So you're saying some species of fish just happen to have the ability to interbreed and beget amphibious creatures?
Also some species of birds just happen to have the ability to interbreed and beget dinosaurs?
Two major problems: 1. How do you explain the sudden leap across not only species, but genus, familia? Not even mutation can explain that! You just disprove one of the basic definition of evolution.
2. The "related" species in most biology textbook are defined by observation by people. Dig into your favorite textbook and name a single method that can be used to prove the "relations" by origin.
Why is it so hard for us to concede that there are traces of purposeful design in the way nature works?
I'm no bible thumping fanatics, just spend some time to actually observe and think.
Pump up your open source tools skills.
I have been making a living doing software development exclusively using open source.
Why?
1. Because:
- There are *too many* good open source tools out there, the problem is selecting which one to use, not "the best", but the most suitable to your current project
- Expand your network. By talking to other open source developers, you grow your networking base. So eventually, given a specific project, you know which guy/gal to talk to to solve your problems in the long term without MS yanking the rug from under your feet every couple of years. This is *very* useful because there's no way in your lifetime will you have the time/energy to master *everything* there is to know about good software development!
2. Until MS stops their arm-twisting antics, I'm not endorsing or touching their stuff because I believe in the long run, it's bad for *all* of us developers (MS or not) if we keep them thinking that they can bully their way out of their problems.
This was nearly impossible just a couple of years ago, but now, it's getting easier.
I don't have any Software Development certifications (No MSCE, no Java). I think certification is important if I'd like to be a hardware guy (Cicso, for example).
In real-life enterprenurial software development, my clients wants to hear my solutions to their problem, not some paper propping my credentials. They don't know and they *don't want* to know what those certifications are about.
No offense to those who took them, I'm merely saying that it's not enough because you'll have to compete with people like me who doesn't rely on certifications, rather on the number of finished projects under my belt.
Java Certification (the Architect one) is the only sofwtare dev. cert. that I think is rather useful to have, but you have to go through the previous two which I just don't have the time/need to do.
Good recommendation! jEdit is one of the most modular software I've ever encountered.
It is/has: 1. Excellent documentation 2. Insanely customizable: syntax coloring, keyboard shortcuts, macros, abbreviations (the standards), as well as the powerful plugin subsystem, dockable user-defined toolbar/expandable view 3. Active community that contributed boatloads of useful plugins (I'm developing one currently). 4. Interactive Console subsystem (it even runs system commands) 5. Grep-like Hypersearch facility 6. Excellent file browser
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So you're saying some species of fish just happen to have the ability to interbreed and beget amphibious creatures?
Also some species of birds just happen to have the ability to interbreed and beget dinosaurs?
Two major problems:
1. How do you explain the sudden leap across not only species, but genus, familia? Not even mutation can explain that! You just disprove one of the basic definition of evolution.
2. The "related" species in most biology textbook are defined by observation by people. Dig into your favorite textbook and name a single method that can be used to prove the "relations" by origin.
Why is it so hard for us to concede that there are traces of purposeful design in the way nature works?
I'm no bible thumping fanatics, just spend some time to actually observe and think.
Or... on the flip side of the coin/industry.
Pump up your open source tools skills. I have been making a living doing software development exclusively using open source.
Why?
1. Because:
- There are *too many* good open source tools out there, the problem is selecting which one to use, not "the best", but the most suitable to your current project
- Expand your network. By talking to other open source developers, you grow your networking base. So eventually, given a specific project, you know which guy/gal to talk to to solve your problems in the long term without MS yanking the rug from under your feet every couple of years. This is *very* useful because there's no way in your lifetime will you have the time/energy to master *everything* there is to know about good software development!
2. Until MS stops their arm-twisting antics, I'm not endorsing or touching their stuff because I believe in the long run, it's bad for *all* of us developers (MS or not) if we keep them thinking that they can bully their way out of their problems.
This was nearly impossible just a couple of years ago, but now, it's getting easier.
I don't have any Software Development certifications (No MSCE, no Java). I think certification is important if I'd like to be a hardware guy (Cicso, for example).
In real-life enterprenurial software development, my clients wants to hear my solutions to their problem, not some paper propping my credentials. They don't know and they *don't want* to know what those certifications are about.
No offense to those who took them, I'm merely saying that it's not enough because you'll have to compete with people like me who doesn't rely on certifications, rather on the number of finished projects under my belt.
Java Certification (the Architect one) is the only sofwtare dev. cert. that I think is rather useful to have, but you have to go through the previous two which I just don't have the time/need to do.
Good recommendation!
jEdit is one of the most modular software I've ever encountered.
It is/has:
1. Excellent documentation
2. Insanely customizable: syntax coloring, keyboard shortcuts, macros, abbreviations (the standards), as well as the powerful plugin subsystem, dockable user-defined toolbar/expandable view
3. Active community that contributed boatloads of useful plugins (I'm developing one currently).
4. Interactive Console subsystem (it even runs system commands)
5. Grep-like Hypersearch facility
6. Excellent file browser