[ale] Programming and preferred languages?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

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  "No, everything there was out of date to, so I developed it on the latest version of Ubuntu".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.


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Allen Beddingfield
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The University of Alabama
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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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