Well, I'm not the frustrated programmer, but I could use a critique of my resume, if someone would be so kind. I recently had one recruiter say that it needs to be completely redone and sent out in Word, basically, and sent me a 4 page example in Word (which of course I couldn't open until I found the MS Word Viewer, since I don't have a copy of Word)
Herbert Wolfe hwolfe@inetnebr.com http://www.inetnebr.com/~hwolfe
Objective To obtain a position developing applications or web pages in Java or C/Unix or administering Unix or Linux systems
Employment FIRST DATA RESOURCES 1997 - 1999 Associate System Engineer
Worked on the upgrade to the Warehouse Inventory Management System, using FoxPro for Windows. Designed and maintained reports written using FoxPro and FoxFire Report Writer. Responsible for weekly reindexing of the database files. Provided primary on-call support. Assisted in the initial design of a three-tier Inventory Management System to be developed using Java. Responsible for the development of a client-side GUI to interface, via RMI, with the middle tier.
IDELMAN TELEMARKETING 1996-1997 List processor
Loaded calling lists from various clients into FoxPro databases and prepared them for dialing. Wrote and used various FoxPro programs to process the data, including parsers and programs to populate fields from other tables.
BRANDON SYSTEMS 1996 Contractor
Worked at MCI, using tape machine to copy old backup tapes to newer ones
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA
Lab Monitor 1996
Assisted students working with Linux and Windows NT software
Computer Consultant 1992 - 1994
Assisted students working with software on IBM PCs running MS-Windows in a Novell network, with some also running Linux, and Apple Macintosh computers in an AppleTalk network. Answered questions regarding local software on the IBM and Macintosh computers, as well as on the VAX-VMS and Unix servers. Monitored printers and print servers
Data Entry Specialist 1993
Entered test scores into database, printed weekly reports, and graded tests as necessary
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant 1990 - 1992
Tutored students in College Algebra and Pre-Calculus, monitored tests, graded and filed tests, did other office work as needed.
Skills Installation and use of RedHat and Slackware Linux distributions, MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, 95, NT 4.0, OS/2
Hands-on experience with Apple Macintosh and various versions of Unix
Proficient in Java 1.1 and JFC, working knowledge of IBM Visual Age for Java, with some knowledge of Java 2 and Borland JBuilder
Proficient in C, Pascal, AppleSoft Basic, FoxPro for DOS, MS-Windows and SCO, Borland Turbo C++, HTML and vi and EMACS editors
Knowledge of Perl, AWK, SQL, shell scripts, Unix programming tools
Proficient with various web browsers and other Internet tools
Installation of software on various systems
Use of MS-Word, Corel WordPerfect and various graphics tools
Building, upgrading and maintaining PCs, including installation of new devices and updated drivers
Awards And Certificates 1998 Certificates of completion for ZDU courses "Introduction to Java Programming, Part I" and "Introduction to Java Programming, Part II"
1998 Certificate of completion for Priority Technologies Inc., course "Object Oriented Programming and Design with Java"
1998 Award for "Outstanding Support" from First Data Resources, Card Services Group
Education Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, 1996 University of Nebraska at Omaha
This is what I do, however, I have yet to find a tool I like completely, that will split them the way I want when generating the links sections of my home page.
The best tool I've used so far is called Columbine Bookmark Merge, which at least sorts them. I can copy the folder(s) to a new file, which is ok, but very cumbersome. I have found an assortment of tools doing a search on Yahoo with the term "bookmark utility." Perhaps one of them will do the job.
It also happens when the clock changes, usually for Daylight Savings. This is mentioned in Netscape's Knowledge Base, althoug I do not remember exactly where...
"I dont know what is up with this, but i think i speak for all/. readers by saying CUT THIS SHIT OUT!!!!!!! This might have been funny, once, but now I am starting to regret going here. This is pure BS"
I agree. April Fool's is not about being a git and making things difficult for people, it's about fooling them with minor pranks or jokes.
Also, that post is NOT A TROLL!! Get a clue, moderators. I'm getting tired of seeing posts moderated as trolls that clearly are not. 99% of the posts I see when I meta-moderate that are marked as trolls clearly are not. Most of the time they are flamebait or offtopic. Learn what a troll is, and moderate correctly, or don't moderate at all.
This place has really gone downhill in the last year to year and a half.
I've been out of work for over a year now. I have some experience with Java, doing application development, and Foxpro experience. I did a lot of work with C and Unix/Linux in college, but around here (Omaha, Nebraska) they want more experience, or they want mainframe people. I don't get the point of the local college teaching I went to teaching Unix and C, if it's not used much around here. And I'm also not willing to relocate. Makes me feel like I wasted my education.
"Let's not prosecute or even investigate internet attacks,... Of course we do need at least a billion more gun laws that don't do anything. "
My thoughts exactly. Those gun laws won't do a damn thing if they're not enforced, but then again, that seems to be what Clinton is good at, laying the blame on something else.
Actually, uu.net was pretty good about responding to spam complaints. However, I haven't had any spam from someone using them in quite a while, so perhaps things have gone downhill, but I doubt it. Also, be sure to send the complaints to abuse-mail@uu.net
Well, I like to start developing the look of a GUI in an IDE, and then tweak the source to fit my needs. It's much quicker and generally easier. than doing it all "by hand." The problem with a text-based tool generating templates is that you don't get to see what the GUI looks like as you're progressing. Want to move or delete a widget? Simple in an IDE, but a text-based tool would require that you regenerate the code and run it every time you want to see what you've done.
NWO and Operation Vampire Killer 2000?
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WTO + SDMI = NWO
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Ok, maybe I'm missing something here, but what does this NWO have to do with the one mentioned in conjunction with Operation Vampire Killer 2000? Are these the same people, or is the author just throwing out catchphrases to catch peoples eye? See http://www.hevanet.com/nitehawk/nwo22.html for more information.
And please, moderate the wrestling comments out, they're stupid, and way off-topic.
I can't say they're a "major" manufacturer, but Indelible Blue, http://www.indelible-blue.com/, offers multi-boot systems, and custom configuration, or did, last I checked.
I used VAJava at my last job because I had no choice, and it was 2.0.
To address some of your points:
The repository was a pain. Every time another developer adds or changes a class or package, you have to update your workspace for every one of those classes. Also, the administrator is the only one that can permanently delete a class/package from the repository. Plus, if VAJava isn't shut down properly, the local repository has to be rebuilt upon restart.
If I'd had a choice, I would have refused to work with it. And for a period of time, I used vim and the command line for development and found it to be a much more pleasant experience. Then 2.0 arrived, about 6-7 months into the project, and we were forced to use it, primarily for the as/400 jdbc drivers and the repository/version control.
The help system is not builtin. It requires you fire up your browser, hogging more resources, besides the fact that it sets up it's on web server to use the help system. And it wasn't much help. It's not very intuitive, nor easy to find what you're looking for, if it's even there. On more than one occasion, I could not find the information I needed in the help files.
As for features and flexibility, that's a laugh. The only features worth mentioning are the gui design tool and the debugger. However, while the gui design tool isn't too bad, it produces horribly bloated code. And flexibile it is not. You're stuck with the editor, and can't customize it beyond the colors. Oooooh. And what about switching JDKs? Fat chance. AFAIK, there is NO 1.2 support, let alone 1.1.8, which came out later.
I can't speak about Symnatec, but I've heard fairly good reviews of it from others who have used it.
I didn't even use it that long and found it crappy. For a while I did use gvim and jdk on NT. however, we were forced to use it at my last job, because of the version control system. The visual design tool's not too bad, but I find it quicker to code the stuff by hand. It's leaner and better optimized than the code VAJ generates.
He's had a website and been online for years. A friend of mine told me about it when he just had the bccentral.com domain, which is now just an alias for bruce-campbell.com
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I'm not the frustrated programmer, but I could use a critique of my resume, if someone would be so kind. I recently had one recruiter say that it needs to be completely redone and sent out in Word, basically, and sent me a 4 page example in Word (which of course I couldn't open until I found the MS Word Viewer, since I don't have a copy of Word)
Herbert Wolfe
hwolfe@inetnebr.com http://www.inetnebr.com/~hwolfe
Objective
To obtain a position developing applications or web pages in
Java or C/Unix or administering Unix or Linux systems
Employment
FIRST DATA RESOURCES 1997 - 1999
Associate System Engineer
Worked on the upgrade to the Warehouse Inventory Management
System, using FoxPro for Windows. Designed and maintained reports
written using FoxPro and FoxFire Report Writer. Responsible for
weekly reindexing of the database files. Provided primary on-call
support. Assisted in the initial design of a three-tier Inventory
Management System to be developed using Java. Responsible for the
development of a client-side GUI to interface, via RMI, with the
middle tier.
IDELMAN TELEMARKETING 1996-1997
List processor
Loaded calling lists from various clients into FoxPro databases
and prepared them for dialing. Wrote and used various FoxPro
programs to process the data, including parsers and programs to
populate fields from other tables.
BRANDON SYSTEMS 1996
Contractor
Worked at MCI, using tape machine to copy old backup tapes to
newer ones
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA
Lab Monitor 1996
Assisted students working with Linux and Windows NT software
Computer Consultant 1992 - 1994
Assisted students working with software on IBM PCs running
MS-Windows in a Novell network, with some also running Linux, and
Apple Macintosh computers in an AppleTalk network. Answered
questions regarding local software on the IBM and Macintosh
computers, as well as on the VAX-VMS and Unix servers. Monitored
printers and print servers
Data Entry Specialist 1993
Entered test scores into database, printed weekly reports, and
graded tests as necessary
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant 1990 - 1992
Tutored students in College Algebra and Pre-Calculus, monitored
tests, graded and filed tests, did other office work as needed.
Skills
Installation and use of RedHat and Slackware Linux distributions,
MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, 95, NT 4.0, OS/2
Hands-on experience with Apple Macintosh and various versions of
Unix
Proficient in Java 1.1 and JFC, working knowledge of IBM Visual
Age for Java, with some knowledge of Java 2 and Borland JBuilder
Proficient in C, Pascal, AppleSoft Basic, FoxPro for DOS,
MS-Windows and SCO, Borland Turbo C++, HTML and vi and EMACS
editors
Knowledge of Perl, AWK, SQL, shell scripts, Unix programming tools
Proficient with various web browsers and other Internet tools
Installation of software on various systems
Use of MS-Word, Corel WordPerfect and various graphics tools
Building, upgrading and maintaining PCs, including installation of
new devices and updated drivers
Awards And Certificates
1998 Certificates of completion for ZDU courses "Introduction to
Java Programming, Part I" and "Introduction to Java Programming,
Part II"
1998 Certificate of completion for Priority Technologies Inc.,
course "Object Oriented Programming and Design with Java"
1998 Award for "Outstanding Support" from First Data Resources,
Card Services Group
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, 1996
University of Nebraska at Omaha
This is what I do, however, I have yet to find a tool I like completely, that will split them the way I want when generating the links sections of my home page.
The best tool I've used so far is called Columbine Bookmark Merge, which at least sorts them. I can copy the folder(s) to a new file, which is ok, but very cumbersome. I have found an assortment of tools doing a search on Yahoo with the term "bookmark utility." Perhaps one of them will do the job.
It also happens when the clock changes, usually for Daylight Savings. This is mentioned in Netscape's Knowledge Base, althoug I do not remember exactly where...
"I dont know what is up with this, but i think i speak for all /. readers by saying CUT THIS SHIT OUT!!!!!!! This might have been funny, once, but now I am starting to regret going here. This is pure BS"
I agree. April Fool's is not about being a git and making things difficult for people, it's about fooling them with minor pranks or jokes.
Also, that post is NOT A TROLL!! Get a clue, moderators. I'm getting tired of seeing posts moderated as trolls that clearly are not. 99% of the posts I see when I meta-moderate that are marked as trolls clearly are not. Most of the time they are flamebait or offtopic. Learn what a troll is, and moderate correctly, or don't moderate at all.
This place has really gone downhill in the last year to year and a half.
Can you say cost of living?
I've been out of work for over a year now. I have some experience with Java, doing application development, and Foxpro experience. I did a lot of work with C and Unix/Linux in college, but around here (Omaha, Nebraska) they want more experience, or they want mainframe people. I don't get the point of the local college teaching I went to teaching Unix and C, if it's not used much around here. And I'm also not willing to relocate. Makes me feel like I wasted my education.
"Let's not prosecute or even investigate internet attacks, ... Of course we do need at least a billion more gun laws that don't do anything. "
My thoughts exactly. Those gun laws won't do a damn thing if they're not enforced, but then again, that seems to be what Clinton is good at, laying the blame on something else.
Do you trust MS security?
Yes 944 votes, 6%
No 13643 votes, 94%
Actually, uu.net was pretty good about responding to spam complaints. However, I haven't had any spam from someone using them in quite a while, so perhaps things have gone downhill, but I doubt it. Also, be sure to send the complaints to abuse-mail@uu.net
Don't forget Visual Age, which is written mostly (entirely?) in Smalltalk, as was pointed out on here many months ago.
Well, I like to start developing the look of a GUI in an IDE, and then tweak the source to fit my needs. It's much quicker and generally easier. than doing it all "by hand." The problem with a text-based tool generating templates is that you don't get to see what the GUI looks like as you're progressing. Want to move or delete a widget? Simple in an IDE, but a text-based tool would require that you regenerate the code and run it every time you want to see what you've done.
See http://www.hevanet.com/nitehawk/nwo22.html for more information.
And please, moderate the wrestling comments out, they're stupid, and way off-topic.
That's commonly known as random, or Fisher chess.
It's called back-solving. There are on or two, possibly more, chess programs that use a similar method when given a game to analyze/annotate.
The basic premise is somewhat simple. Start at a won position, and work backwards to a known opening/middlegame position.
I can't say they're a "major" manufacturer, but Indelible Blue, http://www.indelible-blue.com/, offers multi-boot systems, and custom configuration, or did, last I checked.
I used VAJava at my last job because I had no choice, and it was 2.0.
To address some of your points:
The repository was a pain. Every time another developer adds or changes a class or package, you have to update your workspace for every one of those classes. Also, the administrator is the only one that can permanently delete a class/package from the repository. Plus, if VAJava isn't shut down properly, the local repository has to be rebuilt upon restart.
If I'd had a choice, I would have refused to work with it. And for a period of time, I used vim and the command line for development and found it to be a much more pleasant experience. Then 2.0 arrived, about 6-7 months into the project, and we were forced to use it, primarily for the as/400 jdbc drivers and the repository/version control.
The help system is not builtin. It requires you fire up your browser, hogging more resources, besides the fact that it sets up it's on web server to use the help system. And it wasn't much help. It's not very intuitive, nor easy to find what you're looking for, if it's even there. On more than one occasion, I could not find the information I needed in the help files.
As for features and flexibility, that's a laugh. The only features worth mentioning are the gui design tool and the debugger. However, while the gui design tool isn't too bad, it produces horribly bloated code. And flexibile it is not. You're stuck with the editor, and can't customize it beyond the colors. Oooooh. And what about switching JDKs? Fat chance. AFAIK, there is NO 1.2 support, let alone 1.1.8, which came out later.
I can't speak about Symnatec, but I've heard fairly good reviews of it from others who have used it.
I didn't even use it that long and found it crappy. For a while I did use gvim and jdk on NT. however, we were forced to use it at my last job, because of the version control system. The visual design tool's not too bad, but I find it quicker to code the stuff by hand. It's leaner and better optimized than the code VAJ generates.
He's had a website and been online for years. A friend of mine told me about it when he just had the bccentral.com domain, which is now just an alias for bruce-campbell.com