At Last...
Ryan on May 27, 2004 11:04am
So I\'ve been working on a small project for a client now, and today that one has finally come to an end. I was only there a month, (give or take a few days), but at times it seemed like it would never end. It wasn\'t that is was a bad project, but it was rather bland, and I feel like it was kinda of, well...clumsy. So its good to be done, (minus some inevitable support I a sure).
In other news, my buddy Bryan is slowly finding out what it was like for me to work in the web group at my former place of employment.
Never had I met a group of more close-minded people when it comes to technology. Simply mention the word \"linux\" there and be prepared for a battle. They fail to see the benefits because they think it would cost more to train people and migrate some things than it would save them. Which, I have to agree, is true for maybe the first 3-5 years. After that however, assuming they provide their own support, (which they do), they\'d be saving money hand over fist compared to M$ solutions. Not to mention they wouldn\'t have to schedule nightly reboot, or run one application per server. Hell, they could even run Solaris 10, (not free, but far superiros to anything M$ has ever barfed up), coming in September of this year and use zones for their development and demo environments and lost *two-thirds* of the M$ based servers. Considering they have an absolutely *HUGE* web server farm of wintendo machines, that\'s a lot of cash!
Furthermore, aside from all of this, they argue that VB is better than any other technology for application development because they can sit an accountant down and have them write an app with very little training. Do they *NOT* see the folly in that methodology. Taking people who aren\'t programmers, and having them write their *business critical* apps makes no sense. Not to me anyway, that\'s like telling me to go build a car that everyone will drive. It isn\'t gonna run, and if it does, it won\'t be a well-tuned machine requring little or no maintenance. You don\'t have to be the head cashier at the Wal-Mart to see that its probably not the smartest thing to do.
Anyway, I\'m all off on a tangent now and my lunch hour is over, so back to work!
In other news, my buddy Bryan is slowly finding out what it was like for me to work in the web group at my former place of employment.
Never had I met a group of more close-minded people when it comes to technology. Simply mention the word \"linux\" there and be prepared for a battle. They fail to see the benefits because they think it would cost more to train people and migrate some things than it would save them. Which, I have to agree, is true for maybe the first 3-5 years. After that however, assuming they provide their own support, (which they do), they\'d be saving money hand over fist compared to M$ solutions. Not to mention they wouldn\'t have to schedule nightly reboot, or run one application per server. Hell, they could even run Solaris 10, (not free, but far superiros to anything M$ has ever barfed up), coming in September of this year and use zones for their development and demo environments and lost *two-thirds* of the M$ based servers. Considering they have an absolutely *HUGE* web server farm of wintendo machines, that\'s a lot of cash!
Furthermore, aside from all of this, they argue that VB is better than any other technology for application development because they can sit an accountant down and have them write an app with very little training. Do they *NOT* see the folly in that methodology. Taking people who aren\'t programmers, and having them write their *business critical* apps makes no sense. Not to me anyway, that\'s like telling me to go build a car that everyone will drive. It isn\'t gonna run, and if it does, it won\'t be a well-tuned machine requring little or no maintenance. You don\'t have to be the head cashier at the Wal-Mart to see that its probably not the smartest thing to do.
Anyway, I\'m all off on a tangent now and my lunch hour is over, so back to work!
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