The article says you can earn big bucks if you know the 'dot net' language. Trouble is, there's no such thing (unless you count MSIL, which you don't).
A whole bunch of langauges actually target the dotNet runtime (c#, visualbasic.net, j#, etc). My guess is that after a few years of head-in-the-sand, a metric crapload of legacy visual basic projects suddenly need porting to a platform with a future.
I've got a short attention span when I'm not programming, and hop from task to task like an insane jack-rabbit......
I'm rubbish at adhering to routines.
Switch to decaf. Meanwhile, I'd hate to see your code..
It's a Windows app that runs in your system tray, watching what you do (browsing, email, word processing) and tracks the application and document name. You can then review the log of what you've been doing and assign applications + individual documents to projects and clients - obviously it learns as it goes so you only have to tell it about each thing once. You then set up hourly rates and stuff so that can come up with the numbers for your invoices.
If you're constantly on other machines it may be a problem, but I would note that it can sync with a Pocket PC Outlook calendar - you log time spent in meetings, etc in the calendar and sync up when you're at your 'master' PC.
Undoubtedly not a 100% fit for what you ask for, but it sounds like it could be a reasonable fit.
I can imagine this becoming a great source of copyright issues - google you have no way of knowing where your content came from - pictures, reference articles - even recipes. For example it's really not hard to imagine someone posting up all the recipes from their Delia Smith cookbook collection.
Who is going to police all this aggregated, easily searched content? The only rational strategy for google is to wash their hands of it and have some kind of content editors responsible for acting on complaints.
Sure, this issue isn't exactly new to the internet, but by storing it, indexing it, making a tidy profit from it (via adwords) and no doubt painting a nice, publically available API over it, I find it hard to believe it won't be long before various organisations are up in arms.
Interesting note in the article: BEA's stock price recently tanked 23%. Anyone know why?
Anyway, I will freely admit I've not looked into this any more than the press release (and even then I skipped most of the vowels). I've been developing professionally in Java for 7 years now, and in all that time I have managed to avoid using any product from BEA.
Is there anyone out there who has used this stuff in its proprietary guise, who could compare it to the plethora of other frameworks out there?
Is the whole thing going to become redundant when J2EE 1.5 emerges? Is there any reason to spend any energy looking at it whatsoever? Sorry for so many questions?
So enjoy the eyecandy, but remember, too much candy can rot your brain. And if you want to avoid fattening your brain, you can come help us make this ready for prime-time, and work off the candy you ate and pitch in at freedesktop.org
If translucent windows can "fatten your brain" (er..?) then is ratpoison the Atkins Diet?
Someone else help me out with abusing this metaphor some more.
There's a whole raft of tools out there that put this philosophy into action - witness MS Access, VB etc. Even an Excel spreadsheet can be viewed as a 'programming environment' really.
There are 2 kinds of problems that programmers solve - technical problems and business problems. The technical problems can be abstracted by tools like the above, but the business problems remain.
Techniques such as Object Oriented design, abstraction, etc etc are just as useful for solving these kinds of problems as they are, for example, when writing a new web browser.
It's difficult to see how a groovy GUI can hide or solve these problems. You're still going to need a certain set of skils to guide the development and architecture of any nontrivial system.
I'm sure we've all see complex websites that have been put together by naive users of Frontpage - bloated HTML, endless redundancy (cut-n-paste) and a hideous task for someone else (with a similar skill level) to pick up and modify. It's hard to see how you can prevent these kind of problems when you go down the "everyone can use it" path.
Could it be that most men prefer to role play male characters, therefore creating a higher demand, therefore resulting in a higher price ?
Hell no! There are huge, huge ramifications on a broad socio-economic scale that will justify at least 2 dozen more essays written by a social science student with a closet EQ addiction.. which will all unfortunately be posted on slashdot.
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The article says you can earn big bucks if you know the 'dot net' language. Trouble is, there's no such thing (unless you count MSIL, which you don't).
A whole bunch of langauges actually target the dotNet runtime (c#, visualbasic.net, j#, etc). My guess is that after a few years of head-in-the-sand, a metric crapload of legacy visual basic projects suddenly need porting to a platform with a future.
Switch to decaf. Meanwhile, I'd hate to see your code..
A couple of mates of mine wrote a software product that addresses this problem. So feel free to take this post with a grain of NaCl.
http://www.spherical.com.au/timesheet-software.asIt's a Windows app that runs in your system tray, watching what you do (browsing, email, word processing) and tracks the application and document name. You can then review the log of what you've been doing and assign applications + individual documents to projects and clients - obviously it learns as it goes so you only have to tell it about each thing once. You then set up hourly rates and stuff so that can come up with the numbers for your invoices.
If you're constantly on other machines it may be a problem, but I would note that it can sync with a Pocket PC Outlook calendar - you log time spent in meetings, etc in the calendar and sync up when you're at your 'master' PC.
Undoubtedly not a 100% fit for what you ask for, but it sounds like it could be a reasonable fit.
I can imagine this becoming a great source of copyright issues - google you have no way of knowing where your content came from - pictures, reference articles - even recipes. For example it's really not hard to imagine someone posting up all the recipes from their Delia Smith cookbook collection.
Who is going to police all this aggregated, easily searched content? The only rational strategy for google is to wash their hands of it and have some kind of content editors responsible for acting on complaints.
Sure, this issue isn't exactly new to the internet, but by storing it, indexing it, making a tidy profit from it (via adwords) and no doubt painting a nice, publically available API over it, I find it hard to believe it won't be long before various organisations are up in arms.
Apple. It Just Works.
This is why I read slashdot. I've already forgotten what the article is about.
Yes, that's much better! Looks like somebody is in denial.
ethethethethethethethethethe...donald sinden. scorchio!
Welcome to the Internet!
MS-DOS .. well, I *think* they had a 5.1 .. :)
I just orded a Mac II like 3 days ago!!! thanks again Jobs.
Interesting note in the article: BEA's stock price recently tanked 23%. Anyone know why?
Anyway, I will freely admit I've not looked into this any more than the press release (and even then I skipped most of the vowels). I've been developing professionally in Java for 7 years now, and in all that time I have managed to avoid using any product from BEA.
Is there anyone out there who has used this stuff in its proprietary guise, who could compare it to the plethora of other frameworks out there?
Is the whole thing going to become redundant when J2EE 1.5 emerges? Is there any reason to spend any energy looking at it whatsoever? Sorry for so many questions?
Administrating the countryside.. administrating the peasants..
I won't be happy until my bios comes with a relational database, skinnable 3d windowing environment and a full J2EE stack.
In addition, I should be able to download bug fixes, new features and skinds from a website, call it biosupdate.com
Come on Phoenix, listen to your customers!
If translucent windows can "fatten your brain" (er..?) then is ratpoison the Atkins Diet? Someone else help me out with abusing this metaphor some more.
There's a whole raft of tools out there that put this philosophy into action - witness MS Access, VB etc. Even an Excel spreadsheet can be viewed as a 'programming environment' really.
There are 2 kinds of problems that programmers solve - technical problems and business problems. The technical problems can be abstracted by tools like the above, but the business problems remain.
Techniques such as Object Oriented design, abstraction, etc etc are just as useful for solving these kinds of problems as they are, for example, when writing a new web browser.
It's difficult to see how a groovy GUI can hide or solve these problems. You're still going to need a certain set of skils to guide the development and architecture of any nontrivial system.
I'm sure we've all see complex websites that have been put together by naive users of Frontpage - bloated HTML, endless redundancy (cut-n-paste) and a hideous task for someone else (with a similar skill level) to pick up and modify. It's hard to see how you can prevent these kind of problems when you go down the "everyone can use it" path.
That's why I always make sure all my data is available in punch-card format before upgrading.
Could it be that most men prefer to role play male characters, therefore creating a higher demand, therefore resulting in a higher price ?
Hell no! There are huge, huge ramifications on a broad socio-economic scale that will justify at least 2 dozen more essays written by a social science student with a closet EQ addiction.. which will all unfortunately be posted on slashdot.
mike