On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Steve Ochani <ocha...@ncc.edu> wrote:
> Really? Your cv/resume indicates otherwise. > > Sure your phd is in neuroscience but your current employment is listed as > "Scientific Programmer" and so was your last employment. > > Considering that you are "Proficient" in things such as "C/C++/C#, PHP ... > Linux OS" > you should have considered that letting people know some details about your > configuration/system would have helped. > That's just marketing. If you look more carefully, I've never worked outside of academia. I've even tried, and I can't get a job as a real programmer. My father and brother are both real programmers, and I understand the difference between what they know and what I know. But when trying to get a job in science doing programming, the academics that tend to hire you like to see "proficiency", where my proficiency in any of those languages is probably less than yours. > Anyways, as stated by other people, get rid of the ubuntu packaged Tomcat > and install the > official one, also use a real Java version from SUN. Working on it. I didn't realize that Ubuntu packages were the potentially more difficult route. I'd made the false assumption that they might simplify things for me. > Also, tomcat does work "out of the box". Incorrect administration of any > system will stop it > from working out of the box. Honestly, what I'm most frustrated about isn't Tomcat, per say, but the stuff written by my colleagues that should work with Tomcat. I'm a bit baffled how the über-cross-platform Java (and its disciples Ant and Tomcat) could be used to create code that is extraordinarily sensitive to the version and platforms on which it is compiled and run. I suppose that's just because the code was poorly written, and you could probably write platform- and version-dependent code in any language, but it would have been nice if I could have installed whatever the latest packages were on my system, and compiled and run successfully the first time. Instead I'm spending upwards of a week learning all the internals. I guess that's useful in the long run, but I could just use some good and patient guidance. Sorry to have stepped on anybody's toes, and thank you all for your help. :) Michael
