[ale] First look at Winders 8

[Jonathan Meek]

As a newcomer, i am faced with an interesting challenge before me: learn
.NET/C# in order to become a programmer in my current employment or do I
learn Java/C++/Perl/Ruby and try my chances elsewhere?

My passion is computers and i fear being struck into a cast of M$ developer
only. I want to write code because it's a great mental exercise, not just
for the money.

Any good thoughts on where to start? Side note: Planning to finish a M.S.
in computer science in July, paid by my employer with no commitment to stay
after completion.

Jonathan
 On Dec 27, 2012 11:13 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Charles Shapiro
> <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > OTOH I have been struggling with Eclipse and Android for a couple of days
> > now.  I've gotten it to believe that my "Hello World" app is actually a
> > project, but it won't re-generate the R.java file, which is created from
> the
> > various and sundry XML files which specify things like screens and
> strings.
> > It's an ongoing wrangle, but I could sure use someone who really knows
> > Eclipse, even though I've already created the application at the
> > command-line.
> >
>
> Eclipse: when a luminous body is obscured from view.
>
>
> > -- CHS
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Shapiro waxed poetic:
> >>
> >>> So heck, maybes this is the Way the World will Go, and us happy
> >>> hard-workin' coders will merely be weird old fossils in a universe of
> >>> sunglasses-wearing HTML writers.
> >>
> >>
> >> In the real world, where bandwidth, CPU, memory,
> >> and -long term- reliability and maintainability are issues,
> >> fossils like us kick ass,
> >>
> >> I can get more done with just a shell on a far away linux system than
> most
> >> "developers" can do using the latest IDE and kewl language of the week.
> >>
> >> 10 lines of perl can be a powerful thing.
> >>
> >> Three weeks ago I tought a young man to not trust his IDE with all the
> >> supported options and commands. His code would not connect. It did not
> have:
> >> CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST as options in his
> IDE, he
> >> did not RTFM. While the people that built the drop down pick-list of PHP
> >> options may have had valid reasons for not including these standard
> options,
> >> he had become so dependant upon these crutches he was limited by them.
> He
> >> had to connect to an internal IP address with a self-signed cert.
> Impossible
> >> he said.. He was not comfortable with a shell on the production server,
> or
> >> scp.. or.. or.. and was cutting and pasting code chunks from Eclipse
> into a
> >> server side web based file browser.... But he was very bright.
> >>
> >> A recent email from Antony exposes that he is playing with ssh, scp,
> >> Geany, jEdit and vi and learning to "get naked with code" in his words.
> >> Antony is starting to understand where an IDE is useful, and that there
> >> are sometimes more appropriate options. It is A tool, it should not be
> >> your only tool.
> >>
> >> The role of us old fossils is to expose follies and teach.
> >> Sometimes with a clue bat in our hands.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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