you often don't *have* an afternoon to sit and write documentation
This way, you make documenting or not your decision, when actually it should be your manager who prioritizes such issues. Your ass will be on the line.
Example from my workplace: I work as a developer in a team of nine, working on two projects. When the guy who does the deployment is on a holiday, someone asks: "who can do a release?" No one, because he's gone. The deployment is still done, but it's a major mess.
When he comes back, I bring up this point in the weekly meeting: deploying the application should be documented. The teamleader says: "I'll get back on this". Then it takes three goddamn times that I bring up the point before it's done -- and the teamleader is pissed off at me. But time is allocated after all!
When management doesn't listen and the shit hits the fan, you can say "I told you so" (but you don't need to).
(And yes, deployment should be one button. But it isn't right now.)
Funny you should say that. I've stopped working at a big multinational and started working at a small local company. Both use MS Office 2000. On Windows 2000.
Personally, I don't give a rat's ass for all the new features. I run Office 2000 flawlessly on Crossover Office.
Getting a computer science degree isn't about understanding every technology that's been built out there
No, but students certainly are exposed to technologies. You should read between the lines, they complain that students know nothing on the subject, i.e. they have never heard of it.
My company isn't huge, and up until now has done well enough hosting all of our websites/email/etc
I fail to understand this. Why would anyone want to do hosting themselves, when there's a gigantic market with good, professional and cheap third parties?
Flexibility? How many times is the website altered? Does this weight against the uptime of a professional data center?
If you can stand programming in Java, then take a look at RoboCode. It's got a built-in editor, making the creation of your robot a piece of cake. Be sure to check this article and the FAQ.
At work, a competition was formed. If you're interested, I can look up the rules we used.
Oracle!!! Or rather its interpreted language PL/SQL; pascale with lots of SQL-like features. This big bad-assed database has a bunch of libraries and an apache module that puts requests through to stored procedures!!
Think about it, man!! YOU'LL BE THE ONLY ONE TO MAINTAIN IT!
I was only giving an example; you could substitute RedHat for Debian in my post. I have never met a sysadmin who compiled his own kernels for production boxes. Most leave that up to the packager.
I remember when the Linux kernel was rock solid, stable and reliable. I remember when there were no huge code changes in the "stable" even-numbered kernel series. Remember those days?
Yeah, I remembered those days as it was yesterday. In fact it actually WAS yesterday that I logged in to a rock solid Red Hat AS 3.0 box.
What are you blabbering about, man? It's the task of the big distro's to take a stable kernel and keep it stable.
You don't do kernel downloads/compiles yourself and put them in production, do you?
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Interesting situation. To check for my country (the Netherlands), I did a job search on one of the biggest online job boards, in the IT category. Results:
I once talked to a manager about this. The floor was vast, the only divisions made by medium-height file cabinets and a couple of plants. He knew that the productivity was 10% lower, but the costs and the easiness with which he and the secretaries could find employees had a greater value.
Why don't you put the thing on eBay, selling for the highest bidder. Then find your favourite project on sourceforge and donate via Paypal?
I'm a developer and I often use Meld, a diff/merge tool. I also am an avid vim user. So every now and then I donate a few bucks to these worthy projects.
I've seen a lot of comments mentioning you should write a testing tool yourself. If you decide to do this, maybe this article could be useful; it talks about automating IE using Perl scripts.
I'm wondering, what about sysadmins? There are people with a dedicated server that want to have a knowledgeable sysadmin look at it for one or two hours each week.
Do these freelance programmer sites also include gigs for sysadmins? Or are there specific sites for those jobs?
I don't know about other wiki's, but Oddmuse has two types of pages: ones with text and others with files. If the file is an image, it's displayed directly. If not, it becomes a link.
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Don't tell us you've got enough experience to beta-test this thing!!
No offense meant, but if it's the main reason she might go looking for enjoyment elsewhere.
This way, you make documenting or not your decision, when actually it should be your manager who prioritizes such issues. Your ass will be on the line.
Example from my workplace: I work as a developer in a team of nine, working on two projects. When the guy who does the deployment is on a holiday, someone asks: "who can do a release?" No one, because he's gone. The deployment is still done, but it's a major mess.
When he comes back, I bring up this point in the weekly meeting: deploying the application should be documented. The teamleader says: "I'll get back on this". Then it takes three goddamn times that I bring up the point before it's done -- and the teamleader is pissed off at me. But time is allocated after all!
When management doesn't listen and the shit hits the fan, you can say "I told you so" (but you don't need to).
(And yes, deployment should be one button. But it isn't right now.)
"Hey 35543334, come here for a second, will ya?"
And maybe sixty-nined. They didn't get a monopoly for nothing, you know.
That sounds like a lot of work to get her to scream your name. I just leave the fridge door open.
What I find even worse is that this guy wasted valuable time doing indenting when there are a gazillion programs doing it much better, like HTML Tidy.
Funny you should say that. I've stopped working at a big multinational and started working at a small local company. Both use MS Office 2000. On Windows 2000.
Personally, I don't give a rat's ass for all the new features. I run Office 2000 flawlessly on Crossover Office.
No, but students certainly are exposed to technologies. You should read between the lines, they complain that students know nothing on the subject, i.e. they have never heard of it.
OK, I've filled in everything per your suggestions. Now it asks me for a password. What should I fill in?
Thank god I'm safe. I always go to KFC.
I fail to understand this. Why would anyone want to do hosting themselves, when there's a gigantic market with good, professional and cheap third parties?
Flexibility? How many times is the website altered? Does this weight against the uptime of a professional data center?
*ducks* *runs*
At work, a competition was formed. If you're interested, I can look up the rules we used.
Think about it, man!! YOU'LL BE THE ONLY ONE TO MAINTAIN IT!
I was only giving an example; you could substitute RedHat for Debian in my post. I have never met a sysadmin who compiled his own kernels for production boxes. Most leave that up to the packager.
Yeah, I remembered those days as it was yesterday. In fact it actually WAS yesterday that I logged in to a rock solid Red Hat AS 3.0 box.
What are you blabbering about, man? It's the task of the big distro's to take a stable kernel and keep it stable.
You don't do kernel downloads/compiles yourself and put them in production, do you?
Windows: 574 entries
Linux: 218 entries
FreeBSD: 4 entries
This completely supports your experience.
Yeah, that's because it's bullshit. It's not difficult to find Linux admins nowadays.
I'm a developer and I often use Meld, a diff/merge tool. I also am an avid vim user. So every now and then I donate a few bucks to these worthy projects.
I've seen a lot of comments mentioning you should write a testing tool yourself. If you decide to do this, maybe this article could be useful; it talks about automating IE using Perl scripts.
Colleague: "Who does the cooking at your house?"
Me: "I do."
Colleague: "Well, what does your wife do then?"
Me: "Complain."
I'm wondering, what about sysadmins? There are people with a dedicated server that want to have a knowledgeable sysadmin look at it for one or two hours each week. Do these freelance programmer sites also include gigs for sysadmins? Or are there specific sites for those jobs?
I don't know about other wiki's, but Oddmuse has two types of pages: ones with text and others with files. If the file is an image, it's displayed directly. If not, it becomes a link.