To be honest with you, this sounds like sexism. I work in a department where ~25% of the technical people are women. I would say that the spread of good to bad people amongst women mirrors the department as a whole.
Years ago I worked for a software house in Dublin where ~60% of the employees were women, and things were the same there.
But to write technically good programs, you need to have a lot of experience and knowledge.
So you wrote that lengthy post to point out something that's self-evident? As for your "two types" idea, I beg to differ. Pigeon-holing people is silly.
I have been told by a couple people that at 33 I am far too old to start ANY kind of tech career (with no previous work experience). Anyone out there with experience to counter that?
This is rubbish. My wife is 33 and just started a new career as a developer. She had previously been doing international trade development, hated it, was bored silly by the politics, got out, took a two-year course at a local community college with a good reputation and is merrily writing business applications. Her previous career stood to her in that, unlike a lot of fresh developers, she understands business and accounting. I know of another developer who at age 48 retrained and has been doing that for a few years. Good luck to you!
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Many thanks to you! J2EE is what I do. I'm Irish, the IT scene there is up the proverbial swanee these days, layoffs galore. Anyway, thanks for the link...
Version 4.0 handles all of that. It's a top-class IDE, fast, stable and has a superb distributed debugger.
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Where are you based? I'm thinking about moving back to Europe (been in the US for the last few years) and I'm wondering what the market for Java developers in Paris is like.
Your DSL *does* suck as a webserver pipe. But why don't you put something other than the IBM Http Server defaults out on it, then at least the wait might be worth. Eh, Fatsean? What say you?
The proponent of eXtreme Programming obviously hasn't applied it to the problem of extracting his head from his arse.
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You can develop on cheap windows workstations and deploy the code (without recompiling) on your Sun servers.
Ha! Pull the other one, it's got bells on it. I can tell you from personal experience, having worked on a couple large projects in which Java was developed on Windows and deployed on Solaris, that it don't work like that for much beyond HelloWorld.class.
That's exactly what I'm doing right now and it works.
With all due respect, this is utter bollocks.
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Mr. Cringely claims Java is slow and buggy. I think he's mistaking the Swing libraries for the whole of Java. I concede that this applies to Swing and to Java on the client-side, but server-side Java (J2EE) continues to grow strongly.
In the St. Louis area alone, I know of several large organizations that have bet the ranch on Java and J2EE; to name a few, Mastercard, AG Edwards & Sons, Enterprise Rent-A-Car. I could go on. I am not aware of a single large organization that is going the C# and.NET route.
Nor do I know of a single developer who thinks that C# is anything other than a knock-off of Java. All choose to invest personal time and energy enhancing their Java skills.
In Ireland, where Halloween originated as "Samhain", a pre-christian Celtic celebration, we light huge bonfires, the trick or treaters must *perform* some kind of song and dance or funny routine to earn cash, not candy.
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That comic strip is a lot of nonsense.
To be honest with you, this sounds like sexism. I work in a department where ~25% of the technical people are women. I would say that the spread of good to bad people amongst women mirrors the department as a whole.
Years ago I worked for a software house in Dublin where ~60% of the employees were women, and things were the same there.
Not a mainframe and not COBOL, you ignorant little man.
This is rubbish. My wife is 33 and just started a new career as a developer. She had previously been doing international trade development, hated it, was bored silly by the politics, got out, took a two-year course at a local community college with a good reputation and is merrily writing business applications. Her previous career stood to her in that, unlike a lot of fresh developers, she understands business and accounting. I know of another developer who at age 48 retrained and has been doing that for a few years. Good luck to you!
Many thanks to you! J2EE is what I do. I'm Irish, the IT scene there is up the proverbial swanee these days, layoffs galore. Anyway, thanks for the link...
Version 4.0 handles all of that. It's a top-class IDE, fast, stable and has a superb distributed debugger.
Where are you based? I'm thinking about moving back to Europe (been in the US for the last few years) and I'm wondering what the market for Java developers in Paris is like.
Chill out, boy.
Your DSL *does* suck as a webserver pipe. But why don't you put something other than the IBM Http Server defaults out on it, then at least the wait might be worth. Eh, Fatsean? What say you?
Actually, Isreal doesn't exist. Israel does, however, and is indeed part of the middle east.
I think you need a comma or a period after "nôtre".
Amazing that someone who can't spell can write software that targets Russian vessels.
The proponent of eXtreme Programming obviously hasn't applied it to the problem of extracting his head from his arse.
That's exactly what I'm doing right now and it works.
Mr. Cringely claims Java is slow and buggy. I think he's mistaking the Swing libraries for the whole of Java. I concede that this applies to Swing and to Java on the client-side, but server-side Java (J2EE) continues to grow strongly.
.NET route.
In the St. Louis area alone, I know of several large organizations that have bet the ranch on Java and J2EE; to name a few, Mastercard, AG Edwards & Sons, Enterprise Rent-A-Car. I could go on. I am not aware of a single large organization that is going the C# and
Nor do I know of a single developer who thinks that C# is anything other than a knock-off of Java. All choose to invest personal time and energy enhancing their Java skills.
Ayn Rand is a polemicist and a propagandist.
Guenter Grass (My Century, The Call of the Toad), Albert Camus (The Fall, The Plague), Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot), Emmanuel Bove (My Friends).
Okay, I thought that, but the fact that baloney originated in Bologna threw me off. Apologies for making you explain the joke...
In Ireland, where Halloween originated as "Samhain", a pre-christian Celtic celebration, we light huge bonfires, the trick or treaters must *perform* some kind of song and dance or funny routine to earn cash, not candy.
"Boy, those two paragraphs are the biggest bunch of baloney I've seen in a while -- and I was in Germany for six months!"
What does being in Germany have to do with baloney?
This is the stupidest article yet.
Don't you mean MTV Europe?
Next we'll be seeing Dennis Hopper play golf. End times.
I hasten to add that the above is *not* a good example of Hiberno-English, just of my hitting send before double-checking spelling, grammar, etc.