My wife Burcin found this website wow it totally expanded our minds as to what an interactive mobile website can do asafuturescape.org
And their home page Asa.org
Really the pinnacle of contemporary mobile website design
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And their home page Asa.org
Really the pinnacle of contemporary mobile website design
Even if they are well meaning and fair, eventually they will hit a comprehension limit. At that point arbitration for any technical debate should be escalated to a board of suitably qualified people, but they will be unwilling or literally unable to do it. Eventually as a consequence bad technical decisions will be made.
That's the best case scenario. In the worst case scenario you're already undergoing, your boss has no clue who's the better dev or why in your team.
There's also one in Paris where you visit BlaBlaCar and Airbnb Paris https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/946
It's hard to see the value of the cultural experience economy until you jump in headfirst. Come check it out Pedalpete!
I've now resolved to just go out on my own because it's too painful working for anyone else in this curious position of great responsibility but not enough power.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/allow-forei...
Please sign it if you are so inclined
A former colleague of mine when he was in high school I guess in a fit of bravado decided to name change himself to just his first name. While a great idea and good for him that he followed through, no software was able to accept his new "McLovin'" style single name. #validation #epic #fail.
His first job ... for the sake of anecdote let's say his name was Andy ... his first job ... on all his job identification ... id badge, enterprise login, payroll, tax forms etc ... he was identified as FNU Andy, with FNU being an acronym for "First Name Unknown".
LOL
Then I got a Core II Duo 2.4 Ghz Dell running WS 2008 (fantastic OS I say) ... and with dual 24" and 19" monitors. I use synergy to mouse and keyboard across all.
The entire Dev and Prod environments are faraway linux boxen so technically I can do everything remotely.
Occasionally I take the laptop and stand by the window, where a platform serves as my "standing desk"
I believe in CA the following holds true (from a comment in the above thread) but am not a lawyer and DO NOT KNOW FOR SURE: "The normal situation with freelance programming is that the client will own the source code. That being said--depending on jurisdiction and many other factors--if it's not specified in any contract it will often default to the freelance programmer."
Switch between those and open-ended questions and you should be ok. About 1/3 ppl who I chat w like that chat back. 1/3 you could force it (and sometimes forcing it is worth it, since this is how you build up the game) and 1/3 are plain not down, but ignore those fools or switch to a more advanced game.
Instead of trying to control the craving or stop thinking about cigarettes, you have your brain evaluate the "should I smoke right now?" question with the answer _no_. Once I did that, I found quitting smoking surprisingly easy. I still think about it quite a bit, but so far I haven't strayed from the correct answer even a little bit.
Regular exercise right at the beginning will help you ride out the initial physical cravings. Within a week your lungs feel much better and you're way more alert etc etc so the virtuous loop is in place and that's where I am and so far it feels pretty good.
This extreme flexibility coupled with mature libraries makes web app development ridiculously easy. For a complex application that starts at ground zero I would probably recommend Ruby or Python but really even that decision is 50-50. We've faced this crossroads 3 times in the last couple months and 2/3 we've gone with PHP over Python, and not just cos of familiarity.
For any existing app, it's probably already in PHP or something worse like ColdFusion, so migrating it to "good" PHP 5.x is usually the only logical step.
That said threading, namespaces, sickening magic and the whole haystack/needle needle/haystack game SUCK. But you can get everything done quick and everything will scale and if you need to change it you know you always can without tearing down a house of cards so ... I for one don't mind it, in fact I quite like PHP and the PHP ecosystem.
1. Do some jQuery tutorials and really bone up on flashy javascript.
2. Learn to use any popular web 'stack' - LAMP is easiest on *Nix servers, RoR and Django are not rocket science. Nor is ASP for that matter.
3. Go out and find a web designer, or yourself bone up on design and CSS
4. Find easy contract work such needs basic web programming. Eg "install a picture gallery in my website" = $200/300/400.
5. Move on up with the contract work or launch your own site.
6. ???
7. Profit!
If you do this through college (and I didn't start until my senior year, a deep regret), you will level up to the forefront of web programming by the time you graduate.
Also, now that web is mature - there are multiple paths to success. I think getting the Server Side Language/ Javascript/ CSS/ HTML loop right in your head is the most important. You can follow that up with MVC frameworks, Adobe Air, Silverlight there are at least 4 or 5 solidly "employable" paths you can take
I dislike doing anything based solely on faith, but in this case I regard my "belief" as certain as my "belief" in mathematics describing the truth, i.e. I consider both pretty much absolute.
Here's a related commentary I found helpful, 2nd para lists (in a relatively archaic style, you have to parse it a bunch of times - 3 different religious answers to a similar existential question): http://www.hinduwebsite.com/divinelife/auro/auro_fateandfree...
(note: I don't advocate Hinduism, Sri Aurobindo or promote belief in God, am merely searching the answer to the question - "why am I not a fatalist?")
Earlier this was a garbled mess, full of functions like custID = addCustomer(form_info) updateAddress(custID, "Billing", some_args) and so on ...
On the flip side, OOP is trickier (b/c of encapsulation) to debug esp when object model gets complicated. In terms of programming the only way to do it better (and this is frankly v debatable, esp when you consider management of DB connections and API administration etc) is "LISP style", where you effectively concoct a DSL for your specific app.
Still, Py handily beats other free alternatives to Matlab