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@Wesley Ohi :-) I've been on vacation and just started the new job last week. I've also been scarce on SF in general, haven't found much time for it lately.

Heh

@MarkHenderson Even though a motorbike is usually the best getaway vehicle? :-P

@voretaq7 Mkay

What are we supposed to use instead of Too Localised now?

@MikeyB You can infer what I said from the responses ;)

Thanks. I need to keep things kinda quiet because if news gets out I may have a problem.

@freiheit Yup

Ugh, waited too long to delete that -- can a mod kill my FB message?

@WesleyDavid Indeed. Otherwise I would be out of here.

@WesleyDavid No, I actually can't. My visa can't be transferred to a different company.

@WesleyDavid The former. I can't really leave due to my visa situation.

@WesleyDavid Ugh. No.

@WesleyDavid Yup, I've been a bit scarce

@MichaelHampton Aww

@MichaelHampton Remote Arc-over-IP cattle prods??!

@WesleyDavid Oi!

@JourneymanGeek Then mention that! Add a Personal Projects section if you want to separate it.

Have you setup DNS/DHCP? Backup software? SElinux/AppArmor?

@JourneymanGeek What databases have you configured? What languages can you code in (even basic level)? Any CMS/applications?

:P

(And "LAMP" doesn't count.)

@JourneymanGeek Reading that as an interviewer, the only actual technologies I see are Ubuntu and Lighttpd -- I'm just saying that you need more of those.

@Jacob Then you got a bad interviewer :P

Personal projects are also good and should be mentioned :)

@JourneymanGeek That's fine, it doesn't have to be official -- just stuff that you've actually done.

@JourneymanGeek Try to mention some specific technologies and projects you've worked on; interviewers like to see tangible experience.

@WesleyDavid Ye, 2.6 or 2.7. As @JourneymanGeek says, there are still compatibility issues with libraries, so just look out for that.

@WesleyDavid I haven't touched Python 3 yet, but I hear that 3.3 is good enough to use now

@WesleyDavid I can't find it right now, I'll have to have a proper look sometime

@WesleyDavid I came across a good guide a while ago, let me try dig it up

Doing this web app side project has made me realise that I don't like CSS/JS, and so personally I'm going to avoid that stuff, but it can be the right approach.

@WesleyDavid It completely depends on the application -- it can be an appropriate choice. The UI for our cloud OS is a JS app and that works well. On the otherhand I don't think writing StackExchange like that is the right choice.

@WesleyDavid You mean a full client-side app with an API on the server instead of separately served pages?

@WesleyDavid There's plenty of other good stuff in it, even if you don't use the multi-site capabilities.

@WesleyDavid That's not the impression I got, and it's certainly not the case

@WesleyDavid There's certainly a lot of scope for doing web dev right; most of it is pretty crap TBH.

@WesleyDavid I have recently done a side project for someone which is a web app, using Django though.

@WesleyDavid Nope :)

@WesleyDavid Server side system management is how I'd describe it. It's kinda webby in that it uses HTTP/REST, but it's more a full app.

@WesleyDavid I'm not sure that it's necessary to start with a "beginner framework"; I'd probably suggest starting with Django anyway. They really do things right.

@WesleyDavid Indeed.

@WesleyDavid Yup, it's very flexible.

(Django FTFW BTW.)

@WesleyDavid Python is awesome for that, and the ecosystem is great

@WesleyDavid Indeed :P

@WesleyDavid Yeah, because those endorsements mean so much...

@WesleyDavid I may do.

@WesleyDavid Don't, it's very confusing

I see the cat is back