How do I commit myself to side-projects?
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I really want to make something.I'm bored, I have not touched any code for 6 months and as a bonus, it looks good to employers to have side projects (supposedly) The problem is, I can't find and commit to an idea. I want to make something practical. Sure, I could make a clone of something or make yet another boring todo list, but what's the point. Employers aren't going to care that you built a clone of (insert something here) that has 0 active users and just sits in a Github repo. I've also tried the whole "make something you would use" and wind up finding out someone has already done it and better than I could do it.
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Collaborate on a project. Code to www.codeplex.com and find a project that interests you and get involved.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
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James_Parsons wrote:
that ByteStuck site looks like the type of site I was looking for a few days ago
Exactly. :) Hence the reason for creating it. :laugh: Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
Is this your site?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
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Is this your site?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Kevin Marois wrote:
Is this your site?
Certainly. I wouldn't post a link to something that wasn't mine! Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Kevin Marois wrote:
Is this your site?
Certainly. I wouldn't post a link to something that wasn't mine! Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
What are you using on the backend?
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Kevin Marois wrote:
Is this your site?
Certainly. I wouldn't post a link to something that wasn't mine! Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
OK. Looks promising. When I go to Projects/Jobs = > View Public Projects/Jobs or Projects/Jobs = > Geek Matches I get "Route not found"
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
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I really want to make something.I'm bored, I have not touched any code for 6 months and as a bonus, it looks good to employers to have side projects (supposedly) The problem is, I can't find and commit to an idea. I want to make something practical. Sure, I could make a clone of something or make yet another boring todo list, but what's the point. Employers aren't going to care that you built a clone of (insert something here) that has 0 active users and just sits in a Github repo. I've also tried the whole "make something you would use" and wind up finding out someone has already done it and better than I could do it.
i cri evry tiem
Well, Windows has already been done, but I don't think you'd have any problem doing it better.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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Of course the people who advanced the PC market had the connections, money, marketing to do so.
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James_Parsons wrote:
Of course the people who advanced the PC market had the connections, money, marketing to do so.
Ehr.. that is not exactly what happened. The OS became the standard thanks to software-piracy.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
we'd be working from the Workbench on an Amiga computer
It was good in it's day :)
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
a decent crossplatform SQL editor
Have you tried DataGrip from JetBrains?
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
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I really want to make something.I'm bored, I have not touched any code for 6 months and as a bonus, it looks good to employers to have side projects (supposedly) The problem is, I can't find and commit to an idea. I want to make something practical. Sure, I could make a clone of something or make yet another boring todo list, but what's the point. Employers aren't going to care that you built a clone of (insert something here) that has 0 active users and just sits in a Github repo. I've also tried the whole "make something you would use" and wind up finding out someone has already done it and better than I could do it.
i cri evry tiem
James_Parsons wrote:
I have not touched any code for 6 months
James_Parsons wrote:
it looks good to employers
Um, er, why haven't you touched code in 6 months? Reason why I ask is because you mention this fact in the same paragraph as the word "employers". I would not hire you if you haven't touched code in 6 months without a very, very good reason. Just curious.
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James_Parsons wrote:
I have not touched any code for 6 months
James_Parsons wrote:
it looks good to employers
Um, er, why haven't you touched code in 6 months? Reason why I ask is because you mention this fact in the same paragraph as the word "employers". I would not hire you if you haven't touched code in 6 months without a very, very good reason. Just curious.
Haha, I guess it doesn't matter I wouldn't get hired anyway ;P . I'm an 18 year old kid straight out of high school with little experience living in one of the worst states for the industry. I haven't touched code in 6 months because after graduating, I had no more projects to work on.
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Haha, I guess it doesn't matter I wouldn't get hired anyway ;P . I'm an 18 year old kid straight out of high school with little experience living in one of the worst states for the industry. I haven't touched code in 6 months because after graduating, I had no more projects to work on.
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College plans? Military plans - non-combat, with technical MOS (programming, etc.)? If you love to code then you need to show an employment timeline with full-time coding, software development, etc. I would focus more on that then side projects, IMHO. I don't consider people for employment based on their "side projects".
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College plans? Military plans - non-combat, with technical MOS (programming, etc.)? If you love to code then you need to show an employment timeline with full-time coding, software development, etc. I would focus more on that then side projects, IMHO. I don't consider people for employment based on their "side projects".
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College plans? Military plans - non-combat, with technical MOS (programming, etc.)?
Actually, I recently failed to get into the Army, Now trying the Air Force.
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College plans? Military plans - non-combat, with technical MOS (programming, etc.)?
Actually, I recently failed to get into the Army, Now trying the Air Force.
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James_Parsons wrote:
Now trying the Air Force.
Air force or Navy is best for technical jobs. I would start with Air Force. If you go military, then go non-combat MOS (Mission Occupational Specialty) and pick a speciality that you know will help you get employment when you get out (i.e. software development, etc.) I was in the Infantry but if I had to do it over again, I would go Air Force. Good luck. :)
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You've got to look forward, to the future. Make a power-governor for lightsabres.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Well, according to the story line in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, he will need to harvest some Kyber Crystals if he is going to do lightsaber work. Don't know if we have any on this planet. :sigh:
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I really want to make something.I'm bored, I have not touched any code for 6 months and as a bonus, it looks good to employers to have side projects (supposedly) The problem is, I can't find and commit to an idea. I want to make something practical. Sure, I could make a clone of something or make yet another boring todo list, but what's the point. Employers aren't going to care that you built a clone of (insert something here) that has 0 active users and just sits in a Github repo. I've also tried the whole "make something you would use" and wind up finding out someone has already done it and better than I could do it.
i cri evry tiem
James_Parsons wrote:
I've also tried the whole "make something you would use" and wind up finding out someone has already done it and better than I could do it.
I agree with the idea of making something you would use. This is very practical advice. My best 'side projects' have been little utilities that I now use just about every day both on or off the job. There's sure to be at least one small utility application you currently use that could be just a little better...maybe a better UI or an added feature or two. Start from scratch and/or use samples/examples from working code (with proper credits of course!) to make something that you can get immediate results from and improve on over time.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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What are you using on the backend?
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James_Parsons wrote:
What are you using on the backend?
My own web server (no IIS dependencies, nor is it ASP.NET / Razor.) I haven't written about the web server back end much, but the code is open source[^]. ByteStruck itself is not open source. Also, SQL Server Express, hosted on an Amazon EC2. Core web "frameworks" are jQuery (of course), jqWidgets, and Knockout. Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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OK. Looks promising. When I go to Projects/Jobs = > View Public Projects/Jobs or Projects/Jobs = > Geek Matches I get "Route not found"
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Kevin Marois wrote:
I get "Route not found"
Indeed - missing implementation. :) I actually usually don't have the server running, I fired it up actually when I wrote my original reply, haha. Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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What are you using on the backend?
i cri evry tiem
Oh, and I forgot, Bootstrap as well, like everyone else. :sigh: Marc
V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Well, according to the story line in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, he will need to harvest some Kyber Crystals if he is going to do lightsaber work. Don't know if we have any on this planet. :sigh:
That's hardware. Leave that for the mechanical engineers to screw up. The software's worth making a start on now, though.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Care to explain why? I'm generally very happy with JetBrains products. I use ReSharper on a daily basis for 8 years now, and I also often use IntelliJ, Data Grip, PHP Storm and PyCharm. In a previous company, we used YouTrack. And with the exception of YouTrack (it still needs to mature a bit), everything else is awesome. I'm very curious to know with which of their product were you so disappointed that you avoid them just by hearing the company name.