[Tfug] Defragging *nix

[Tim Ottinger]

yeah.  I refer to google as "the smart guy".  Of course, that make me....

Anyway, I'm /very/ not a Java programmer.  I was riding the wave and living
the life when the world was C and C++ and "everyone" was using Unix of some
form or another.  Then I jumped off and went to Python for full-time work,
with a spattering of other unix-ish languages.  A little C, a little perl, a
lot of bash, a good chunk of python.  Backend-like processes, command lines,
control systems, lots of fun stuff.  Eight or nine years later I return to
the world, which in the meantime became entirely populated by web
programmers (I've never done a web app) and entirely dominated by people who
have only ever worked in Java and related technology and terms.  I feel like
I returned to the stone ages, but this time they speak Finnish.  Python is
so far ahead of C++ and Java and C#  in terms of usability.  Sigh.  Now I
have to learn to run with my shoelaces tied together.

I have no idea what Flash CS3, Javascript, or EJBs look like.    =B-o

I came back as an agile software consultant, which also has its share of new
things to learn.  I have to pick up new languages, tools, and techniques
because a chunk of the world that pays consultants is still stuck in
Windoze, while I am simultaneously catching up on old (and fading)
languages, tools, and techniques like Java.  :-/

Ah, well, it's an interesting life.  If I didn't like learning new stuff all
the time, I should have gotten a CPA.



On 10/29/07, George Cohn <gwcohn at simplybits.net> wrote:
>
> Tim Ottinger wrote:
> >
> > The worst part is not understanding the words they use when they tell
> you
> > what it works.
> > Huh? JSON? AJAX? DI Frameworks?
> >
>
> Like Harry McGregor said when I was taking his Linux classes at Pima,
> "Remember, Google is your friend."  ;-)
>
> My wife gets annoyed when she asks me a weird question and I type it
> into Google to get an answer. She asked me last night what RICO stood
> for while watching CSI. Really amazing what it will find.
>
> JSON gives me 7,880,000 hits, many of them having to do with JavaScript
> Object Notation.  Ajax seems to be Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and
> DI Frameworks seems to be Dependency Injection Frameworks for Java.
>
> I take it you are a Java programmer?  Something I've wanted to learn is
> Java and especially JavaScript.
>
> Right now I am trying to learn Flash CS3 to create YouTube like
> applications.
>
> George Cohn
>
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