By Eric Schultzter •
@Schultzter
Now that we’ve all gotten over our infatuation with SaaS (back from Wikipedia yet? Ok, let’s move on) it’s time to talk about PaaS (off to Wikipedia again aren’t you?!).
Platform as a Service is a great idea. Back in the good ‘ol daystm®© we used to share our time on the mainframe provided by the university/company/agency. Now computing resources are becoming commodities and anyone can buy time on a CPU somewhere. We’ve even got Folding@home and others that let us lend our own CPU power to others.
But how does this work out for the hobbyist? The guy like me who hacks away a few lines of Visual Basic or Java between mowing the lawn and changing diapers?
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By Johnny Canuck •
@JohnnyCanuck We need a caption for our new De-Motivational poster. As usual have a party in the comments.
A little bit of fun for you as your enjoying your Friday Morning coffee and danish.
By Eric Schultzter •
@SchultzterIn my on-going quest to validate Google’s Do no evil slogan I have more evidence that Google is becoming evil (or Microsoft is becoming good, but considering IE8 I doubt it) [...]
By Steven McGurn •
@mtl_steveRecently a tweet by Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) caught my eye. It was titled 8 Levels of Programmers, and describes the different kind of developers out there. I got to thinking, and I think he missed one: Painted In a Corner Developer. Its been my experience that more coders are in that category that would like to admit. When I started my career, the project I worked on was really cool, but used a career killing technology that was not even supported by the vendor anymore. So I did my mandatory year, switched teams and went on to work on some awesome projects using platforms not tied to any specific products.
When I moved on to my third job, it was for a Microsoft ISV (Independent Software Vendor). We used c# as a language, but the drawback was that we were building technology that was meant to integrate inside of an existing Microsoft product. We had to learn an entirely non-portable language (two in fact) in order to properly integrate our code into Microsoft’s Dynamics NAV and GP (Navision and Great Plains for old school ERP folks). Some would say that these skills are transferable, in reality the only transferable skills are the Analysis and Design, Architectural approach and ability to problem solve.
Continue reading Ninth Level of Programmers
mtl_steve : @drtiki I'm on ping. Waiting to be impressed.
claurin : @JohnnyCanuck The Hymus will be added to the tour schedule.
JohnnyCanuck : @claurin lol Sure but we can't leave the Hymus off of the community centre tour. Maybe we can even get @scorbett22 to sit on a bouclier
schultzter : I just had to "break up a fight" between my daughter's two feet - she insists it was not her fault but they're keeping her awake!
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