Reply to: "Five years experience of JQuery"

[Sysman]

It was funnier when it was ExpertsExchange

We call 'em Sexperts for short.

Programming Bulls is just asking for IT to be added

[amcdonald]

Experts-Exchange and Programming-Bulls.

It was funnier when it was ExpertsExchange

[MrMark]

Drawing a blank with Google is quite easy when you start learning a technology you haven't done before and don't know the crucial keywords

And then there's Google data rot...

Experts-Exchange and Programming-Bulls.

[EternalOptimist]

Yeah yeah yeah. google-sh1te,

I wanted to find out how to plank my front room, ended up falling to my death from a fckng balcony

[Sysman]

and quite often there's the "blind leading the blind" syndrome, where some chimp has posted a sub-optimal, outdated, or plain wrong solution to an obscure problem.

But then I guess a moderate level of skill and experience should allow one to discern that.

Oh yes. Then you get the Google noise from sites that have simply copied stuff from elsewhere. Same question, same dead end all over the place.

Example. Turn the startup sound off in Ubuntu. No I don't mean the sound after a successful login, but the one before that. There's a conversation out there where everyone gets hold of the wrong end of the stick and talks about actions after you have logged in.

I did find a solution, but gotta rush for my train now.

[OwlHoot]

Drawing a blank with Google is quite easy when you start learning a technology you haven't done before and don't know the crucial keywords

And then there's Google data rot...

and quite often there's the "blind leading the blind" syndrome, where some chimp has posted a sub-optimal, outdated, or plain wrong solution to an obscure problem.

But then I guess a moderate level of skill and experience should allow one to discern that.

[Sysman]

In this day and age you really need a very obscure problem for google not to give you the answer in 5 minutes.

Drawing a blank with Google is quite easy when you start learning a technology you haven't done before and don't know the crucial keywords

And then there's Google data rot...

[eek]

I would accept that I would learn faster but a lot of the SSIS knowledge gained is specific SSIS knowledge.
I've over 6 years ETL experience

You could look at it another way and ask how often do you think "I never knew that?"

When you reach the point you don't think that on a weekly basis you either

1) probably know as much as anyone really needs to or
2) you are working on really tulippy projects.

[Spacecadet]

But is that 3 years of experience unique to only SSIS or is it 3 years of SSIS and more general applied ETL knowledge.

In reality you have three years of ETL experience that you can apply to any system and enough SSIS to know how it really works. Given 6 months with another ETL system you could probably use it as well as you know SSIS.

I would accept that I would learn faster but a lot of the SSIS knowledge gained is specific SSIS knowledge.
I've over 6 years ETL experience

[russell]

Should they have put 4years 9 months, they rounded up why the big fuss?

[eek]

That would only hold true if they failed to learn and went through exactly the same hoops every time.

I've got about 3 years of SSIS. Every implementation has been an improvement on the previous and I'd say that I'm close to reaching the optimum design method

But is that 3 years of experience unique to only SSIS or is it 3 years of SSIS and more general applied ETL knowledge.

In reality you have three years of ETL experience that you can apply to any system and enough SSIS to know how it really works. Given 6 months with another ETL system you could probably use it as well as you know SSIS.

[Spacecadet]

People might say they have 5 years experience but my money is on it being the same 6 months experience ten times over.

That would only hold true if they failed to learn and went through exactly the same hoops every time.

I've got about 3 years of SSIS. Every implementation has been an improvement on the previous and I'd say that I'm close to reaching the optimum design method

[eek]

People might say they have 5 years experience but my money is on it being the same 6 months experience ten times over.

But that's true of 99% of people and most technologies.

In this day and age you really need a very obscure problem for google not to give you the answer in 5 minutes.

[EternalOptimist]

Dating beautiful women is like dating trees.

when I was learning to be a developer, my mentor said to me
'now young EO, attention to detail and technical precision , and you can have any woman you please'

bastid never did tell me how to please them though

[BlasterBates]

JQuery has actually been around since early 2006, so you could actually have 5 years experience in it. Initial plugin was available around January 2006.

HTH