finally) and gets his own place. Now you just need to buy 2 gallons of milk. Would you keep buying 3 just because you feel sorry for that extra gallon? No way!
Likewise the staff: They don't need the staff. Pure econ. Buh Bye.
Let's not forget Sun Microsystems.