On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Travis Hassloch wrote:
> I assume I'll spend a (short) time talking about our use of Linux.
> Maybe that will be all the time we have, but I doubt it. I'm sure I'll
> have some advice, too; I just graduated from UT Austin's CS program
> myself in 1995, and frankly I'd like to give you some of the info/advice
> I wish that I have been given. I hope for it to be shocking and
> nontraditional.
I hope the advice is applicable to non-CS majors who are interested
in careers in computers/information technology/programming.
> Here's a short list of DN topics I thought might be interesting,
> but if you want to hear something else my feelings won't be hurt:
Rearranged according to my interests. Of course, I'm not sure what
audience you're planning to attract.
> 6. program architecting/design tips
I've realized that value of good software engineering at work. We've got
one head coder/manager who is a great software engineer, and I've been
seeing some of the benefits of his careful design lately.
> 1. web robots
I've always been curious about how these work.
> 8. how do you measure success?
I alwyas enjoy hearing other people's thoughts on this question.
> 3. thoughts on how to design/organize/grow a large (100+ host) site
> 4. failure modes (war stories), thoughts on reliability
> 7. performance tradeoffs
Any or all of these are cool topics. They all appeal more to system
administrators than standalone users/programmers it seems, but I'm curious
about how large sites are managed.
> 5. web-site user behavior (including user feedback)
I don't know exactly what you mean by this one.
> 2. banners and the advertising business
I don't currently have much interest in this topic.
---Tom
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Tom Bryan
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University of Texas at Austin
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