@nhinkle that's my impression from watching the girly do it. It seems to work pretty well for "HTML is hard" and ok for "I can debug CSS if I have to" (which seems to be necessary if you want half the darn plugins to work)
@alex both my personal site (pretty simple) and bike lights site (not as simple) are built on Django with some apps (packages) installed to do some things and a lot of custom code on top.
@alex not hard. If they run apache you can probably get python working, although it was bloody slow when I was on bluehost and running it with fastcgi. Now I'm on webfaction. Affordable, fast, good support, good servers. Everything's behind cloudflare too.
WTF suggesting edits in comments rather than submitting them for approval?
I should sit down at some point and grind through some website technology stuff just to have an idea what's out there and how ugly it is to set up and run. Right now I have NFI, but everything I've been shown people explain that it needs ridiculous server hardware just to run at all so I'm a bit put off. But ridiculous hardware is common now so I should just suck it up.
yeah, I'm pretty much at "what, I can't run it on a stock Pi?"
I mean, our brand-new-second-hand server for a particularly badly written application we have yet to replace (it's on my list) is four, quad-core processors, 128GB RAM, 4x480GB SSDs running RAID 10, Because, F you badly written piece of junk, we can defat you by spending $5000 on hardware.
Today was not a good day at work. Was asking one director about a new quirk in the spec'o'the'day when another director burst in and started swearing at him. I left. Later I was briefing gradboy when first director arrived and started putting his imprint on the briefing. When I asked him to please just leave it be he got seriously grumpy with me and said "this has to work by monday or we re-evaluate the project". Things went downhill from there.
Still, an hour or so of seriously hard-core discussion with him later, I think we have worked some of the bugs out of our relationship. I hope, anyway. He's not a bad guy, just some of his quirks work badly with mine... we both struggle to shut up and listen, and neither of us can sit in a meeting without putting our aor in. But he does the "I am the boss, you will listen to me"... yeah, and that's why we try to have meetings when you're not around.
GradBoy was very close to walking out of work today. Boss really needed to STFU and if he couldn't do that, walk away. Telling him that really set him off.
Good embedded C skills for firmware and embedded design/development An excellent knowledge of C# and other .NET tools and technologies Web application development experience (ASP.NET, HTML, Javascript etc)
Yup, that's right, all the way fr4om embedded C to HTML!
but actually IT hiring market state at its present moment scares me
so much so that I wish to run away from IT as soon as possible
too many companies are hiring a sysadmin but make the interviews worth good university exam
when I was looking for a job a company required me to rework their jukebox program written in awful C++
the rework possible there was extensive so I did some along the general lines and wrote more or less extensive document on what to do next there because reworking that in the timeframe given would be either impossible or give very low quality code
finally they said I do not fit them, because I did not apply some <enter a name> OO technique which they thought is absolutely must there
:)
the problem is that too many companies are asking for such stuff - array sorting algorithms, design models, network protocol stack details and so on - in fact even if nothing of it will be ever used in the actual work
trying to find out a person who will write a good code... but in fact they just choose a person who was lucky to remember a particular thing asked. Lottery for both sides.
Such hiring would be as efficient as if they just hire without interview.
in fact I think it is much more important to know if the person to be hired knows some basic programming (if they are supposed to write programs), have experience of programming and if the person is clever enough to catch up quickly, because every company is different and no universal tactics are ever in use.
@Mσᶎ just looked at that job spec, they'll have fun finding someone, there's pretty much mutually exclusive skills in there
....as I see you just wrote!
@Rilakkuma is that a rant I see????? Calm yourself, please, it's the weekend
@nhinkle stack overflow careers? that's a new one on me, I'll have to head over there when I decide tojump back on the merry-ho-round
@alex that's a good way of looking at it though. I know the difference between good development and bad development, so I will try to find out how a company does development, and judge for myself.
There's really two questions - how do these guys rate on the covboy scale? and, what scope is there for me to improve things?
/cowboy/
Talking about "agile" is a good one these days. Most people will say they either do it or want to do it, but everyine means something different by it, and other than a vague "deliver more quickly" (which I think is not necessarily correct) people are unable to say what gains they expect to see from it
thanks @nhinkle, got straight in with my SE account. But did a search for architect/London and the top hit was titled "Front End Web Developer"......might have to come up with a more specific search!
@nhinkle do you know what the difference is between jobs on white/blue backgrounds?
