[depricated]

Move started out sucking but has gone exponentially smoother today.

Yesterday was a huge mess with getting our internet connectivity up and running - ISP instructed us to use a wrong cable apparently (I didn't handle it, network admin did, so that's just his description). Whatever. I was here til 9 physically setting up PCs until I was totally exhausted and then this morning the manager staff came in and hooked the rest up while I was still asleep so that's cool.

Network is up and running. Company bought lunch, dinner, breakfast, and lunch again, and I'm kinda expecting lunch tomorrow when we go and move every user PC over to the domain (fucking FINALLY).

Oh and I now have my own office. I'm sitting in it right now giggling like a madman.

I can't believe how well the move has gone. Our XP machine that's running the $30k software is about to shit itself so I'm gonna try and replace the last "irreplaceable" thing that's running on it, so we can switch over before the hard drive seizes up. It does not sound good...

[astonecipher]

Should be working on the company project this weekend, haven't started yet.

@dep, congrats on the office! I remember when I had one. I miss it immensely!

[Nitewalkr]

I have been looking for jobs since I've graduated. Currently working on another TODO app. Since I have been studying on my own, I clearly don't what they'd expect of me when I join any company, but I have my hopes up that it goes well as well.

Right now, I have been working with Angular and React, which will give me a fair idea of how Typescript and Ecma6 is consumed. I have been working with C# ASP.NET MVC as well, but everything seemed to have moved on to ASP.NET CORE which is a completely different set up. I have also been studying PHP and MySQL which they should've taught us in school.

So far, not much going on, except for making samples and applying.

[modi123_1]

Popped into a debate tournament.. realized I was old, but the arguments and failings are the same, and then went home to update the weather stripping on my ride. Figure why waste a 65 degree day in February. On the down side one of my doors doesn't close as smooth as it used to so I am hoping that is just new foam/compression issue.

[NeoTifa]

@hex various test automation suites.

[andrewsw]

Nitewalkr, on 18 February 2017 - 10:01 PM, said:

I have been working with C# ASP.NET MVC as well, but everything seemed to have moved on to ASP.NET CORE which is a completely different set up.

Difference between ASP.NET Core MVC and ASP.NET MVC 5

I cannot imagine that a significant number of companies are moving quickly to ASP.NET CORE. There will be some companies that work at the cutting (or latest) edge, but even then adopting CORE would likely be for entirely new projects.

I am sure there are far more companies that are still working with legacy ASP.NET Web Forms, and ASP.NET Classic, than the relatively small number who will jump into CORE.

[Nitewalkr]

@andrewsw; I agree with you. It is just that, since I am gunning for an entry level job, the more that I know, the better. I have seen many who are still looking for people who know how to work with Web Forms and classic ASP.NET.

Allow me to share my mental state after you reading your post.

Last time I walked in to a scam where this man posted an ad for IT Seminar, promising that he will fix the CV as well as help us find a job. I called and made reservations to see what is up there and when I got there, I found one congested room with few people from India sitting here and listening to this guy talking on and on about how tough it is to get in and that he will charge $1600 to help them get their foot in the door by allowing them to work on a real life project in Agile scrum flow. Being an honest one, I walked in with the intent to have a second person look at my CV and fix it. He literally demotivated to the point where I felt like I was buried to the ground with my head popping out, where I am being stoned. He went through my CV and asked me if I was getting paid for all the work that I have been doing (which is making work samples / portfolio for web development.) He also asked me where is my Business Required Document, System Specification Document and Detailed Design Document, test plans and test cases and what not. He brought me under pressure and than finally he told me that I have to pay $1600 to have them fix my CV and take a QA testing course.

I walked out because, well, it was a scam. These guys weren't registered anywhere in the ministry of education. But those questions were engraved in my head indicting that I don't know anything or know very little, about the application development so I may not have a fair chance of getting into the industry and work on the real life application. So I am constantly learning new things and practicing the things that I know, while making random applications.

As for ASP.NET CORE and other stacks that I have been studying, it is better to have em and not need em, than need em and not have em. Not only that I think I should create mockup documents to show that I know something about documentation(s), mock up tests (even though they are not needed because I use logging and Unit Testing.)

This post has been edited by Nitewalkr: 19 February 2017 - 07:08 PM

[NeoTifa]

My project team is pissing me off. I'm taking a web apps project course that specializes in Ruby on Rails. You would think that as a professional senior ruby developer that my advice on how to do projects would be appreciated. Nope. We were discussing the project on wednesday and I mentioned "cron job" and one of the guys said he didn't know what it was so I started explaining what it was and how to use it and another guy on my team interrupted me and said "maybe it's something to prevent us from doxing the system" and the original guy was like "ah okay".



I was like uh no but they kept talking over me so I just sat on the other side of the room and started looking at the specs on the rubric. Then the original guy who didn't know what a cron job was said "we need a way to interact with the html" and so I said "that's what the nokogiri gem is for". Mr. Dox Cron Job Knowitall said "then we need to parse it. What even is nokogiri?" I said "it's a gem that helps parse XML files, and as we all know, HTML is basically just well formatted XML." So original guy is like "yeah so then we just need to figure out how to parse the HTML."



I just left at that point. I went home and set up the general architecture of how I feel the project should be laid out, with different directories, a singleton script file, a Gemfile (with require_all), etc. Today I log in to finally work on it and it's a shit mess with like several hundred lines of code all dumped in the singleton script file, other subdirs ignored, with several gem requires at the top, and custom unnecessary parsing.



So, basically, they ignored everything I say. It's not that freaking hard to build a web scraper oh my god. I straight up told them I'm restructuring it and laid everything out nice and neat and told them to finish it and even told them how. I said "I created a page class that will save the page html [using nokogiri] and scrape the info out [nokogiri again] and output the info to a map to be passed into the club class [we're scraping school clubs and frats]." Dude 2 hours later was like "splitting this up is hard and will mess up the parsing we have and the navigation clicking wont work."


(I'm in love with Tom Hiddleston as Loki. hnnngggg)

WHAT PART OF NOKOFUCKINGGIRI DIDN'T YOU UNDERSTAND HOLY SHIT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[jon.kiparsky]

Have you tried stabbing? I think this is a case that calls for a little gentle stabbing.

Or is that against the class rules?

[NeoTifa]

[removing obviously shitstrom inducing comment]

This post has been edited by NeoTifa: 20 February 2017 - 07:20 PM

[Nitewalkr]

NeoTifa, on 20 February 2017 - 03:19 AM, said:

I think that would be against university rules. Last time that happened the kid got shot in less than a minute. I guess not shouting "allahu akbar" might give me another minute of life though.

(jk I would never do anything like that)

excuse me?

This post has been edited by Nitewalkr: 19 February 2017 - 08:45 PM

[Nitewalkr]

You could've rephrased it in a more appropriate tone that wont offend people that consider you as a good friend here.

[depricated]

Why does that offend you?

[modi123_1]

My guess is someone is Muslim and didn't like neo pointing out a real world example - similar to the jokingly fictional 'gentle stabbing' suggested due to situational context for her.

Spoiler

NeoTifa, on 19 February 2017 - 09:19 PM, said:

I think that would be against university rules. Last time that happened the kid got shot in less than a minute. I guess not shouting "allahu akbar" might give me another minute of life though.

(jk I would never do anything like that)

[Nitewalkr]

yes, your guess is correct. I am Muslim and this offends me.

@modi, and if you think that based on the brutal picture media have been painting for you to see lead you to believe that this is a real life example, than I would say that you may freak out if you find out that the person is Muslim and judge him/her right away without giving him/her a chance.