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Thanks. I love .Net development and used to study or write my own stuff most nights of the week, up until a few years ago when I started wearing a lot of different hats. Web development got me interested in IT nearly 20 years ago, but what I did not say is that I worked 6 to 7 days a week on a reporting project since July with a deadline of January. It was a failed project that was dropped on me by the execs and I was told to be the PM and lead. It was not a lot of fun, to say the least; plus I get to do my System and DBA tasks as well. I'm currently burned out, but starting to freshen a bit and read articles again. We'll see; hopefully the passion will come back.
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You don't also play PowerShell guru for the organization, security analyst, SysAdmin, and modernization advocate?
Lucky government employee :p
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I decide the technologies on the Microsoft side and do some system administration, but not hardware. No Powershell, I can get along without it, but do still use RoboCopy a lot.
I am not lucky being a government employee. I am slightly above average, but no where near a guru. The government employees that are lucky are the ones that don't want more at work or in life. I want more and I have ambition; so I rant from time to time because government jobs can be very depressing.
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No, but you're lucky FOR a government employee, in that you have less hats to wear than I do :p
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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There aren't enough hats going round to cover the number I try [/forced] to wear, that's the downside of being boss on the facility. There aren't even hats that cover some of the stuff I have to get involved with.
Makes for a very interesting job at times.
The best hat however is the "I am on time off for 3 weeks hat" that I get to wear for 6 months of the year.
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Two: The Freelancer and the Job Seeker.
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The most appropriate adornment for my mazard would be a crash helmet.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Try being a freelancer. Before you even think about development, you're also doing marketing, sales, accounting, legal, payroll, office management, cleaning, catering, networks, security, op.systems, hardware + software procurement and a load more jobs beside.
Sounds like you're doing one job - development. Sure, there are different toolsets involved but the mindset is similar. Seems you have great variety at work with never a dull moment
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... as many hats as I am possessing rulers ...
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Can anyone recommend a decent JavaScript book for the total beginner?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I don't have any book recommendations but the MDN JavaScript[^] page has excellent tutorials. It's where I learned initially. Just go down that list on the left side starting with "Javascript Guide."
modified 2-Mar-17 18:47pm.
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Awesome. Thanks!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Holy sh*t, I think I've been a Microsoft code monkey for way too long. I actually read that link as "MSDN JavaScript", and then freaked out when the link took me to a mozilla page.
On the other hand, thanks very much for posting it. I will go through the page as well.
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Haha, I've done that as well. I started out on C/C++, went to Perl, then to C# and all its related technologies. I actually started learning web development last since now everything seems to be web-integrated. MSDN and MDN are still probably my two most-viewed domains
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Been outside of the MS ecosystem for a while now, but I read the link as MSDN as well. On the second look I realized it's Mozilla docs
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Nice link - thanks, Jon!
/ravi
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I started studying it back in the 90s, so anything I can say is a bit dated. However, "back in the day" I read the first edition of the JavaScript Bible, and it was pretty darn good. It's up to the seventh edition now, but I'd suspect it's still a quality book.
JavaScript Bible[^]
Jeremy Falcon
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Thanks for that!
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Douglass Crockford's JavaScript - The Good Parts is oft considered seminal, but the language has changed a hell of a lot since then, but it is probably a good starter anyway. Everything in ES6 is just making things in ES5 easier, and so back down the ES lineage.
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This[^] is a useful reference, if you're using javascript.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Priceless. My next product development cycle is doing our UI in JavaScript, because "it's more modern, and we can use modern tools" to create it.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I struggled to come to grips with JS for ages until I came across
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