. It's
amazing how useful this turns out to be at answering really hard
questions.
Ian
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Subject: [U2] What Next?
For the
Rex said.
>> Learn to program in C. If you want to stay in the construction side of
>> development, the aptitude to understand C is what separates the men
from
>> the boys. Notice that it's an "aptitude"; some people just don't have
>> the brain cells that understand memory allocation, let a
Al,
"Software development is inherently an exercise in climbing steep
learning curves - an exercise in problem solving - and the learning
curves don't disappear" -- Steve McConnell
I find that Steve's quote equally applies to professional development;
growing as an application developer is a
Of Al DeWitt
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:16 AM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: [U2] What Next?
For the last 14 years or so I have been doing programming support and
light DBA work; first in Universe (Prime Information) and now in Unidata
(Pick). I'm basically a one-trick pony
itt
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:16 AM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: [U2] What Next?
For the last 14 years or so I have been doing programming support and
light DBA work; first in Universe (Prime Information) and now in Unidata
(Pick). I'm basically a one-trick pony (UniBas
: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: [U2] What Next?
For the last 14 years or so I have been doing programming support and
light DBA work; first in Universe (Prime Information) and now in Unidata
(Pick). I'm basically a one-trick pony (UniBasic and System Builder)
because my goal has always been
@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: [U2] What Next?
For the last 14 years or so I have been doing programming support and
light DBA work; first in Universe (Prime Information) and now in Unidata
(Pick). I'm basically a one-trick pony (UniBasic and System Builder)
because my goal has always been to move into a bus
several suggestions:
1. datastage
2. .net (in particular asp.net/c#)
3. jBASE (in my opinion despite the fact its not as well used as U2, its
got a good future (in my opinion))
4. maybe some system admin stuff (in particular I love aix)
dougc
Al DeWitt wrote:
For the last 14 years or so I h
For the last 14 years or so I have been doing programming support and
light DBA work; first in Universe (Prime Information) and now in Unidata
(Pick). I'm basically a one-trick pony (UniBasic and System Builder)
because my goal has always been to move into a business analyst role,
but that has nev
