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[lauralh]

OK, so am I a huge dork for getting all revved up about built-in datagrids in ASP.NET ? I can't help it, it combines my two great loves, dynamically-rendered HTML and databases. One thing I miss about having an NT web server. I guess I should learn whatever the FreeBSD equivalent is (jsp?) if I don't get this job, so I can be the webdev nerd I've always dreamed about.

Or maybe I'll just write another novel.

Comments

[sisyphus.livejournal.com]

I'm writing in PHP on an Apache server running on *nix right now. PHP is your friend -- it's free, powerful, Yahoo just decided to start using it, interfaces very well with MySql and PostgreSQL, the two best free database solutions (LJ runs a backend mysql database as far as I know), widely used and has an awesome user community. also microsoft sucks. If you decide you are serious about it, i have a number of php related books in pdf format i can throw up on the web for you to go get. I also have webspace on a Unix server you can play with if by some chance you don't have access to such(which you should...all the hippies in seattle love free software don't they?)

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Yeah I have access to a FreeBSD server, and actually my housemate just informed me that his pirate perfectly legal copy of NT is the server edition and we can set it up through the firewall anytime.

But believe it or not, none of the hippies in Seattle really give a damn about software, and none of the programmers (well, few of them) give a damn about hippie shit. Microsoft owns this town. I can't say I'm willing to tell them to go fuck themselves either, when I've been unemployed for nearly six months.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

It's all about open source, and it's all about FreeBSD.

And let me fucking tell you something, if you've ever had to deal with disaster recovery procedures on an Exchange or SQL Server database, you will learn to REALLY FUCKING APPRECIATE a system like MySQL in which "backing up the database" simply means copying all the files in your database's directory somewhere else, and "restoring the database" means copying them right back in.

::sighs happily::

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

::does the "Ha ha I'm a developer not an admin" happy dance in your face::

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

developers that don't consider what it's like to have to USE the shit they develop make Jim a homicidal boy.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Dude, it's the managers clients that pick and choose the fuckin' software.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

if you hadn't snuck "managers" in there I'd have had to spank you.

[biffious.livejournal.com]

I get to do both. I sit there and dev up something, then I have to go on-site and play DB admin. And then train the users. And provide support. I need a more role-specific role.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

I need a more role-specific role.

Specialization is for insects.

[lisa.livejournal.com]

yeah but the *cool* jobs are with companies who are utilizing open source software. just because "cool" usually means "has no money".

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's kind of a problem for me. having no money, I mean.