That is it : I am becoming a programmer.

[NotAllThere]

Save yourself some pain and don't do it. You either are a programmer or you ain't - it's to do with how your brain works (for blokes anyway )...

There appear to be 10 major types of programmers. Those who think this old joke is really funny (about 90% - the geek/hackers), and those who just shake their head ( intuitive type people ). It's the latter type that the business people like to deal with, and who can be trusted to produce good quality code.

[bobhope]

There appear to be 10 major types of programmers. Those who think this old joke is really funny (about 90% - the geek/hackers), and those who just shake their head ( intuitive type people ). It's the latter type that the business people like to deal with, and who can be trusted to produce good quality code.

Surely that should be 11 - those that don't understand the joke.

Anyway, any good programmer knows that it's better to say there are <n> types of anything.

[juststarting]

I don't suppose you look anything like this one?

haha , No that is my older sister , I am more frisky than that

[Moscow Mule]

There appear to be 10 major types of programmers. Those who think this old joke is really funny (about 90% - the geek/hackers), and those who just shake their head ( intuitive type people ). It's the latter type that the business people like to deal with, and who can be trusted to produce good quality code.

* shakes head *

[juststarting]

oh boy ... reading everything above ... all sounds SOOO boring ..

On an interview if I am asked about the table key , I would say:

"What should be the primary key ? FFS be it whatever the first thing seems reasonable to be , or google it FFS. "

Do you think I will pass it ?



My brain is completly math incapable... said in other words ....illogical. I kid you not me only knows plus and minus mathematic operations , and find it difficult to do in my head.

But still , me thinks with google in my back pocket , there should be no programming tasks beyond my ability !

So I guess I dont want to become what I call hard-core programmer - you know the kind of guys that argue about the keys and stuff . I want to become the guy that is able to talk to and understand a programmer.

Hard-core programmers are being outsourced right now - straight to where the infrastructure guys have gone.

Coming from sharepoint infrastructure I plan to " mildly specialize" in Sharepoint development , .net , asp.net , VS 2010 and VS 2008 , some UML , XML and CSS. I have already used these to a degree.

It is pretty common strategy but hey .... Microsoft is still the bot feeding corporate techies.

[Scary]

There appear to be 10 major types of programmers. Those who think this old joke is really funny (about 90% - the geek/hackers), and those who just shake their head ( intuitive type people ). It's the latter type that the business people like to deal with, and who can be trusted to produce good quality code.

You needn't find it funny, but if you don't get it you shouldn't be in software development in any capacity.

[NotAllThere]

So, do ternary computers have a future?

Yes, no or maybe.

[NotAllThere]

oh boy ... reading everything above ... all sounds SOOO boring ...

You're describing a database developer - not a programmer.

For his Matura, my son is analysing the Russian card game "Durak". To help him with this, I'm writing a simulator for the game - all he has to do is create different implementations of the strategy interface, and write the stuff to collect results. What I'm doing has nothing to do with databases.

For my client, I'm developing a program that updates the user profile with their email address, via an Active Directory web service. The update of the profile is via a Data Access Object, so, again, I don't interact with the database.

[RichardCranium]

So, do ternary computers have a future?

Once Fortran's troolian operators catch on, yes.

[TheFaQQer]

anyways, its a right mess

Save time - just truncate the table and blame it on the previous developer.

Job done.

(Maybe this is why I can't find any work at the moment??)