Are you on the cutting edge of technology?
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
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I lost track about five years ago, when I switched from development to the dark side of the force ( read process and methods development). And since I did not use .Net before ( I worked in the automotive embedded world), I've even missed the C# train. So I am a dinosaur ( MFC ? VC6.0 ?), actually a so old one that some Microsoft technologies which I have never learned are already extinct. There is no way I could catch up anymore, as this would be too much effort, and as for you, too much sacrifice. I truly admire the people here who managed to make the switch and follow the technology trend. :thumbsup:
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
I'm not i'm still in good old C and it's pretty straight down there at that level not much changes. People and process do but not much else.
James Binary Warrior.
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
It depends on what you do with the tools you have available. You can do cutting edge applications with older tools. An analogy could be like a person playing guitar. Buying a $2000 guitar does not make a person a better guitar player, but a good guitar player can make a $100 guitar sound great. Like the old saying: “It's Not What You Have…It's What You Do With It.” No, I'm not on the cutting edge, tool wise, but I am doing some cool, really cool stuff with what I have. :cool:
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
I still wear a pocket protector if that tells you anything.
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
That's why they call you "Mr. Slacker"!
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
Certainly not. If I was, our products would be run by a private cloud made of iPhones.
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
Slacker007 wrote:
My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology
Which is probably an appropriate interval for things that are actually worth anything to prove themselves versue stuff that is entirely worthless but everyone is sure will be the next greatest thing. Although five years might even be better. Then people will actually have some idea how to effectively use something and will have written something about doing just that. Versus someone writing three versions of an app using the same technology until they get to the point where they figure out how it should have been done.
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
I have been working front end WPF, and on that probably pretty close to being on the cutting edge, which is pretty dull now (not much has changed unfortunately). Started working with LINQ only about 2 years ago, and still learning. Finally started using the TPL. Was doing all this stuff with BackgroundWorker, and find out I had been working way too hard. Always seem to be learning something new, even in WPF.
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I still wear a pocket protector if that tells you anything.
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.0 ToDo Manager Extension
Version 3.0 now available. There is no place like 127.0.0.1So what do you put in the pocket protector. I almost never use a pen myself. If I need a pen I am almost sure not be be able to find one.
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No. I'm up to date on .Net 4.0 and Java 1.6 (we're using 1.7 now but I don't know what new features, if any, that includes). And ASP.net MVC. Anything in the last couple of years I have missed out on – for now, until I'm put onto a project that uses them.
You are not up to date. the new verion of .NET is 4.5.
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I'm not. I don't even use MVVM for WPF projects :~
So do you know what MVVM is. I use MVVM all the time but do not understand MVC.
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Actually I understand VS 6 is still strong since VB.NET has a fairly steep learning curve. If you do VBA you effectively do VB 6, and some things are still better done in VBA since can put code right in the document/spreadsheet/Access Database.
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
Started with java and Java Script years ago and gave it up. Jump started into C Sharp and ASP.Net and slowly into Windows Forms and WPF, and Now, just began with FSharp and Scala... So I do
Regards Vallarasu S | FSharpMe.blogspot.com
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So do you know what MVVM is. I use MVVM all the time but do not understand MVC.
I think I have a reasonable enough understanding of what MVVM is, I have just never seen the need for it in my own realm.
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
I would ask first: is it worth it? :confused:
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I was on the bleeding edge of Microsoft, but we have given that up as a mugs game given the speed at which Microsoft shifts direction now.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
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I agree. MS changes direction so far that by the tinme you have gotten proficient in a programming language, MS and others have shifted focus and have created a new HOT language. Why can't we add the required functionality to the existing languages instead of creating a new flavor of the month?
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I was on the bleeding edge of Microsoft, but we have given that up as a mugs game given the speed at which Microsoft shifts direction now.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
I am bleeding edge from the web perspective Building SPA with EF, SignalR, Knockout.js, who needs MVC controllers when you got Web API (which btw are .Net versions of J2EE Servlets) Also, from Visual Studio point of view I created my own template and project creation automation tied in with SVN, IIS, and TeamCity. Having too much fun! Essentially you check in a project as your "Template" Click a button.. creates a new project using the latest from the "Template" project Checks that new project in Creates the IIS Entry on the respective "Stage" or "Production" environment Creates the TeamCity build configuration which allows for auto-deploy to "Stage" environment or a push to "Production" button Wrap this with a CMS, lots of fun! :P
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
I feel exactly as you do. Since having kids, the few precious hours in the evening are devoted to them--homework, outdoor play, etc. I wouldn't trade it for anything, but there's no time left for trying new technologies. When my wife got me an iPad for Father's Day 3 years ago, it stoked my desire to learn Objective-C and I spent the next 3 months developing an app. From a programming standpoint it was the most fun I've had in a long time; reading the Apple docs in every free moment, writing code until midnight after the kids were asleep, actually relishing a sick day at home with a cold so I could bang out code for the app. However, my family life really suffered. The kids started noticing how I would jump on the computer while playing Hot Wheels with them and would lose the gist of the game, my wife said it made her feel lonely falling asleep with nobody beside her. It made me consider jumping ship from my secure-but-routine job to a web startup, but those tend to require long work hours. I'm trying to incorporate cutting-edge stuff on small projects here at work but it's hard to carve out the time in between required tasks. Not sure what the answer is. Sometime I think maybe I just had my time on the edge and it's someone else's turn (I had my fun at a dot-com in the whirlwind 90's so I can't complain). Sorry for the long-winded response but this struck a nerve for me because I feel the same way.
