Ahhh, Web Application Frameworks. Not a language but a way of getting Perl to work writing websites. I may have to poke around and check it out but I do want to say that I'm more interested in writing my own stuff than using a framework to mask the work. Most of what I do doesn't require the excess of any of the available libraries. Besides I think frameworks hide the stuff you should know in order to write code well.
Thanks for the pointers though. I will poke around at them.
Honestly. If you can't offer a better solution, stop bitching about it. I and others have asked for something other than PHP for website programming over the past few articles and all I hear is bitching about how bad PHP is.
I use perl for sysadmin scripting stuff. I like perl. For sysadmin scripting stuff. It's a fricking pain in the ass to set up and maintain for the creation of web pages though.
Realize women aren't wired to want sex all the time (generalization of course) but that men generate 85 million sperm a day and on average produce 500 million per ejaculation. Men generate (depending on genetics of course), 1,000,000,000,000 sperm over their lifetime. Women produce about 400 eggs over their lifetime. So men want sex. But no one wants 400 kids, so women are the gateway to their genitalia.
So if you're a guy and only getting sex once a year, you have only yourself to blame. You have to convince her to have sex. Woo her constantly. Essentially always be on a date. It can't be the day you want sex but for days beforehand. Weeks if you've slacked off for a while. When you slack off and take her for granted, sex will taper off again and you'll be back to once a year.
A girlfriend pillow seems to be a pair of folded legs a guy lays on (there are others, but that seems most common in the link). But a boyfriend pillow is a chest (some muscular) and arm that goes around the girl.
Because developers have a consistent environment to write code to? Because then I can just drop the DVD into the machine and play?
I'm not generally a console type gamer. The only other console I've ever had was an Intellivision my brother gave me (assuming you don't count the Color Computer with various cartridges of course). I have an Xbox360 and bought it for one specific game (Rocksmith). Once Ubisoft released the PC game, I bought it and picked up the three intro DLC packs (another 50 tunes maybe). But I continued playing the Xbox360 vs the PC. In part because having to reboot my PC in order to successfully (most of the time) have the PC start Rocksmith without bailing. So it's a little annoying to have to muck with the PC in order to play Rocksmith when I can just hit the various power switches, hit the 'A' button, 'Start', 'A', 'A', and select a song to play. And when I'm done, bring it back to the Song listing (to save my place), and power it all off.
Sure, it's older tech but it just works (about 18 months of almost daily playing of Rocksmith; 1 to 2 hours per weekday, 6 to 8 hours per weekend) unlike the PC which constantly throws nVidia driver errors for the 6 month nVidia cards (I reverted to the 308 drivers from 320 I think and it's better) or AMD driver blue screen on boots for the older AMD cards.
I switched in '97 when the bank I was using bounced a check. When I asked why it bounced when I'd deposited more than sufficient cash to cover it, they said that cash deposits take 5 days to process going from Northern Virginia to Richmond and back.
Depends on the IT industry. Supporting servers that Emergency 911 run on might be considered 'lives at stake' when you're on call (redundant, redundant, redundant though). Technically, when I'm on call I don't go to the movies. I have a 15 minute response and 15 minutes to get the computer up and logged in (I've had VPN issues and had to drive in occasionally so it's good I'm 5 miles from work:) ).
It's a confirmed phone number vs a sequential run through a list or the person might be on the list because they're too susceptible to telemarketers. I recall reading a story where door to door salesmen found folks with "No Solicitors" signs were more likely to buy something from them than someone without such a sign.
No no, it'll be connected to Google Glass. Every time you take a step, it'll snap a picture and upload it for Google Street View, Google Home View, Google Hiking View, Google Mountain Biking View, and of course Google Funniest Pictures.
Cool. That means I can leave my CD collection at home from now on. It's a pain to carry 2,000 CDs on the motorcycle when I'm traveling in Canada, let me tell you.;)
I worked there for 2 years. There were some interesting technical benefits however the sysadmin team was highly siloed. I counted 12 teams that had fingers on the servers we managed. The worst part was the cog in the machine treatment. Some manager you'd never seen before would come into the cube farm on Monday, and seemingly randomly tap 2 or 3 folks out. They'd have their desks cleaned out by Wednesday. Your manager would find you 3 or 4 jobs but they'd require a transfer to a different location. When my sysadmin job was outsourced to India (we had to train them before we left), my manager found Data Center building jobs in Kansas, web programming jobs locally, and contract support for a company in Boston. Fortunately that was a telecommute position. We had folks from New York, Boston (on site), New Jersey, Washington State, and me in Colorado. The team was so broken due to the lack of face to face interaction that folks would leave and new folks come in every few months. I finally left when management tapped our customer interface and she had 2 days to transfer all her knowledge to the replacement. I could deal with most of the cog in the machine stuff, but the '2 days and you're out' stuff was extremely stressful.
Actually just scripts running via SSH. No agents on the hosts listening on ports. SSH is on all systems. The scripts are run on the host, data is saved in a data directory. The central server scps the files to a local, server specific directory for later review and parsing.
Yea, same here. My team of 4 currently manage about 500 production and production lab (customer integration testing and pre-production testing) systems with another team member managing around 500 dev/sqa systems (we're merging in a few months). We're using OpenView to monitor just the production systems but that leaves production lab systems (which we're still responsible for) and soon the dev/sqa systems to be managed. I have a script framework which manages 15 or 20 scripts per system for data gathering and performance monitoring. I have php scripts I've written to parse the retrieved data and automatically update the inventory database.
It requires some agent to be installed on a target server which communicates back to the Puppet Master. It's the same problem I have with other such tools that have agents. Infosec doesn't permit such holes in the various firewalls (I have servers in many locations). So I fall back to what I always do. I write scripts that run on the host gathering data, retrieve the data nightly, and can push changes out on the fly or with a nightly scheduled action.
It's a hell of a way to manage around 1,000 unix servers, but it's the easiest way to get the info I need to manage not just production but lab systems as well.
I'll finish downloading the docs and reading up on it out of curiosity but I don't see this going anywhere for us.
That's actually a good point. Guys do have to be especially careful when interacting with women in the workplace or in any working relationship. I can see it being difficult to be as persistent with a woman, or as social, as with guys.
At work, I've had the guys over several times to play guitars and drums together (one bass (plays drums too), one drummer, and three guitarists (us three are novices at guitar all taking lessons)). I had convinced a woman in our department to take guitar lessons after I'd started taking them last year, and even recommended my instructor. I've asked her to come over and play with the rest of the guys but not only has she refused, I've had other members on her team comment that I shouldn't be asking. That's sad because, according to our instructor, she's a good player and a good singer and we need a singer:)
Actually it does in part. The first part says women are underrepresented in the recent shows. The second part that you quoted said that they _also_ found that in previous years women accepted less invitations than men.
I'd want to correlate it to something more along the lines the folks making the invitations looked at the previous accepts and declines or no answers, and declined to invite them again. So less women were invited this year because less women accepted in previous years.
Then they're trying to figure out why women didn't accept previously and theorized it was due to women wanting to have babies before it's too late.
Actually I'm in the same boat. PHP works fine for all the little things I do and even a few big things. I've tried poking at Ruby a little and wasn't interested enough to pursue it. While I've done C programming in the past (80's and 90's), and perl (90's and 00's), most of my more recent work is scripting in general; shell scripting, some perl stuff, and loads of PHP+MySQL+JavaScript.
I have asked the same question in past PHP rant threads but with no response.
Developers don't get access to production systems unless when troubleshooting a problem. And even then, the access is short and very limited. No way to change the code on the production system.
If a bug is found, developers correct the bug in development, push to QA to test and make sure it's fixing the problem, then production deploys it using tried and true procedures to make sure the new system comes up and the old system is available in case the fix breaks something else.
My general rule is, if you aren't getting paged when a system breaks, you don't get root access. (Which is not to say you automatically get it if you do get paged such as the app support folks, but by default you aren't getting it.)
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Ahhh, Web Application Frameworks. Not a language but a way of getting Perl to work writing websites. I may have to poke around and check it out but I do want to say that I'm more interested in writing my own stuff than using a framework to mask the work. Most of what I do doesn't require the excess of any of the available libraries. Besides I think frameworks hide the stuff you should know in order to write code well.
Thanks for the pointers though. I will poke around at them.
[John]
Never heard of them. Are they better languages than PHP for creating websites?
(Actually I assume they're perl package managers of some sort but it's hard to parse from your answer.)
[John]
Honestly. If you can't offer a better solution, stop bitching about it. I and others have asked for something other than PHP for website programming over the past few articles and all I hear is bitching about how bad PHP is.
I use perl for sysadmin scripting stuff. I like perl. For sysadmin scripting stuff. It's a fricking pain in the ass to set up and maintain for the creation of web pages though.
[John]
Technically 911 was working. It was the communication between the dispatchers and the responders.
[John]
Realize women aren't wired to want sex all the time (generalization of course) but that men generate 85 million sperm a day and on average produce 500 million per ejaculation. Men generate (depending on genetics of course), 1,000,000,000,000 sperm over their lifetime. Women produce about 400 eggs over their lifetime. So men want sex. But no one wants 400 kids, so women are the gateway to their genitalia.
So if you're a guy and only getting sex once a year, you have only yourself to blame. You have to convince her to have sex. Woo her constantly. Essentially always be on a date. It can't be the day you want sex but for days beforehand. Weeks if you've slacked off for a while. When you slack off and take her for granted, sex will taper off again and you'll be back to once a year.
[John]
A girlfriend pillow seems to be a pair of folded legs a guy lays on (there are others, but that seems most common in the link). But a boyfriend pillow is a chest (some muscular) and arm that goes around the girl.
Interesting.
[John]
Because developers have a consistent environment to write code to? Because then I can just drop the DVD into the machine and play?
I'm not generally a console type gamer. The only other console I've ever had was an Intellivision my brother gave me (assuming you don't count the Color Computer with various cartridges of course). I have an Xbox360 and bought it for one specific game (Rocksmith). Once Ubisoft released the PC game, I bought it and picked up the three intro DLC packs (another 50 tunes maybe). But I continued playing the Xbox360 vs the PC. In part because having to reboot my PC in order to successfully (most of the time) have the PC start Rocksmith without bailing. So it's a little annoying to have to muck with the PC in order to play Rocksmith when I can just hit the various power switches, hit the 'A' button, 'Start', 'A', 'A', and select a song to play. And when I'm done, bring it back to the Song listing (to save my place), and power it all off.
Sure, it's older tech but it just works (about 18 months of almost daily playing of Rocksmith; 1 to 2 hours per weekday, 6 to 8 hours per weekend) unlike the PC which constantly throws nVidia driver errors for the 6 month nVidia cards (I reverted to the 308 drivers from 320 I think and it's better) or AMD driver blue screen on boots for the older AMD cards.
[John]
I switched in '97 when the bank I was using bounced a check. When I asked why it bounced when I'd deposited more than sufficient cash to cover it, they said that cash deposits take 5 days to process going from Northern Virginia to Richmond and back.
[John]
56. And I drink a lot of liquids.
[John]
Depends on the IT industry. Supporting servers that Emergency 911 run on might be considered 'lives at stake' when you're on call (redundant, redundant, redundant though). Technically, when I'm on call I don't go to the movies. I have a 15 minute response and 15 minutes to get the computer up and logged in (I've had VPN issues and had to drive in occasionally so it's good I'm 5 miles from work :) ).
[John]
Then two guys behind you text that you're texting. Then four guys behind them, then 8, then we may as well all go home.
[John]
It's a confirmed phone number vs a sequential run through a list or the person might be on the list because they're too susceptible to telemarketers. I recall reading a story where door to door salesmen found folks with "No Solicitors" signs were more likely to buy something from them than someone without such a sign.
[John]
Ahhh, Google Glass makes sense now. :D
[John]
Time to create a pattern shifting mask for general walking around ala Rorschach.
[John]
No no, it'll be connected to Google Glass. Every time you take a step, it'll snap a picture and upload it for Google Street View, Google Home View, Google Hiking View, Google Mountain Biking View, and of course Google Funniest Pictures.
[John]
Cool. That means I can leave my CD collection at home from now on. It's a pain to carry 2,000 CDs on the motorcycle when I'm traveling in Canada, let me tell you. ;)
[John]
I worked there for 2 years. There were some interesting technical benefits however the sysadmin team was highly siloed. I counted 12 teams that had fingers on the servers we managed. The worst part was the cog in the machine treatment. Some manager you'd never seen before would come into the cube farm on Monday, and seemingly randomly tap 2 or 3 folks out. They'd have their desks cleaned out by Wednesday. Your manager would find you 3 or 4 jobs but they'd require a transfer to a different location. When my sysadmin job was outsourced to India (we had to train them before we left), my manager found Data Center building jobs in Kansas, web programming jobs locally, and contract support for a company in Boston. Fortunately that was a telecommute position. We had folks from New York, Boston (on site), New Jersey, Washington State, and me in Colorado. The team was so broken due to the lack of face to face interaction that folks would leave and new folks come in every few months. I finally left when management tapped our customer interface and she had 2 days to transfer all her knowledge to the replacement. I could deal with most of the cog in the machine stuff, but the '2 days and you're out' stuff was extremely stressful.
[John]
Actually just scripts running via SSH. No agents on the hosts listening on ports. SSH is on all systems. The scripts are run on the host, data is saved in a data directory. The central server scps the files to a local, server specific directory for later review and parsing.
[John]
Yea, same here. My team of 4 currently manage about 500 production and production lab (customer integration testing and pre-production testing) systems with another team member managing around 500 dev/sqa systems (we're merging in a few months). We're using OpenView to monitor just the production systems but that leaves production lab systems (which we're still responsible for) and soon the dev/sqa systems to be managed. I have a script framework which manages 15 or 20 scripts per system for data gathering and performance monitoring. I have php scripts I've written to parse the retrieved data and automatically update the inventory database.
It can be done. And it is automated.
[John]
It requires some agent to be installed on a target server which communicates back to the Puppet Master. It's the same problem I have with other such tools that have agents. Infosec doesn't permit such holes in the various firewalls (I have servers in many locations). So I fall back to what I always do. I write scripts that run on the host gathering data, retrieve the data nightly, and can push changes out on the fly or with a nightly scheduled action.
It's a hell of a way to manage around 1,000 unix servers, but it's the easiest way to get the info I need to manage not just production but lab systems as well.
I'll finish downloading the docs and reading up on it out of curiosity but I don't see this going anywhere for us.
[John]
That's actually a good point. Guys do have to be especially careful when interacting with women in the workplace or in any working relationship. I can see it being difficult to be as persistent with a woman, or as social, as with guys.
At work, I've had the guys over several times to play guitars and drums together (one bass (plays drums too), one drummer, and three guitarists (us three are novices at guitar all taking lessons)). I had convinced a woman in our department to take guitar lessons after I'd started taking them last year, and even recommended my instructor. I've asked her to come over and play with the rest of the guys but not only has she refused, I've had other members on her team comment that I shouldn't be asking. That's sad because, according to our instructor, she's a good player and a good singer and we need a singer :)
[John]
Oh, and men not being stay at home dads and thereby not supporting their smart(er) women spouses.
(Gotta have that dig at the men there, you missed that.)
[John]
Actually it does in part. The first part says women are underrepresented in the recent shows. The second part that you quoted said that they _also_ found that in previous years women accepted less invitations than men.
I'd want to correlate it to something more along the lines the folks making the invitations looked at the previous accepts and declines or no answers, and declined to invite them again. So less women were invited this year because less women accepted in previous years.
Then they're trying to figure out why women didn't accept previously and theorized it was due to women wanting to have babies before it's too late.
Or at least that's how I read it.
[John]
Actually I'm in the same boat. PHP works fine for all the little things I do and even a few big things. I've tried poking at Ruby a little and wasn't interested enough to pursue it. While I've done C programming in the past (80's and 90's), and perl (90's and 00's), most of my more recent work is scripting in general; shell scripting, some perl stuff, and loads of PHP+MySQL+JavaScript.
I have asked the same question in past PHP rant threads but with no response.
[John]
Developers don't get access to production systems unless when troubleshooting a problem. And even then, the access is short and very limited. No way to change the code on the production system.
If a bug is found, developers correct the bug in development, push to QA to test and make sure it's fixing the problem, then production deploys it using tried and true procedures to make sure the new system comes up and the old system is available in case the fix breaks something else.
My general rule is, if you aren't getting paged when a system breaks, you don't get root access. (Which is not to say you automatically get it if you do get paged such as the app support folks, but by default you aren't getting it.)
[John]