Yea s'ok. I'm all for a bit of self-publishing, at least if it's good content.

Not a FUD article about Windows 10 or some other bullshit? Fuck it have an upvoat.

There's always a cost benefit to be done. I've had someone approach me to make an e-learning project. Yes sure could have built something from scratch but it's much faster taking an open source option like Moodle and build off that. Second had a project to build out an HL7 interface. Again starting from scratch would be much harder than starting with Mirth.

Anyway I are both sides and I love building stuff, but I'd much rather solve the problem that needs solving that spend three months working on a framework.

Great article..little self promotion, but good content.

Whole heartedly agree, I strive to be that dev everyday. I think the toughest for me us beating back the prejudices of X over Y.

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Hence, stack overflow.

Needs more 'magic'

Ahaha yes I think we've all been there before. I remember opening up a very large Oracle package that had as it's opening lines, Here be dragons. Directly after that was a several hundred line mess of conditionals with horrible fall through conditions littered everywhere.

Yea, you might just get a FLASH of insight, or maybe open a WINDOW into the code base. Once you're done fixing the issues and submitting your pull request you can sit down with a nice cup of JAVA.

That's awesome. MSSQL is mostly similar to mysql except for some syntax differences. Keep at it and if you need anything and me a direct message.

As far as I know no, they are not running redis or Memcached. They are AFAIK, running cloudflare to handle some CDN. I believe we melted the SQL server with all the load.

I would approve of the purchase. However I would also caution that some of this information and indeed a lot of it could also be found online for free. However there is a lot of merit in a 'packaged' and cohesive presentation. So I really applaud you wanting to learn more. A bunch of those courses are in 'newer/hotter' tech than what we were talking about before. Things like Node.js(not even version 1.0 yet)/MongoDB are really newer/cutting edge tech. Python is awesome, but I personally have never used it. Learning HTML/CSS will always benefit you as in the end that is what browsers are consuming. Same with Heroku and Rails, cutting edge stuff there. The only thing I think might be missing, depending on the depth of the complete web course is more database. If you are going at things solo or on a small team you'll really need to learn some SQL and understand what it is your doing. If you are looking to be on a large team where they have separation between front-end (HTML/CSS/Javascript/jscript/node) and back-end, usually DB, you might be alright just understanding the basics.

I've seen too many people rely on their 'magic' framework and their site has horrible performance because all of their queries are horrid.

Hope that helps.

In short yes. It depends on what you want the site to do. Firstly if you want to 'store' data yes you'll want some form of database. There are pros and cons to all of them, but I would start out with mySQL. I say that mostly because it's free and it's a pretty standard relational database. After that you'll want to make some middle/front end code. Now, here's where it gets interesting. You could build a pretty traditional PHP style site. This mixes HTML/CSS/Javascript right in with the code itself and can be a good place to start learning web development. However, the 'hotness' right now is all javascript. It's a totally different ballgame and I'm slowing picking up more javascript frameworks and skills all the time.

So in very very long terms. Yes. You want a database that will hold your content or voats or whatever, you want your middle-ware holding your application logic, and finally you want your front-end output (the stuff the web browser can see/render) which is javascript, HTML, and CSS. Building/doing web development takes a lot of skills; database, coding, and design.

I agree. As far as 'skills' go this MIGHT get you in to talk to a person. More than likely you'll be filed away because ain't nobody got time fo dat.

Alright, maybe this would help.. As far as databases go places are using one of two flavors: mySQL (free/open source), Microsoft SQL(MSSQL) non-free licensed, and finally the weirder ones (MongoDB/MariaDB/Oracle).

Alright moving on we usually have some sort of middle tier. This can be something like node.js (written in javascript), PHP, or C#(ASPX). Sometimes we don't have this layer or this layer is combined with the front-end layer (PHP can do this).

Finally we have the front-end layer. Here is where we're usually writing things in javascript (there are frameworks like jQuery/meteor/angular/handlebars) HTML and CSS.

So for Reddit they use for their backend Postgres and middle/front-end appears to be Python. For Voat they use MSSQL as their backend and their middle/front-end is C#. I hope that helps.

True, but then again the recruiters are in force only because they are being employed/used enough to warrant it.

I don't think that's true everywhere. However I know, at least judging by my inbox, that the tech market is actively looking for people with certain skills. C#/javascript/anything "web"(angular/mongodb/meteor) is really taking off right now. Secondarily I think we're seeing a ton of new cool things people can code from phones to wearables, tech is everywhere.

Of course grain of salt being it is Albuquerque.

The hook/tag should have been "Oh sorry, I should have said RGB(0, 153, 255)"

So what you're basically saying is Aliens

I would concur on most points. You want to 'mix' the more experienced people with the noobs and honestly we're all not experts in everything. I might be great at mySQL/MSSQL and absolute crap at Oracle (totally true). Anyway, I think that we could (might?) have a programmer lite space where people can feel that they can get their feet wet with noob questions or even better a noob question day. Beginner Tuesdays where any question, no matter how lowly, can feel more free to be asked. I think the more likely 'sinking' of it is when threads devolve into X is better than Y.

How does a for while each loop work? <snark>