I was strictly a.NET programmer from, jeez, 1.0 up to almost v3. Loved the IDE, code base felt "bigger" than it needed to be for projects. My main issue was that the application on the server just dies a lot. And this wasnt just 1 app, at one company, my experience across multiple companies, multiple setups, it just seemed the the application would crash for no reason and need completely restarted pretty regularly.
Been on PHP/LAMP for several years now and that bastard never so much as went down once..NET/IIS might be better now, but that was my experience.
I stuck with FF through all the terrible updates for one reason and one reason only: Firebug
It was the most powerful development tool a web developer had. Easy to navigate, great debugger, smooth css editing, told you exactly what the problem was. The day it stopped worked I dumped FF and never looked back.
Chrome dev tools are acceptable but just hard to navigate and find things. Have made strides in capturing events.
"We forced excellence into the process"
"caused a paradigm shift in how engineers thought about problems"
"even if you fail sometimes, overall you are doing better"
Their highlighted case studies (https://gigster.com/success-stories) are quite funny. One of them is a "site down" page. The financial planning one breaks the second you change a value. The others are Twitter Bootstrap sites with minor modifications.
Success!
Shows with their Xbox idiocy too. They wanted "always on" this generation and are already talking digital only games for the next one. Not everyone has a 1GB fiber pipe you idiots.
My in-laws live in middle of nowhere Pennsylvania and had tried HughesNet for a few years but didn't like it. I told them to get one of the little wireless routers from Verizon, and they easily keep under their 2Gb limit.
Last month she's calling me wondering how in the world she could have gone over her limit, and how they are going to charge her $30 and this and that. After some investigation, turns out it was Win10 downloading.
Our science department has been using InterLACE to increase collaborative learning. I think they just moved to Visual Classrooms (http://visualclassrooms). They did some training on campus last year and it was still a research project at Tufts, now I believe its a real company. Basically it allows students to share ideas and the teacher to get a much better sense of the amount of contributions and interactions taking place when compared to the horrendous BlackBoard forums.
For sciences they have a lot of visual ways of sharing and comparing ideas and thinking. My students really like the way that it allows them to see how others approached a problem/lab, saves me time in that I dont have to explain as much.
First job out of college doing tech support for a big corp. One day thousands of Win2000 computers start taking multiple hours to boot up. Nobody can figure out what the problem is, got like 20 people working on it for almost two weeks.
After digging through logs and error messages I discover than some idiot who had denied doing anything had sent out an update via our client management software to add a new local user for support purposes. He didn't do this via a script, rather "recorded" him adding it to a machine and then sent out a copy of the files and registry entries that had changed. Unbeknownst to this genius, the local security database is an binary (pretty sure encrypted) file that you can't just go copying between machines.
I put together a script that repaired the local database and fixed the problem in a couple minutes. But literally had thousands of workers sitting around doing nothing waiting for computers to boot for like 2 weeks.
We visited the Sistene Chapel and the tour stops right outside the room and the guide is very clear "Be quiet and absolutely no flash photography" and then you walk in and its absolutely packed with people being loud and taking flash pictures.
Firebug is amazing in every way, if it didn't exist I wouldn't be a web developer. When there is a chrome specific issue and I have to use their debugger it is so very painful.
Abduction is another good one, lets you save any part of your browser to an image, quality is always better than screencapture.
driver improvements, RAID5/6 improvements for Btrfs, LZ4 compression for SquashFS, better multi-touch support, new input drivers, x86 laptop improvements
Not sure "new features" is the right summary of changes.
It doesn't do handwriting recognition, but InterLACE (int.erlace.com) is awesome on a smartboard/projector, especially for comparing student ideas. You can overlay sketches from different students, really good for graphs and diagrams.
Docker defines an abstraction for these machine-specific settings, so that the exact same Docker container can run - unchanged - on many different machines, with many different configurations.
So a newer, spiffier version of Java. Great!
I know people who spend all this time "docker-ing" a web app, and I ask them why and they say "I can deploy it to any machine in like no time." Ok, so how many servers do you have. "One"
Slashdot Mirror
So the programming language for people who dont know how to code isn't doing well. Who would have thought?
The reasoning is because Apple did it?
Apple has to fit its chip into a 4 oz container slightly larger than a credit card. You've got an entire f'in car, put 100 chips in it genius.
Any student from the school can attend Univ of Akron for free.
I was strictly a .NET programmer from, jeez, 1.0 up to almost v3. Loved the IDE, code base felt "bigger" than it needed to be for projects. My main issue was that the application on the server just dies a lot. And this wasnt just 1 app, at one company, my experience across multiple companies, multiple setups, it just seemed the the application would crash for no reason and need completely restarted pretty regularly.
.NET/IIS might be better now, but that was my experience.
Been on PHP/LAMP for several years now and that bastard never so much as went down once.
...we officially support trampling rules and privacy in the name of oligarch profits.
I stuck with FF through all the terrible updates for one reason and one reason only: Firebug
It was the most powerful development tool a web developer had. Easy to navigate, great debugger, smooth css editing, told you exactly what the problem was. The day it stopped worked I dumped FF and never looked back.
Chrome dev tools are acceptable but just hard to navigate and find things. Have made strides in capturing events.
Several professors where I did grad school used Visual Classrooms (https://visualclassrooms.com) to capture in-class discussions and group work.
Its pretty cool, can sketch, take pics, vote.
Hilariously full of idiot speak:
"We forced excellence into the process"
"caused a paradigm shift in how engineers thought about problems"
"even if you fail sometimes, overall you are doing better"
Their highlighted case studies (https://gigster.com/success-stories) are quite funny. One of them is a "site down" page. The financial planning one breaks the second you change a value. The others are Twitter Bootstrap sites with minor modifications. Success!
Shows with their Xbox idiocy too. They wanted "always on" this generation and are already talking digital only games for the next one. Not everyone has a 1GB fiber pipe you idiots.
My in-laws live in middle of nowhere Pennsylvania and had tried HughesNet for a few years but didn't like it. I told them to get one of the little wireless routers from Verizon, and they easily keep under their 2Gb limit.
Last month she's calling me wondering how in the world she could have gone over her limit, and how they are going to charge her $30 and this and that. After some investigation, turns out it was Win10 downloading.
Yeah, thats some shit right there.
Our science department has been using InterLACE to increase collaborative learning. I think they just moved to Visual Classrooms (http://visualclassrooms). They did some training on campus last year and it was still a research project at Tufts, now I believe its a real company. Basically it allows students to share ideas and the teacher to get a much better sense of the amount of contributions and interactions taking place when compared to the horrendous BlackBoard forums.
For sciences they have a lot of visual ways of sharing and comparing ideas and thinking. My students really like the way that it allows them to see how others approached a problem/lab, saves me time in that I dont have to explain as much.
First job out of college doing tech support for a big corp. One day thousands of Win2000 computers start taking multiple hours to boot up. Nobody can figure out what the problem is, got like 20 people working on it for almost two weeks.
After digging through logs and error messages I discover than some idiot who had denied doing anything had sent out an update via our client management software to add a new local user for support purposes. He didn't do this via a script, rather "recorded" him adding it to a machine and then sent out a copy of the files and registry entries that had changed. Unbeknownst to this genius, the local security database is an binary (pretty sure encrypted) file that you can't just go copying between machines.
I put together a script that repaired the local database and fixed the problem in a couple minutes. But literally had thousands of workers sitting around doing nothing waiting for computers to boot for like 2 weeks.
Good news everybody, people aren't installing our broken and insecure updates!
We visited the Sistene Chapel and the tour stops right outside the room and the guide is very clear "Be quiet and absolutely no flash photography" and then you walk in and its absolutely packed with people being loud and taking flash pictures.
"As soon as the programmer is finished"
You're a company the size of Lenovo and you've got one dude working on it? Does he get to do QA and deployment too?
Firebug is amazing in every way, if it didn't exist I wouldn't be a web developer. When there is a chrome specific issue and I have to use their debugger it is so very painful.
Abduction is another good one, lets you save any part of your browser to an image, quality is always better than screencapture.
Breaking news: If someone gets root access they can install things. Also breaking: bad guys will try to login with root.
PHP runs facebook, yahoo, wordpress, and wikipedia. Javascript runs everything on the internet. Yup, no value there.
"I was home schooled and I'm totally normal!" - Said many times.
"I'm friends with someone who was home schooled and they are totally normal" - Said 0 times
I mean, have you ever met a normal one? Case closed.
Not sure "new features" is the right summary of changes.
if (os.startsWith("Windows 9") || os.equals("Windows Me")) {
ShootYourself();
}
It doesn't do handwriting recognition, but InterLACE (int.erlace.com) is awesome on a smartboard/projector, especially for comparing student ideas. You can overlay sketches from different students, really good for graphs and diagrams.
Docker defines an abstraction for these machine-specific settings, so that the exact same Docker container can run - unchanged - on many different machines, with many different configurations.
So a newer, spiffier version of Java. Great!
I know people who spend all this time "docker-ing" a web app, and I ask them why and they say "I can deploy it to any machine in like no time." Ok, so how many servers do you have. "One"