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Albert Einstein. wrote: asp.net developer
Web designers may be a different bunch alltogether...
Albert Einstein. wrote: If you saw your plumber looking at a book when he fixed your sink would you be very confident in his ability?
On the contrary I would really hate to see a airplane mechanic *not* looking into the plane vendors repair instructions before doing anything more complex than doing a visual funktion check.
Or a pilot skipping all the checklists because he did it so often before.
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."
-- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.
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Al,
The *real* Albert Einstein didn't keep a bunch of details in his head. He didn't even memorize his own address. He kept it written down... in a <gasp!> book.
Then, maybe he didn't know what HE was doing and had us all fooled.
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Albert Einstein. wrote: If you see a developer with a bunch of books (that they actually use) it means they don't really know what they are doing.
But you yourself look things up:
One of Einstein's colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. "You don't remember your own number?" the man asked, startled.
"No," Einstein answered. "Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?"
I use books for three things:
1. To learn something new
2. To discover a new perspective on something I already know
3. To look up something that I know roughly how to do, but cannot remember the details
Graham
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What a weird thought.
A programmer is not supposed to know everything about everything. The area is way to large... However he's supposed to know where to find the information he need when he need it, either in a book or on internet...
And personnally I much prefer read an article in a book than on a web page (and if it's on a web page, I print it, read it, and archive it in a folder... which might look like a big giant book to you... arrrrrgghhhhh )
-- modified at 14:18 Thursday 9th February, 2006
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Hello,
A good developer is not someone who knows every quirck, inside info, etc. about his or her work area. Instead, a good developer is someone who knows what is living in the world these days and knows where to find more detailed information if something tends to be usefull. The second requirement for a good developer is to know how to use the technologies that are usefull for the given problem area.
Your description fits the small group of the so-called 'nerds' who lived in a time that I would like to call history...
Behind every great black man...
... is the police. - Conspiracy brother
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Albert Einstein. wrote: it means they don't really know what they are doing
seems that you don't really know what you're saying...
TOXCCT >>> GEII power [toxcct][VisualCalc 2.20][VCalc 3.0 soon...]
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For me it largely depends on who paid for the books. Books which I have bought for myself, I will read first at home, and then usually label up and leave at work on my desk. Books which are paid for by work I usually read at home, and then eventually take them back into the office, by which time everyone thinks they were bought by me.
I have a complete set of Visual C++ Manuals (version 1.0 I think) that I keep in my loft. It's sometimes nice to flick through the pages rather than try to read stuff on-line, even though they are old, but they take up a lot of room, and weigh too much to carry around.
Mmm, why the heck am I keeping them? Does anyone want them?
"The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice" - Proverbs 12:15 (NIV)
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That's jsut what I do!
If the company has bought me the book, I leave it in the office. My own books stay at home.
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Please inform me about my English mistakes, as I'm still trying to learn your language!
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I read the books usually at home (for the first time). Thats the only place I can effort time for reading a book.
After reading a book, there are four places:
1. A bookshelf directly above my monitor, so I just lean forward and pick it (for the real good books)
2. A bookshelf in my office at the door I have to get up and take a walk of 4m (for the books that are good but not sooo good and not so frequently in use)
3. There is my box for the stuff to sell in ebay (for the books that I would never buy again)
4. There is the mystic place somewhere in the offices (maybe on bookshelves of my my colleagues) where the books are that I mostly need to look something important up, and in most cases I am unable to find this place (usually the very best books are there)
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In the table of contents it said:
Future innovations:
- A lot of stuff i never heard about
- HTML 3.0
- More stuff
"..Commit yourself to quality from day one..it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.."
-- Mark McCormick || Fold With Us! || Pensieve || VG.Net ||
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That is awesome, a vintage copy. Could be worth something one day
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Paul Watson wrote: Could be worth something one day
Hey, want to buy a copy of the IBM-1130 FORTRAN manual...?
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Is it a first edition, signed copy or the edition lining the bottom of pet stores the world over?
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Shog9 wrote: Hey, want to buy a copy of the IBM-1130 FORTRAN manual...?
Hmm. Good Stuff.
What about "Peter Norton. Inside the IBM PC"
The one with the in-depth description of the IBM-PC cassette-player interface...
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."
-- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.
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I still have an "Introduction To Computers" book I used in college that talks about card readers. I'm sure glad that we don't have to deal with those any longer!!!
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Is it just me or do tech books suffer from the most awful titles? They are incredibly long.
Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference
Programming C# : Building .NET Applications with C#
Data Structures and Problem Solving Using Java
Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers
I don't see the sense of having "Microsoft ASP.NET" when "ASP.NET" will suffice. Or "Building .NET Applications with C#" when "Building applications with C#" will suffice. It isn't going to be "Building Java Applications with C#" now is it?
I only bring this up as I am listing all the books in the office and my web-app has to truncuate nearly every single book title. And that is before you get into things like 2nd, 3rd, 4th and nth editions.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Is that
toxcct wrote: remove "Microsoft"
the company, as well as the word?
... Wishfull thinking when VS2005 crashes for the tenth time this morning.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
-- modified at 7:27 Tuesday 7th February, 2006
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. wrote: Wishfull thinking when VS2005 crashes for the tenth time this morning.
Start using #develop
Regards,
Brian Dela
Blog^
Co-author of The Outlook Answer Book... Go on, order^ it today!
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I already am.
Unfortunately VS has to be used for work. Oh well
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
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I'd love to see you do unit testing of those multi-threaded controller/agent classes in #develop :P
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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I know I know... We all hate VS 2005 but nobody will turn it off...
*Paul.. back away from my VS 2005.. Paul.. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!*
Regards,
Brian Dela
Blog^
Co-author of The Outlook Answer Book... Go on, order^ it today!
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Muwahahahahaha! Use Ruby on Rails for everything! RadRails IDE for everything! Muwahahahaha...
(Just to fill everybody in, Brian and I work together. He is sitting behind me, shouting at VS2005. I am sitting behind him, shouting at RadRails. It's all good.)
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland
Feed Henry!
K(arl) wrote:
oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Paul Watson wrote: Brian and I work together. He is sitting behind me
As far as I know, I'm the only Code Project member where I work , and that's out of 15-20 programmers in the building.
I'm so used to all of you being sig's in a forum...
Software Zen: delete this;
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