Hurray! They re-invented 2-d barcodes! UPS should sue.
Hurray! They re-invented 2-d barcodes! UPS should sue.
[quote user="R.Flowers"]
It does seem sometimes that PHP developers are the direct descendents of those old time BASIC programmers, or people who make entire applications out of shell scripts.
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PHP is definately the 'gateway' language into programming that basic was in the past. Its very productive and easy enough for newbies to pick up. I've seen some really atrocious PHP code being spit out by college kids who considered themselves programming 'gurus'. But, on the other hand, I've seen some really excellent object oriented, professional PHP applications created by experienced developers.
[quote user="merreborn"]
However, I just discovered that PHP5 doesn't properly free objects for re-use by the OS until script shutdown. Which means any sufficiently complex object-based CLI script will eat up all the memory on your server. The best part is the folks over at PHP.net think this is a total non-issue, 'cause they seem to think no one could possibly want to keep a PHP script running for more than a few seconds.
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This must be specific to PHP5. In my last place of work we had several PHP4 processes running 24/7 for months on end.
@Ron said:
When arriving: "I was going to wear jeans, but I decided at the last minute to get dressed up."
When asked about working with others: "I don't like foreign programmers because I can't understand them and I end up doing all the work myself."
When asked about teamwork: "I hate working with engineers."
When asked about learning experiences: "Everything I need to know is on the web."
When asked what types of tasks you wouldn't like doing: "I don't want to do bullshit work."
Cant blame him for any of these...
When asked to solve a programming type of problem: "I don't know what an algorithm is, but my friend has used them before."
You may leave now.
@tofu said:
que legions of people who will say that school is too easy and also worthless because tech moves too fast, so that's why they never finished and furthermore they will never hire anyone with a degree because they'd rather have someone with experience and everyone they've ever known with a degree was totally cluesless and certifications are the way to demostrate your skills
Ok - I've been programming professionally for almost 20 years now, and have seen zero correlation between completed degrees (whether in Comp Sci or not) and programming skill. The best coders I've encountered are those who had a few years of college.
@JohnAdams said:
No, the thing that's wrong with Delphi is Borland. Now I'm developing Swing apps in Java, I really miss the productivity of Delphi. But I don't miss the career dead-end it always threatens to be.
Career dead end? Its exactly because of Delphi's productivity that my company has been able to compete with larger competitors. Hardy a dead-end.