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I've been coding for 25 years as a consultant for hundreds of companies.
All code is crap. The best you can hope for is to get home by 5:00 on Friday and do something that should really matter to you.
Can I create effecient, nicely structured code? Sure - and then some minimum wage programmer from 'Elbnonia' comes along the next day and mucks it up - with no accountability.
Do yourself a favor and accept these facts now - and you'll save yourself a lifetime of pain and disapointment.
If you want to create something of quality, which will last - become a musician or an artist or a poet - or better yet - go and volunteer at a homeless shelter or food bank.
Resistance is futile - you will be assimilated!
A final nail in the coffin for traditional Unix. Now, Microsoft scales from tiny devices running in watches, to super-computers!
Even changes to Windows 2008 servers allow administrators to run the OS on routers (without a UI, even solitare is removed).
The arguments for Unix in any data center are almost gone.
I am 43 years old. I have been programming for over 25 years but just can't keep up with the new "state of the art" programming techniques/APIs and frameworks that seem to come out every year.
When I was young and hungry, I would spend my nights reading computer books and newslists. Now that I know I'm mortal, I just don't want to do this anymore.
I spent 20 years learning C++, Java and.NET - but just don't want to relearn how to do my job over and over again.
Am I a dinosaur? - perhaps, but I'm also yet another experienced developer who is sick of the constant change and will be soon making the move into "management".
Perhaps, this is the reason why at 43, I'm considered an 'old dude' amoungst my peers!
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I've GIVEN some great, and somewhat bad talks in my day - every good speaker will tell you the same thing.
Most of the bad talks were situations where I was asked to sub for someone - or an area where I "WANTED" to be an expert - but really wasn't.
Many times, after a talk, I find that something I said was just plain wrong - it happens - to everyone - even the best speakers out there.
They key is, as an attendee, to not sit around and waste time listening to a bad speaker. I just quietly walk out, picking up an evaluation form in the process, and making sure the instructor gets my feedback.
As an occasional bad speaker - the best thing an audience member can do for me is to let me know if I have gotten it wrong!
In the end, the only way tp turn a bad speaker into a good one - is through feedback - even if it is "YOU SUCK!"
I always think it's funny when people say that "Web 2.0" technologies are going to put Microsoft out of business. In fact, Microsoft OWA (Outlook Web Access) is by far the most popular, and in my opinion one of the best, AJAX programs released to date.
It would be much easier for Apple to move in that direction by implementing their own version of the Microsoft.NET CLR. This is a 'public' set of interfaces that is now being implemented in Rotor 2.0. None of the ISVs I work with today are developing anything but.NET code for the Microsoft platform. Sure - there is a great deal of interop remaining for COM+ and Win32 - but most companies have realized the ROI of moving to a managed environment like Java or.NET, and don't want to go back to the bad ole days of C coding.
Having.NET on the Apple could actually go a long way to bringing MACs into corporate environments, as companies would demand 'portable'.NET code.
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Comments don't matter. I've been coding for 25 years as a consultant for hundreds of companies. All code is crap. The best you can hope for is to get home by 5:00 on Friday and do something that should really matter to you. Can I create effecient, nicely structured code? Sure - and then some minimum wage programmer from 'Elbnonia' comes along the next day and mucks it up - with no accountability. Do yourself a favor and accept these facts now - and you'll save yourself a lifetime of pain and disapointment. If you want to create something of quality, which will last - become a musician or an artist or a poet - or better yet - go and volunteer at a homeless shelter or food bank.
Resistance is futile - you will be assimilated! A final nail in the coffin for traditional Unix. Now, Microsoft scales from tiny devices running in watches, to super-computers! Even changes to Windows 2008 servers allow administrators to run the OS on routers (without a UI, even solitare is removed). The arguments for Unix in any data center are almost gone.
I am 43 years old. I have been programming for over 25 years but just can't keep up with the new "state of the art" programming techniques/APIs and frameworks that seem to come out every year. When I was young and hungry, I would spend my nights reading computer books and newslists. Now that I know I'm mortal, I just don't want to do this anymore. I spent 20 years learning C++, Java and .NET - but just don't want to relearn how to do my job over and over again.
Am I a dinosaur? - perhaps, but I'm also yet another experienced developer who is sick of the constant change and will be soon making the move into "management".
Perhaps, this is the reason why at 43, I'm considered an 'old dude' amoungst my peers!
I've GIVEN some great, and somewhat bad talks in my day - every good speaker will tell you the same thing.
Most of the bad talks were situations where I was asked to sub for someone - or an area where I "WANTED" to be an expert - but really wasn't.
Many times, after a talk, I find that something I said was just plain wrong - it happens - to everyone - even the best speakers out there.
They key is, as an attendee, to not sit around and waste time listening to a bad speaker. I just quietly walk out, picking up an evaluation form in the process, and making sure the instructor gets my feedback.
As an occasional bad speaker - the best thing an audience member can do for me is to let me know if I have gotten it wrong! In the end, the only way tp turn a bad speaker into a good one - is through feedback - even if it is "YOU SUCK!"
I always think it's funny when people say that "Web 2.0" technologies are going to put Microsoft out of business. In fact, Microsoft OWA (Outlook Web Access) is by far the most popular, and in my opinion one of the best, AJAX programs released to date.
It would be much easier for Apple to move in that direction by implementing their own version of the Microsoft .NET CLR. This is a 'public' set of interfaces that is now being implemented in Rotor 2.0. None of the ISVs I work with today are developing anything but .NET code for the Microsoft platform. Sure - there is a great deal of interop remaining for COM+ and Win32 - but most companies have realized the ROI of moving to a managed environment like Java or .NET, and don't want to go back to the bad ole days of C coding.
Having .NET on the Apple could actually go a long way to bringing MACs into corporate environments, as companies would demand 'portable' .NET code.