Reply to: Its in my head!!!

[Andy2]

I have never met a woman programmer
its an urban myth

[Pogle]

Female programmers, when found, tend to be better than average, IMHO.
I think this is because if they've stuck with it long enough to work in it, given all the drongo males they encounter in the industry, they must really love it.

We have to be bloody good, cos if we aint there's a queue of blokes waiting to tell us so.

[Churchill]

Not met her, but...

"Ada Lovelace was born as the daughter of the poetic Lord Byron. Her mother got her homeschooled in math and science. When she was 27, she translated an article about Babbages Analytical Engine and added a description to compute Bernoulli numbers with it. The Right Honourable Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace wrote the first program in history."

Have met some good ones though.

Don't forget Admiral Grace Hopper!

[sasguru]

Not met her, but...

"Ada Lovelace was born as the daughter of the poetic Lord Byron. Her mother got her homeschooled in math and science. When she was 27, she translated an article about Babbages Analytical Engine and added a description to compute Bernoulli numbers with it. The Right Honourable Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace wrote the first program in history."

Have met some good ones though.

Female programmers, when found, tend to be better than average, IMHO.
I think this is because if they've stuck with it long enough to work in it, given all the drongo males they encounter in the industry, they must really love it.

[Scary]

anyone ever met women programmers who knew what they were doing ?

Not met her, but...

"Ada Lovelace was born as the daughter of the poetic Lord Byron. Her mother got her homeschooled in math and science. When she was 27, she translated an article about Babbages Analytical Engine and added a description to compute Bernoulli numbers with it. The Right Honourable Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace wrote the first program in history."

Have met some good ones though.

[alreadypacked]

Beyond sticking the kettle on you mean?

You know you want it



CM will be along later

[DimPrawn]

anyone ever met women programmers who knew what they were doing ?

Beyond sticking the kettle on you mean?

[Scary]

You're never going to sell something called "SOAP" to programmers

[bobhope]

I think the point was that CORBA sucked so hard in the first place that even something that implemented it badly couldn't be any worse than CORBA was to start with.

I remember printing off the original document defining CORBA, more than ten years ago. As I read it I kept thinking "WTF?" but assuming that the people who wrote it were smarter than me, so it must be fail on my end that made it seem like a useless mess.

Now I know better: CORBA was a useless mess then, and it's a useless mess now.

Those who don't understand REST are doomed to re-implement it badly. All CORBA ever was, was a particularly well-defined demonstration of that fact.

EDIT: another good example of a heavily-over-specced technology that totally missed the point was SOAP (and all the associated nonsense) on which so much time and money was wasted. I assume there are people supporting this garbage even now, who maybe don't even realise that there was no need for any of it.

I remember being forced to use Orbix at work back in 96/97. I gave up when hello world took an hour to compile.

[Pogle]

Thanks Pogle.

I'm just too old school. I just do things. Now you find that academics have invented terms to describe everything. A serious problem when it comes to interviews!

Which suite of BI tools do you specialise in?

Business Objects, have also done SSIS and a bit of Cognos, but exclusivly BOBJ these days.

[OrangeHopper]

Thanks Pogle.

I'm just too old school. I just do things. Now you find that academics have invented terms to describe everything. A serious problem when it comes to interviews!

Which suite of BI tools do you specialise in?

[Pogle]

I liked Soap. It was a good programme. It had Billy Crystal in it.

I used to like it too, but saw some repeats recently and felt it was best left as a memory

[Pogle]

Hey Pogle, please educate.

What is "reverse pivoting"?

Pivot is converting columns to rows
Reverse pivoting is converting rows to columns



Not sure if link will work -

https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/displa...everse%20Pivot

[OrangeHopper]

Hey Pogle, please educate.

What is "reverse pivoting"?

[NickFitz]

ASN.1 and CORBA: those that don't know them are doomed to re-implement them, badly.

Implement CORBA badly!?

Yes, even Sun managed that with the first couple of goes at RMI. Then they discovered the one true protocol: IIOP.

I think the point was that CORBA sucked so hard in the first place that even something that implemented it badly couldn't be any worse than CORBA was to start with.

I remember printing off the original document defining CORBA, more than ten years ago. As I read it I kept thinking "WTF?" but assuming that the people who wrote it were smarter than me, so it must be fail on my end that made it seem like a useless mess.

Now I know better: CORBA was a useless mess then, and it's a useless mess now.

Those who don't understand REST are doomed to re-implement it badly. All CORBA ever was, was a particularly well-defined demonstration of that fact.

EDIT: another good example of a heavily-over-specced technology that totally missed the point was SOAP (and all the associated nonsense) on which so much time and money was wasted. I assume there are people supporting this garbage even now, who maybe don't even realise that there was no need for any of it.