I am not saying no one should implement IPv6. I personally can't wait to see IPv4 completely dissapear. What I am trying to say is that government should be a bit more conservative when it comes to adopting new technologies due to the nature of the information that they process.
I think IPv6 is a great, but I personally believe it's too early for the government to switch over. They should really wait until this technology is widely used and tested and would definitely give Microsoft another 4-5 years to iron out at least 90% of the bugs caused by addition of IPv6 before I would even think of putting a Windows box on a IPv6 network.
Can you imagine government running Windows on an IPv6 network? Pretty scary...
This is funny, yet at the same time it's so true.
I've been a web developer for almost 7 years now, and it was fun for a while but now I absolutely hate it for all the reasons you mentioned and some more:
I hate constantly educating clients about how things work
I hate arguing over comments like "this really should not take this long to do, it's a simple change, all you have to do is move this HTML table". Go and do it yourself then!
I hate clients who constantly try to sneak in free changes here and there in their lists of comments.
All projects are different, yet they are all composed of same modules. They may look different, and have slightly different features, but in the end it's all same.
I hate sales for promising things that cannot be delivered.
I've been working for the same company for last 6 years, but for last 4 years I've been getting more and more into network/systems administration and I love it. Now I manage a data center of 40 servers and doing this is a lot more fun than coding and dealing with stupid clients.
I still get suckered into doing coding every once in a while but it's mainly maintenance/changes for projects I worked on over the years, and I am the only one who can do it fast, but that will go away eventually.
In relation to the original topic:
It is true that there are a lot of jobs out there for web developers, and since more and more applications are now web-based, I am sure there will be even more work out there. So if you are happy being a web developer, stay in this field.
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I am not saying no one should implement IPv6. I personally can't wait to see IPv4 completely dissapear. What I am trying to say is that government should be a bit more conservative when it comes to adopting new technologies due to the nature of the information that they process.
I think IPv6 is a great, but I personally believe it's too early for the government to switch over. They should really wait until this technology is widely used and tested and would definitely give Microsoft another 4-5 years to iron out at least 90% of the bugs caused by addition of IPv6 before I would even think of putting a Windows box on a IPv6 network.
Can you imagine government running Windows on an IPv6 network? Pretty scary...
- I hate constantly educating clients about how things work
- I hate arguing over comments like "this really should not take this long to do, it's a simple change, all you have to do is move this HTML table". Go and do it yourself then!
- I hate clients who constantly try to sneak in free changes here and there in their lists of comments.
- All projects are different, yet they are all composed of same modules. They may look different, and have slightly different features, but in the end it's all same.
- I hate sales for promising things that cannot be delivered.
I've been working for the same company for last 6 years, but for last 4 years I've been getting more and more into network/systems administration and I love it. Now I manage a data center of 40 servers and doing this is a lot more fun than coding and dealing with stupid clients.I still get suckered into doing coding every once in a while but it's mainly maintenance/changes for projects I worked on over the years, and I am the only one who can do it fast, but that will go away eventually.
In relation to the original topic:
It is true that there are a lot of jobs out there for web developers, and since more and more applications are now web-based, I am sure there will be even more work out there. So if you are happy being a web developer, stay in this field.
just my 2 cents