> Well Isaac as I keep saying, everyone is entitled to an > opinion. And mine is > that your the one who will be left fishing for scraps, > because I can't see > many companies giving a job to someone like you who is so > arrogant and > living with his head up his own ass and thinks everyone is > below him. Most > big companie shave their own set of standards, and > refusing to adhere by > them and telling your employers they are stupid idiots for > not agreeing with > you really wont do u any favours. > A solid understanding of life and people and how to get on > with them is > required in the real world, something you appear to lack. > Your probably to be one of those bedroom coders who can't > get on with anyone > or anything so just keeps to himself and locks himself in > a dark room where > he doesn't have to meet people and risk getting beaten up > cozz you cannot > help but insult them.
> I feel sorry for you really. > Russ Is anybody else wondering who he's trying to convince? Is there even any reason for me to respond to verbal abuse like this? Am I perceived as being so arrogant? Does anybody else want to support Russ? I'm not being snarky or facetious here, I really would like to know if people perceive me that way. If there's a general feeling that I present myself in a way that encourages this perception of me having a superiority complex, I'd like to know if there's something I can do to change the way I present myself. Bedroom coders: No, I gave two presentations at cf.Objective this year. Corporate standards: I was at Site Manageware for 1.5 years and adhered to every one of the standards they decided on, in spite of disagreeing with quite a few of them. I've also done quite a bit of Fusebox work and adhered to those standards in spite of being preferential to other methods. People: I get along with them fairly well. From about the time I joined Site Manageware I became the de-facto "answer guy" because I enjoy helping people and the other programmers could tell that I enjoyed helping them and that in many cases I simply had more experience than them. It wasn't my job. I wasn't even a manager of any kind. My supervisor made all the architectural decisions, although he generally included me in discussion about them. Probably a good 50% of the architectural decisions he made were contrary to my input and that never bothered me. Arrogance: I do believe that I have more experience than most ColdFusion programmers, but then I've been working with ColdFusion for 8 years and it's only been around for a little over 10, so there's not a whole lot of room for people to have more hands-on experience than I do, although there certainly are some and I learn new things about it all the time. I know when I've produced something that nobody else has published in the community (ex: sql language abstraction, xml rule managers), but I'm not so arrogant as to think that nobody else has done these things and simply not published them or that nobody else could. I also acknowledge when others have done things I haven't, like Tartan, ColdSpring and COAL. I don't think any of us is above or below anyone else, we just have different experiences and different opinions. My personal opinions about the nature of programming are based on what we know collectively about economics. During the 80's I had a huge collection of casette tapes and VHS. They're all gone now, asside from a handful of VHS. Why? Because the increased supply of CD/DVD technology devalued them and made them no longer profitable to manufacture. The same is true of any set of skills - increased supply of new skills will bring the price of them down and devalue older skills. s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237297 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
