that is a good point.
I support Mono for several reasons:
C# is a very good language
Creating Windows(like) GUI in C# is a pleasure
In a all-out struggle of good vs. evil it is wise to hedge the bets and Sun (and therefore Java) seems to be on decline right now.
But having Ruby or Python grow up to be an alternative to.NET would have been much better choice.
Ruby Application Server anyone?
I guess the strategy of hiring the winners of the programming contests is finally paying off;-)
Re:That's nice and all but the code isn't the prob
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What's Wacky with Google?
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what if such OSS search engine is massively distributed?
Since by its nature search engine is not a transactional application, it can be effectively broken into thousands and thousands of semi independent pieces (just like real Google works now).
Anyone aware of Distributed Open Source Powered-by-people search engine project?
Jabber protocol seems conceptually very close (user agent talking to server, server talking to server, server taling to other UA) but Jabber IMHO is somewhat better organized (more XMLish).
Granted, business-wise Sun is in big trouble and I am tempted to say - good riddens. If you cannot compete, cannot see and exploit the new trends - byebye. When it costs less to get Xeon based server than one piece of Sun hardware (like disk controller), no reality distortion field can help.
But don't forget Microsoft. Sun is the ONLY company who stands up to Bill. Sun is the only company offering high-end Unix and not offering Windows on their servers. Sun is the only company offering viable Office alternative to businesses. And Sun is the keeper of Java - the only alternative to.NET on the enterprise server-side.
Demise of the Sun will be the great setback to all the anti-MS forces in the market including Open Source. In addition to SCO trouble, this may actually stop Open Source revolution or slow it down.
me too. Good professional people.
the only problem was they are slow. I typically would find job thru someone else before Matrix even got me an interview.
Indeed. With all those fat cats in the White House...
Now if I got your attention, lets take care of this crap.
What outsourcing has to do with this particular guy's employment problems? Businesses _naturally_ will pick the route of the less expense. Outsourcing of low level programming jobs is a natural thing, like gravity or sunlight.
Updating of your skills IS going to help and this guy's resume is not a good example. He had development jobs in 60s, 70s and 80s. I would expect to see a senior position and a hands-on management position later on on his resume. Instead, it is CGI crap and web development. It is this guy's fault and Evil Republicans have nothing to do with it.
Ever heard of survival of the fittest? To be fit as a developer today, you need to be sharper than others, learn the new things all the time (open source is good way to do it but even better, start your own company and try to roll a product out. You will fail but the experience is priceless).
If you are Java guy (not like Dvorkin, the real hard core EJB and OOP guy), look at dot NET, see what they got right. If you are a Oracle DBA, learn Postgres because your 120K a year days may be numbered. The point is - ADJUST, control the situation and when the outsourcing comes you will end up directing and managing them Indians instead of flipping burgers and complaining about social security.
I worked with IT director who (among other things) leased 8 port hub for $75 a month for 4 years from a company he (as it turned out later after he quit) had financial interest in.
Good points.
What about "practical uses" of flying 100 people along the ballistic trajectory from London to Tokio in about 60 minutes?
Surely the first company to master that will dwarf both Microsoft and Boeing.
How about moon-orbiting space hotel? We CAN build one now and there WILL be people willing to pay for the trip.
I am not so sure about asteroids mining but people keep mentioning that. But definitely there is something out there worth prospecting.
What about being able to deal with incoming asteroid or comet? That is very practical skill we need to master.
Russians:
one in 196?. New experimental craft (soyuz) had problems with chutes / landing systems
three in 1971. Crew of the world's first space station. Valve of the Soyuz landing module opened while they were still in space.
Americans:
Three in 196?. Fire on Apollo 1, still on the pad
Seven on Challenger in 1986
Seven on Columbia in 2003
I said it before and I will say it again...
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NASA's New Space Wheels
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There must be some kind of commercial incentive to go to space. The moment the private business steps in, there will be many various designs tried, built and flied. The best one will win.
Space needs a race similar to what happened in aviation in 1900-1920s. Everyone got excited, startups were popping up left and right, people WANTED to fly.
Government bureucracy with no incentive to do the thing right is not a way to progress in space. Any congressmen reading/.?
I personally am looking forward to Xprise launches. Maybe then public and business will take notice.
No I am not like that, I know the type. I push OSS only when it makes sense business wise.
For example, peformance was an issue. I demonstrated that the app runs 12 times faster on Tomcat than on currently used vendor O app server. And scales better. And deploys and runs without errors. Does not matter - no way.
I am sitting in the middle of large information-centric US agency right now and I concur:
OSS is adopted here very slowly.
I have been plugging in OSS solutions for long time but most of the time they look at me like I am an idiot. It appears that problem is there is not a single recognizable vendor behind OSS products. Apache, Tomcat even JBoss have no chance at the moment. There are big bucks involved and large "traditional" vendors are like sharks circling around government contracts.
I think OSS and government are a natural fit but I am not sure how glass ceiling can be broken. If anyone has experience pushing OSS to US government, please share.
What they mean is the fundamental problem of mapping the OO way of thinking to RDB way of thinking.
for example, in "objects" you have Customer object which may hold collection of Orders so you can have nice way of working with it: myCustomer.getOrders().iterator() and so on.
In reality that Customer and those Orders got to be stored somewhere so the questions arise: when you read customer from some storage (customer table?) do you also need to read all of his Orders and populate collection? Or just read order IDs and fill them as they needed (lazy initialization)? What happens if one of the orders is changed externally after you already associated it with your customer object? What if you have a nice deep Object hierarachy and you read top most object, are you going to drag the entire object graph in memory?
What about the queries: objects enforce looking at the data along fixed paths, like customers to orders not the other way around. It is very common and unfortunate that in real life business people want to query data in new and elaborate ways - "find customers who placed orders on widget23 and where on average more than 60 days late in paying their invoices".
There are tons of issues like that and there is no easy way to handle it.
I personally believe that this problem is due for a major breakthrough. many people are working on the frameworks, eventually one of them will rule.
When I was working for major major defense contractor (you know who you are), my favorite categories used in the time-tracking application to spice up the results were UCOT (uncompensated overtime, pronounced "you-caught") and NIIA (non injury industrial accident, basically when you got cold and stayed home).
You may feel confused about whether to pursue a new certification or degree.
I am in the middle of Sun J2EE cert and not sure why in hell I am spending my time on it!
Pay attention to ideas that come to you in the middle of the night. Embrace new ideas and try to look at your work from new perspectives.
Just last night I got up and while taking care of things was thinking of a new P2P protocol that will change the world when I get to implement it!
Whatever you do, you will succeed if you play strictly by the rules. Don't take foolish chances -- stick to established protocols in your work environment.
I am fighting the strong urge right now to tell my bosses how stupid this project is!
Travel and relationships with people far away are emerging as huge trends in months to come.
I just did 1200 miles road trip to F&F last weekend!
It is big - my family and I are protected
It has a lot of utility in it
If some kid cannot handle / afford one - not my problem
If some asshole thinks of Java as way to script web pages and does not care / understand J2EE and Objects - he just made big unemployable ass of himself.
Java makes my objects sing.
where participants are locked up with just vi and gcc, every day are forced into new combinations for pair programming and every week they vote one out. Voted out ones become QA.
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bravo.
you just planted image in my head that will take some time to get rid of.
For a second I thought this was a person's name. ./ grammar, everything is possible.
Given
I support Mono for several reasons:
C# is a very good language
Creating Windows(like) GUI in C# is a pleasure
In a all-out struggle of good vs. evil it is wise to hedge the bets and Sun (and therefore Java) seems to be on decline right now.
But having Ruby or Python grow up to be an alternative to .NET would have been much better choice.
Ruby Application Server anyone?
It should have some kind of semi-automated way to filter out such villains (like slashdot does :-)
I guess the strategy of hiring the winners of the programming contests is finally paying off ;-)
what if such OSS search engine is massively distributed?
Since by its nature search engine is not a transactional application, it can be effectively broken into thousands and thousands of semi independent pieces (just like real Google works now).
Anyone aware of Distributed Open Source Powered-by-people search engine project?
should produce about 50% error rate or we are really in trouble ;-)
Anyone has opinions on that?
But don't forget Microsoft. Sun is the ONLY company who stands up to Bill. Sun is the only company offering high-end Unix and not offering Windows on their servers. Sun is the only company offering viable Office alternative to businesses. And Sun is the keeper of Java - the only alternative to .NET on the enterprise server-side.
Demise of the Sun will be the great setback to all the anti-MS forces in the market including Open Source. In addition to SCO trouble, this may actually stop Open Source revolution or slow it down.
Makes me worry.
me too. Good professional people.
the only problem was they are slow. I typically would find job thru someone else before Matrix even got me an interview.
Now if I got your attention, lets take care of this crap.
What outsourcing has to do with this particular guy's employment problems? Businesses _naturally_ will pick the route of the less expense. Outsourcing of low level programming jobs is a natural thing, like gravity or sunlight.
Updating of your skills IS going to help and this guy's resume is not a good example. He had development jobs in 60s, 70s and 80s. I would expect to see a senior position and a hands-on management position later on on his resume. Instead, it is CGI crap and web development. It is this guy's fault and Evil Republicans have nothing to do with it.
Ever heard of survival of the fittest? To be fit as a developer today, you need to be sharper than others, learn the new things all the time (open source is good way to do it but even better, start your own company and try to roll a product out. You will fail but the experience is priceless). If you are Java guy (not like Dvorkin, the real hard core EJB and OOP guy), look at dot NET, see what they got right. If you are a Oracle DBA, learn Postgres because your 120K a year days may be numbered. The point is - ADJUST, control the situation and when the outsourcing comes you will end up directing and managing them Indians instead of flipping burgers and complaining about social security.
just curious:
if you started Java server-side development 7 years ago (1996?), what server side technology you were using back then - Jigsaw, GNUJSP?
I worked with IT director who (among other things) leased 8 port hub for $75 a month for 4 years from a company he (as it turned out later after he quit) had financial interest in.
Good points.
What about "practical uses" of flying 100 people along the ballistic trajectory from London to Tokio in about 60 minutes?
Surely the first company to master that will dwarf both Microsoft and Boeing.
How about moon-orbiting space hotel? We CAN build one now and there WILL be people willing to pay for the trip.
I am not so sure about asteroids mining but people keep mentioning that. But definitely there is something out there worth prospecting.
What about being able to deal with incoming asteroid or comet? That is very practical skill we need to master.
Russians:
one in 196?. New experimental craft (soyuz) had problems with chutes / landing systems
three in 1971. Crew of the world's first space station. Valve of the Soyuz landing module opened while they were still in space.
Americans:
Three in 196?. Fire on Apollo 1, still on the pad
Seven on Challenger in 1986
Seven on Columbia in 2003
There must be some kind of commercial incentive to go to space. The moment the private business steps in, there will be many various designs tried, built and flied. The best one will win. /.?
Space needs a race similar to what happened in aviation in 1900-1920s. Everyone got excited, startups were popping up left and right, people WANTED to fly.
Government bureucracy with no incentive to do the thing right is not a way to progress in space. Any congressmen reading
I personally am looking forward to Xprise launches. Maybe then public and business will take notice.
No I am not like that, I know the type. I push OSS only when it makes sense business wise.
For example, peformance was an issue. I demonstrated that the app runs 12 times faster on Tomcat than on currently used vendor O app server. And scales better. And deploys and runs without errors. Does not matter - no way.
I am sitting in the middle of large information-centric US agency right now and I concur: OSS is adopted here very slowly.
I have been plugging in OSS solutions for long time but most of the time they look at me like I am an idiot. It appears that problem is there is not a single recognizable vendor behind OSS products. Apache, Tomcat even JBoss have no chance at the moment. There are big bucks involved and large "traditional" vendors are like sharks circling around government contracts.
I think OSS and government are a natural fit but I am not sure how glass ceiling can be broken. If anyone has experience pushing OSS to US government, please share.
PgAdmin is the Windows program for Postgres admin.
I have been developing on Windows running Postgres under cygwin and it works just fine.
This is beta of version 7.4. Postgres has been stable and running production quality things for lo-ong time.
for example, in "objects" you have Customer object which may hold collection of Orders so you can have nice way of working with it: myCustomer.getOrders().iterator() and so on.
In reality that Customer and those Orders got to be stored somewhere so the questions arise: when you read customer from some storage (customer table?) do you also need to read all of his Orders and populate collection? Or just read order IDs and fill them as they needed (lazy initialization)? What happens if one of the orders is changed externally after you already associated it with your customer object? What if you have a nice deep Object hierarachy and you read top most object, are you going to drag the entire object graph in memory?
What about the queries: objects enforce looking at the data along fixed paths, like customers to orders not the other way around. It is very common and unfortunate that in real life business people want to query data in new and elaborate ways - "find customers who placed orders on widget23 and where on average more than 60 days late in paying their invoices".
There are tons of issues like that and there is no easy way to handle it.
I personally believe that this problem is due for a major breakthrough. many people are working on the frameworks, eventually one of them will rule.
When I was working for major major defense contractor (you know who you are), my favorite categories used in the time-tracking application to spice up the results were UCOT (uncompensated overtime, pronounced "you-caught") and NIIA (non injury industrial accident, basically when you got cold and stayed home).
I am in the middle of Sun J2EE cert and not sure why in hell I am spending my time on it!
Pay attention to ideas that come to you in the middle of the night. Embrace new ideas and try to look at your work from new perspectives.
Just last night I got up and while taking care of things was thinking of a new P2P protocol that will change the world when I get to implement it!
Whatever you do, you will succeed if you play strictly by the rules. Don't take foolish chances -- stick to established protocols in your work environment.
I am fighting the strong urge right now to tell my bosses how stupid this project is!
Travel and relationships with people far away are emerging as huge trends in months to come.
I just did 1200 miles road trip to F&F last weekend!
It is big - my family and I are protected
It has a lot of utility in it
If some kid cannot handle / afford one - not my problem
If some asshole thinks of Java as way to script web pages and does not care / understand J2EE and Objects - he just made big unemployable ass of himself.
Java makes my objects sing.
where participants are locked up with just vi and gcc, every day are forced into new combinations for pair programming and every week they vote one out. Voted out ones become QA.