The authors question of if Apple should be blamed for the overpriced Xoom is ridiculous. 1 year ago nobody thought you could create a viable tablet for $500 and Apple created the whole market overnight. Look up articles from January 2010 most of the tech analysts were projecting an Apple tablet for over $1000 some as high as $2000. Apple created the market, there is no excuse for Motorola to overprice. They have big buying power and a third party gave them an OS for orders of magnitude less money than Apple paid to develop iOS.
If this is the best Android can muster iPad1 will eat its lunch, iPad2 will dominate it if they keep price down. Right now the Playbook looks like stiffer compitition because of the business user sales channel Blackberry has available.
LAMP is not going to replace MS now or ever from an Admins perspective. eventually in cloud services perhaps, but then many server admins will be rendered unnessary. MS is still dominate, ASP.NET, VB.Net, C# blow away PHP, Ruby, and Python in job postings companies won't migrate their code base to be "cool". MySQL is popular on some websites but will never compete with Oracle and SQL Server in thecorporate world.
you weren't a vb programmer if you think VB is mainly dragging and dropping, you might be able to make some forms like that(bad forms at that). But VB.NET allows you build all levels of applications in all tiers, to any gang of 4 pattern. It is every bit the equal of C# and Java.
Well ramping up production may not be so easy. Lets not forget the 360 had a major problem with defective units so they need to keep quality control up. Plus trying to sell something in multiple companies is very difficult. Finally with limited production capacity they need to balance there shipments based on time, I would imagine for November and December the majority of all the Wii's produced worldwide will come to North America because of the Christmas season but right now they need to operate in many countries. Plus they have the "problem" of the DS completely slaughtering the PSP(which is what I choose to buy) so they can only produce so much.
I'm surprised that anybody would change there Word Processor at all. I can't imagine a realistic business case for a business that is currently using Word 2000 or 2003 that would show a gain in bottom line by switching it over to Open Office or Office 2007. If you already have the licenses there is no reason to change. 90% of the features of word processors aren't even used by the normal user.
With a proxy someone could easily run IIS and Apache on two separate servers using the same IP. Also there is nothing stopping you from running both on the same server with the same IP address if they are bound to different ports.
More interesting, all of the Democratic candidates except for Hillary favor Linux or FreeBSD. 69% of the Republican candidates, in contrast, prefer Windows
I think more likely somebody who works for somebody else who works for somebody else who works for an adviser of the candidate prefers the O/S.
I'm not sure what they meant by PC Network Administrators but I don't think they meant IIS that is considered a Web or Application server. I think they mean people who basically path desktops, but their are plenty of jobs for SMS people so I don't know what they mean. Probably just crabby way of saying that their are tools around that allow more workstations to be administered by less people
I wouldn't worry about your age, I have several peers who are lower level devleopers but are they're in their 40's or 50's. State your pay requirements in cover letters.
I might add that Oracle for us was at least cheaper than MS SQL and provided better/more refined features.
How could this be? SQL Server is half the price per processor and provides most features out of the box, Oracle requires add ons. I'm not going to say SQL Server is better but it does provide more bang for the buck.
Better future with.NET on the resume, MS is going to be dominant for next 5 years at least in the industry probably longer. PERL is on its way out, even if Linux completely dominates MS PERL will not be the dominate language of the future.
Plus all jobs get old, playing half-life may be fun at first, but you may find doing small projects by yourself gets boring after awhile.
I think the point was that the company would slash everything for short term gains and run the company into the ground. A pure tech company like MS could not live without research.
Maybe it's good for small things like that, but with web sites (unless you decide to use Javascript and make it interactive) you generally don't have the need for objects
This is oposite of the truth. OO gains more and more value for larger sites because you benefit from resusable code more and more. All "business logic" is best encased in objects.
If you need to do both you need two databases. A OLTP and OLAP database. Use the OLTP for data entry use the OLAP for datawarehouse. OLTP mainly optimized for fast inserting OLAP for fast querying.
Well this really depends what you are running. If it is a web server without session states stored in memory I seriously doubt end users would know you had a server failure. Now if it is something with connected session states like Oracle connections(I know busy db servers run poorly virtualized just an example) most likely all connections are gone and users need to reconnect.
Your on crack. There are managed web hosts all over the place for Windows/ASP/.NET I could post a few but everybody can use Google. Most major hosts over both. Also Apache has 70% because of domain parking.
Most CS instructors will cram down students' throats that if they concentrate on principles they can pick up any language/platform as if it's nothing at all. It's a lie, but that's what they say.
Well its true to a certain extent. I think somebody with a strong object oriented background could move from Java to.Net development or vice versa. But to say an expert COBOL programmer could apply prinicples and pickup PHP easily would be a lie.
I would say though that somebody is better off concentrating on a few pieces of technology and going down that career path. There is really no value in being an expert COBOL, C, Java, VB, PHP, and PERL programmer who also knows Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and OS/400. Besides for the fact it would be almost impossible to keep up on the technologies there is no job that will require you to be an expert in all.
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The authors question of if Apple should be blamed for the overpriced Xoom is ridiculous. 1 year ago nobody thought you could create a viable tablet for $500 and Apple created the whole market overnight. Look up articles from January 2010 most of the tech analysts were projecting an Apple tablet for over $1000 some as high as $2000. Apple created the market, there is no excuse for Motorola to overprice. They have big buying power and a third party gave them an OS for orders of magnitude less money than Apple paid to develop iOS.
If this is the best Android can muster iPad1 will eat its lunch, iPad2 will dominate it if they keep price down. Right now the Playbook looks like stiffer compitition because of the business user sales channel Blackberry has available.
Xoom +$800 price tag = doa
LAMP is not going to replace MS now or ever from an Admins perspective. eventually in cloud services perhaps, but then many server admins will be rendered unnessary. MS is still dominate, ASP.NET, VB.Net, C# blow away PHP, Ruby, and Python in job postings companies won't migrate their code base to be "cool". MySQL is popular on some websites but will never compete with Oracle and SQL Server in thecorporate world.
You clearly do not understand VB it has just as much freedom as Java with the exception of only running on Windows platforms.
you weren't a vb programmer if you think VB is mainly dragging and dropping, you might be able to make some forms like that(bad forms at that). But VB.NET allows you build all levels of applications in all tiers, to any gang of 4 pattern. It is every bit the equal of C# and Java.
Well ramping up production may not be so easy. Lets not forget the 360 had a major problem with defective units so they need to keep quality control up. Plus trying to sell something in multiple companies is very difficult. Finally with limited production capacity they need to balance there shipments based on time, I would imagine for November and December the majority of all the Wii's produced worldwide will come to North America because of the Christmas season but right now they need to operate in many countries. Plus they have the "problem" of the DS completely slaughtering the PSP(which is what I choose to buy) so they can only produce so much.
Because Object Oriented databases were so successful, I think his best work is behind him.
Using parameterized sql will likely cause execution plan to be saved as well depending on RDMS platform if stored procedures are not desired.
I'm surprised that anybody would change there Word Processor at all. I can't imagine a realistic business case for a business that is currently using Word 2000 or 2003 that would show a gain in bottom line by switching it over to Open Office or Office 2007. If you already have the licenses there is no reason to change. 90% of the features of word processors aren't even used by the normal user.
With a proxy someone could easily run IIS and Apache on two separate servers using the same IP. Also there is nothing stopping you from running both on the same server with the same IP address if they are bound to different ports.
More interesting, all of the Democratic candidates except for Hillary favor Linux or FreeBSD. 69% of the Republican candidates, in contrast, prefer Windows
I think more likely somebody who works for somebody else who works for somebody else who works for an adviser of the candidate prefers the O/S.
I'm not sure what they meant by PC Network Administrators but I don't think they meant IIS that is considered a Web or Application server. I think they mean people who basically path desktops, but their are plenty of jobs for SMS people so I don't know what they mean. Probably just crabby way of saying that their are tools around that allow more workstations to be administered by less people
I wouldn't worry about your age, I have several peers who are lower level devleopers but are they're in their 40's or 50's. State your pay requirements in cover letters.
I might add that Oracle for us was at least cheaper than MS SQL and provided better/more refined features.
How could this be? SQL Server is half the price per processor and provides most features out of the box, Oracle requires add ons. I'm not going to say SQL Server is better but it does provide more bang for the buck.
You could use a JAD session as well.
Using CBS is really off topic, it is a tool for version control, the question here was about software life cycle training.
Is it April 1rst already?
Better future with .NET on the resume, MS is going to be dominant for next 5 years at least in the industry probably longer. PERL is on its way out, even if Linux completely dominates MS PERL will not be the dominate language of the future.
Plus all jobs get old, playing half-life may be fun at first, but you may find doing small projects by yourself gets boring after awhile.
I think the point was that the company would slash everything for short term gains and run the company into the ground. A pure tech company like MS could not live without research.
Maybe it's good for small things like that, but with web sites (unless you decide to use Javascript and make it interactive) you generally don't have the need for objects
This is oposite of the truth. OO gains more and more value for larger sites because you benefit from resusable code more and more. All "business logic" is best encased in objects.
If you need to do both you need two databases. A OLTP and OLAP database. Use the OLTP for data entry use the OLAP for datawarehouse. OLTP mainly optimized for fast inserting OLAP for fast querying.
I can buy capable dual-core servers for $500 Capable of what? Capable of not running raid or having memory installed.
Well this really depends what you are running. If it is a web server without session states stored in memory I seriously doubt end users would know you had a server failure. Now if it is something with connected session states like Oracle connections(I know busy db servers run poorly virtualized just an example) most likely all connections are gone and users need to reconnect.
Your on crack. There are managed web hosts all over the place for Windows/ASP/.NET I could post a few but everybody can use Google. Most major hosts over both. Also Apache has 70% because of domain parking.
about 1:3 - 1:5 ratio over other environs
How do you prove this?
Most CS instructors will cram down students' throats that if they concentrate on principles they can pick up any language/platform as if it's nothing at all. It's a lie, but that's what they say.
.Net development or vice versa. But to say an expert COBOL programmer could apply prinicples and pickup PHP easily would be a lie.
Well its true to a certain extent. I think somebody with a strong object oriented background could move from Java to
I would say though that somebody is better off concentrating on a few pieces of technology and going down that career path. There is really no value in being an expert COBOL, C, Java, VB, PHP, and PERL programmer who also knows Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and OS/400. Besides for the fact it would be almost impossible to keep up on the technologies there is no job that will require you to be an expert in all.