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
By Johnny Canuck •
@JohnnyCanuck
OK so it’s just a prototype… But in all honesty my daughter’s sense of imagination and ability to create some amazing stuff is mind boggling. The remote to Squawkers MacGraw doubles as a multi-button mouse and is apparently Bluetooth as well as solar powered…
And all this got me thinking about GREEN computing [...]
By Johnny Canuck •
@JohnnyCanuckIt’s officially time to say: “The HELL with BELL!” And the CRTC can now become just one more corrupt government agency that is completely out of touch with the industry it is set to oversee and protect.
Bell Canada Inc. is not breaking any laws by slowing Internet speeds and will be allowed to continue throttling its customers, the CRTC has ruled. — The CBC
Not only is the CRTC going to turn a blind eye to Bell’s anti-competitive behaviour of restricting and diminishing access to content from third party providers in order to better promote it’s own services. But the CRTC are completely ignoring the fact that Bell illegally broke contracts by throttling and metering the CAIP ISP’s who had signed up to resell straight pipes or as some would say clean tubes!
Continue reading CRTC Rules Bell Can Still SUCK!
By Johnny Canuck •
@JohnnyCanuckArs Technica has a brilliant article about how absurd the Net Neutrality issue has become in Canada. I am now officially ashamed to be a content producing Web Professional in a country where official government regulators take it up the backside for big companies and make sure the consumer gets the shaft.
Launching a [...]
By Johnny Canuck •
@JohnnyCanuck
Bell and other Canadian ISP seem to have hit some type of nerve in The Great White North that is usually reserved to bad Hockey fights, bashing Celine Dion and corporate America messing with sacred Tim Horton’s pastries.
So I was watching last night’s big game between the Habs and the Sens and [...]
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