[ale] Programming and preferred languages?

[Jim Kinney]

I've been the systems guy getting to give that speech. The part missing was
"What do you mean by 'of course it needs to run as root so it can touch the
drive hardware and the network stack at the same time'?"

On Feb 2, 2017 2:46 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> You also need to learn to work within the confines of the system presented
> (and NOT the latest bleeding edge desktop distro)  in a large
> organization,  unless you want your Systems team to declare you an enemy :)
>
> There's nothing worse than:  "Yeah, this thing I wrote won't work on your
> old obsolete server" (Which is an up-to-date enterprise Linux distro).  Did
> it work on the dev server?  "No, everything there was out of date to, so I
> developed it on the latest version of Ubuntu".
> Yeah...put your application in the toilet...now flush....  Come back when
> you have something that will work on the dev server.  Bye.
> Allen B.
>
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> Office of Information Technology
> The University of Alabama
> Office 205-348-2251
> allen at ua.edu
>
> On 2/2/17, 11:58 AM, "ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of Jim Kinney" <
> ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 12:46 -0500, Scott M. Jones wrote:
>
>     On 2/2/17 12:37 PM, leam hall wrote:
>
>     I've coded in a few languages and have a couple I really enjoy.
> However,
>     they don't tend to fall in the "lots of jobs" or "direct tie to Linux"
>     category. The idea I've had so far is to pick a language I really enjoy
>     and learn things like OOP, TDD, refactoring, etc.
>
>     Not sure this is a good path though. I'm not young and am still trying
>     to move from Linux admin to coder type of guy.
>
>     Thoughts?
>
>
>
>     These days companies and interviewers often want to see your
>     "portfolio", specifically on GitHub.  So, start a project or two and
>     "Git" some of your code out on GitHub, if you want to be a coder.
>
>     Also keep in mind that larger organizations are typically very
>     specialized, i.e. coders are not allowed to do Linux admin and may
> never
>     have root access anywhere.  They just code.  You're more likely to wear
>     many hats and use the full range of your experience in a smaller or
>     newer organization.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>     Very good point. Look for position like dev-ops.
>
>     -Scott
>
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>     gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
>     own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
>     - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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