The following conversation just took place in the tech IRC channel. I’m sharing it here because, well, it amused the hell out of me, so maybe it will amuse someone else out there. I should point out that we’re techies, so we can get away with the kind of things that are said here, and while it’s nowhere near being NSFW, just a word of caution: We like the swear words.
This all started because the topic for the channel was originally “<Matt> are you familiar with the Human Centipede?“, which stemmed from a conversation about… uhh… I forget what it was about. Probably something that had nothing to do with the Human Centipede, at any rate.
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I seriously can’t decide on a theme for this beast. Haven’t really found anything I’m thrilled with, so I’m just going with something simple until I get a chance to customize the crap out of it. So yeah, there’s that.
So for the next two days I’ll be sitting in JSP training. Now, on its own this is kind of cool, especially since it’s something I’ve been interested in for a while. Then again, I’m curious about just about every programming language, to the extent that I once ran out and bought a book on Lisp because I just had to have it. But, I digress. So, yeah, JSP.
My only concern here is that it might end up being like the last bit of training that they sent us to, which was for XSL. Holy crap was it horrible. Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s a valuable thing to know for a web developer, but to a certain degree I knew it already, and everything that the gentleman in the black shirt told us was something that I very well could have just looked up on Google. That, and he decided it would be worthwhile to teach the language using a specific IDE. This is never a good idea, since it’s highly unlikely that we’ll all use the same tool set moving forward for the rest of time. I’ll take it a step further and say that unless you’re learning something like Eclipse plugin development, or you’re developing in .NET, it’s never a good idea to teach using the IDE. Ever.
I took a look at the old Technomicon blog today, wondering what (if any) relevant posts I might be able to migrate over. The verdict: it’s mostly too random, too outdated, too “not really me anymore” for inclusion here. Don’t get me wrong, the entries are interesting (at least, I think so), but they don’t really represent who I am right now. They’re a snapshot of a few years of my life that I’ve since outgrown. We have the house that I wrote about then. I’ve made the career move that I was eager to do.
So what do we do, then? We start fresh. We take things in a new direction and build from here. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not “Netscaping” the whole thing and tossing out all the old to build up from scratch. Some of it will find its way here in some capacity, but a lot of it will simply find itself archived and quietly ignored.
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