I know this isn't the hub of technology, but when you graduate #2 from Penn State with a 4.0, have 8 years of experience, glowing references, and still have an impossible time finding employment something is wrong.
It's a big country... You might want to consider seeing it. Someone with your background shouldn't have a difficult time finding work in the midwest. Search http://dice.com/!
We've been sitting on two open positions for going on 2 months now looking for qualified developers.
Out of curiousity, what do you consider to be qualified? I know a lot of C programmers and Java programmers that would happily take a.NET job if it meant you could give them a little time to learn the syntax.
Read between the lines on a resume. Don't reject someone with 10 years of C programming. A good.NET developer =! certified.NET developer.
Also, it seems that many people going to college for computer science/engineering aren't even learning the basics -- what colleges have you recent graduates gone to that have taught you real consulting skills, business sense and responsibility?
I'm 28 years old and in college right now. (I dropped out during the.com boom to chase the almighty dollar, and now I have a decent resume and skillset to hold some water).
I can honestly tell you that I built some of the best training, skills, & experience from a combination of on the job, self study, and peers. So what am I seeing at my well respected university? There are a lot of great professors... But I'm not learning anything relevant to the real world. In fact, most Sams & Wrox books would give you a better understanding than the courses I'm taking. Most of my professors went from college, to grad school, to teaching.
My point: College isn't going to teach you "real consulting skills, business sense and responsibility?". College will (at best) lower the learning curve for the real education when you hit the workforce. If I were you, I'd encourage more on the job training.
FTFA, "Some businesses may in fact regret some of the job cuts they made in recent years, which, in retrospect, may have been too deep. Recent surveys suggest that employers are having an increasingly difficult time finding information technology (IT) workers."
I was laid off in the fall of 2004 because it was determined that the company could outsource our System Admins and Database Admins to a domestic contractor and co-locate to save a couple bucks in the long run. (You can convince any executive to do anything, BTW, if you have a good PowerPoint ROI chart, laser pointer, and $800 suit).
Long story short, the fine print in the contract stated that only 2 major systems would be outsourced (which amounted to about 40% of the total workload), and after everyone was laid off, the contractor says, "Now... You know that we're not going to handle email, NAS, web services, and other misc systems, correct?"
Needless to say, they're now locked into a 5 year multi-million dollar contract, AND have hired back new system admins to replace the layoffs. I'm not bitter... But it still makes me smile anyway... =)
Just cause this guy can't is no reason to stereotype the rest of us.
How do you know that you just don't fit the sterotype? I know a few programmers with similar lifestyles as yours... But I know A LOT of programmers (myself included) who match the sterotype... Hence, sterotype...
I suggest that you get your foot in the door any way you can, smile while they dump sh!t on your head, show them that you're there for more than a paycheck, and most importantly, stick with it. As you demonstrate your commitment you will quickly be given more responsibility, money, and a more secure career.
This is assuming you're in a company that doesn't suffer from nepotism, doesn't reward unethical behavoir, and will be financially stable for more than 10 years. Companies like this (in my no-empirical-data-supported opinion) are very very very rare. Companies no longer shake your hand and appreciate a job well done. It's more about how happy the investors are...
What's the general opinion? If the majority of casual surfers used Firefox or other alternative, would reverse engineers switch focus to those apps?
If the goal is to infect the most systems, then by defualt, you'd avoid Mozilla or Konqueror simply because (at best) you could only hope to control a fraction of machines with active internet connections. Maybe this question has been asked before...
An option of last resort is to take an end-run around this guy and hire a consultant. Sometimes people will listen to advice if they know they're paying for it.
In my experience (unfortunately) this is the best option. It's kind of like fighting fire with fire... Except you're fighting ignorance with ignorance.
At my previous work place, it took a team of IBM security consultants (at an unholy hourly rate), to convince our (mis)director of IT that it was actually a *bad* idea to dispense VPN client software installation packages from an anonymous FTP server. The consultants 0wn3ed our production systems in about an hour...
I'd be a little worried if I were asked to show the ROI of any web site that wasn't specifically for an on-line retailer. How did you show the ROI on a large, wooden, hand carved sign in the 1600's?
A web site (as simple or complex as it may be) is a marketing tool for a business. And anyone with an MBA or equivalent experience will tell you that developing an ROI on a marketing campaign is nearly impossible, at best.
As for "how many" developers it's going to take... Check out today's story, 60% Of Windows Vista Code To Be Rewritten, which has some great advice about how to get 9 women pregnant and have a baby in 1 month. (Or was that "getting 5 Jazz players pregnant"? I don't remember...)
How many of us learned the hard way that brick blocks aren't only very hard to break with your bare hands... But they also rarely conceal hidden gold coins. My poor disfigured knuckles. DAMN YOU MARIO!!!
So wait... When McDonalds shoots photos of their giant delicious burgers, they don't just grab the next big mac off the line and snap a shot? They grill a prime patty to perfection with delicately sliced tomatos and onions and put it together like it was "staged" or something!? BOO!
French President Jacques Chirac is making plans for a European search engine
"Quaero quickly surrenders its data centers to Google" "Quaero results limited to wine, cheese, and speedo pics of Jerard Depardieu" "Quaero snubs American visitors... But still loves Levi's, Coke, and American Pop Culture"
Why do God and Science have to be mutually exclusive?
Good point. I am both a chemical engineer and Christian. Having gone through the public school system during the 90's and then a state university from 2000-2004, I have definitely seen my share of evolutionary theory. Allthough I don't personally believe in macroevolution, there's plenty of good evidence for microevolution (or adaptation within a species), and I also never saw a conflict with traditional Christian beliefs on creation and natural adaptation and functionality.
PS - My freshman biology professor said on the first day of class, "About 60% of what you learn this semester is wrong." He went on to explain that science is constantly revising and improving its theories and that if history can teach us anything, it's that every generation of scientists think they know it all.
Not to jab at the spirit of TFA, but how many unique downloads does this equate to? What does 100M downloads really mean? I've downloaded Firefox dozens of times since v1.0 because of system rebuilds or other reasons. I have to imagine that other sys admins and power users out there have downloaded it more times than me for the same reason(s).
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AHH! Damn rover cost me 20G's! My bookie's gunna break my legs...
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I know this isn't the hub of technology, but when you graduate #2 from Penn State with a 4.0, have 8 years of experience, glowing references, and still have an impossible time finding employment something is wrong.
It's a big country... You might want to consider seeing it. Someone with your background shouldn't have a difficult time finding work in the midwest. Search http://dice.com/!
We've been sitting on two open positions for going on 2 months now looking for qualified developers.
.NET job if it meant you could give them a little time to learn the syntax.
.NET developer =! certified .NET developer.
Out of curiousity, what do you consider to be qualified? I know a lot of C programmers and Java programmers that would happily take a
Read between the lines on a resume. Don't reject someone with 10 years of C programming. A good
Also, it seems that many people going to college for computer science/engineering aren't even learning the basics -- what colleges have you recent graduates gone to that have taught you real consulting skills, business sense and responsibility?
.com boom to chase the almighty dollar, and now I have a decent resume and skillset to hold some water).
I'm 28 years old and in college right now. (I dropped out during the
I can honestly tell you that I built some of the best training, skills, & experience from a combination of on the job, self study, and peers. So what am I seeing at my well respected university? There are a lot of great professors... But I'm not learning anything relevant to the real world. In fact, most Sams & Wrox books would give you a better understanding than the courses I'm taking. Most of my professors went from college, to grad school, to teaching.
My point: College isn't going to teach you "real consulting skills, business sense and responsibility?". College will (at best) lower the learning curve for the real education when you hit the workforce. If I were you, I'd encourage more on the job training.
FTFA, "Some businesses may in fact regret some of the job cuts they made in recent years, which, in retrospect, may have been too deep. Recent surveys suggest that employers are having an increasingly difficult time finding information technology (IT) workers."
I was laid off in the fall of 2004 because it was determined that the company could outsource our System Admins and Database Admins to a domestic contractor and co-locate to save a couple bucks in the long run. (You can convince any executive to do anything, BTW, if you have a good PowerPoint ROI chart, laser pointer, and $800 suit).
Long story short, the fine print in the contract stated that only 2 major systems would be outsourced (which amounted to about 40% of the total workload), and after everyone was laid off, the contractor says, "Now... You know that we're not going to handle email, NAS, web services, and other misc systems, correct?"
Needless to say, they're now locked into a 5 year multi-million dollar contract, AND have hired back new system admins to replace the layoffs. I'm not bitter... But it still makes me smile anyway... =)
Just cause this guy can't is no reason to stereotype the rest of us.
How do you know that you just don't fit the sterotype? I know a few programmers with similar lifestyles as yours... But I know A LOT of programmers (myself included) who match the sterotype... Hence, sterotype...
I suggest that you get your foot in the door any way you can, smile while they dump sh!t on your head, show them that you're there for more than a paycheck, and most importantly, stick with it. As you demonstrate your commitment you will quickly be given more responsibility, money, and a more secure career.
This is assuming you're in a company that doesn't suffer from nepotism, doesn't reward unethical behavoir, and will be financially stable for more than 10 years. Companies like this (in my no-empirical-data-supported opinion) are very very very rare. Companies no longer shake your hand and appreciate a job well done. It's more about how happy the investors are...
Check the users/bugs ratio between IIS and Apache.
What does IIS/Apache have to do with IE/Firefox?
What's the general opinion? If the majority of casual surfers used Firefox or other alternative, would reverse engineers switch focus to those apps?
If the goal is to infect the most systems, then by defualt, you'd avoid Mozilla or Konqueror simply because (at best) you could only hope to control a fraction of machines with active internet connections. Maybe this question has been asked before...
I'm the only App and Web(intranet -php/mysql / internet -jsp/Oracle) developer
If you're already running php/mysql, surely you can take something from SourceForge as a fully functional solution!
An option of last resort is to take an end-run around this guy and hire a consultant. Sometimes people will listen to advice if they know they're paying for it.
In my experience (unfortunately) this is the best option. It's kind of like fighting fire with fire... Except you're fighting ignorance with ignorance.
At my previous work place, it took a team of IBM security consultants (at an unholy hourly rate), to convince our (mis)director of IT that it was actually a *bad* idea to dispense VPN client software installation packages from an anonymous FTP server. The consultants 0wn3ed our production systems in about an hour...
I'd be a little worried if I were asked to show the ROI of any web site that wasn't specifically for an on-line retailer. How did you show the ROI on a large, wooden, hand carved sign in the 1600's?
A web site (as simple or complex as it may be) is a marketing tool for a business. And anyone with an MBA or equivalent experience will tell you that developing an ROI on a marketing campaign is nearly impossible, at best.
As for "how many" developers it's going to take... Check out today's story, 60% Of Windows Vista Code To Be Rewritten, which has some great advice about how to get 9 women pregnant and have a baby in 1 month. (Or was that "getting 5 Jazz players pregnant"? I don't remember...)
The the debate over evolution... BEGIN!
How many of us learned the hard way that brick blocks aren't only very hard to break with your bare hands... But they also rarely conceal hidden gold coins. My poor disfigured knuckles. DAMN YOU MARIO!!!
So wait... When McDonalds shoots photos of their giant delicious burgers, they don't just grab the next big mac off the line and snap a shot? They grill a prime patty to perfection with delicately sliced tomatos and onions and put it together like it was "staged" or something!? BOO!
French President Jacques Chirac is making plans for a European search engine
"Quaero quickly surrenders its data centers to Google"
"Quaero results limited to wine, cheese, and speedo pics of Jerard Depardieu"
"Quaero snubs American visitors... But still loves Levi's, Coke, and American Pop Culture"
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=52&ch apter=14&verse=11&version=31&context=verse
You believe in macroevolution? Here's 29+ cases against it. http://www.trueorigin.org/theobald1b.asp
Why do God and Science have to be mutually exclusive?
Good point. I am both a chemical engineer and Christian. Having gone through the public school system during the 90's and then a state university from 2000-2004, I have definitely seen my share of evolutionary theory. Allthough I don't personally believe in macroevolution, there's plenty of good evidence for microevolution (or adaptation within a species), and I also never saw a conflict with traditional Christian beliefs on creation and natural adaptation and functionality.
PS - My freshman biology professor said on the first day of class, "About 60% of what you learn this semester is wrong." He went on to explain that science is constantly revising and improving its theories and that if history can teach us anything, it's that every generation of scientists think they know it all.
Speaking of that game... I was playing last year and noticed that Jerry Rice was still an active player for Seattle at the time. It blew my mind!
But the NES was a hit, controlling a healthy 90 percent of the U.S. home videogame industry at the peak of its popularity
And I still have the bad report cards to prove it!
"Why not obstain if you have nothing useful to say."
If everyone took this advice then Slashdot would see their posts cut by 90% =P
ASP.NET Web Matrix at http://www.asp.net/
I'll probably get ripped a new one for recommending something M$ but if you're coding anything in .NET, the Web Matrix is pretty good.
http://www.asp.net/
Not to jab at the spirit of TFA, but how many unique downloads does this equate to? What does 100M downloads really mean? I've downloaded Firefox dozens of times since v1.0 because of system rebuilds or other reasons. I have to imagine that other sys admins and power users out there have downloaded it more times than me for the same reason(s).