You're forgiven... but only because it's Friday afternoon ;-). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Comb Sent: Friday, 15 July 2005 4:30 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Skill shortage?
would generally fail part two :) Sorry Dave but had to say it. Matt. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 4:20 PM Subject: RE: [DUG] Skill shortage? > Personally, I identify a good programmer by...... LOOKING IN THE MIRROR > ......hahahaaha...well someone had to say it :-) :-) > > Jeremy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On > Behalf Of David O'Brien > Sent: 15 July 2005 16:10 > To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' > Subject: RE: [DUG] Skill shortage? > > How do you identify a good programmer. > > David O'Brien > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On > Behalf Of David Brennan > Sent: Friday, 15 July 2005 4:05 p.m. > To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' > Subject: RE: [DUG] Skill shortage? > > What do you mean? > > An excellent programmer = 2.5 good programmers = 10 mediocre programmers = > infinite number of poor programmers > > Something like that? Or are you meaning how do you identify a good > programmer? > > -----Original Message----- > > Secondly, how do employers rate a good programmer? > > David O'Brien > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On > Behalf Of Neven MacEwan > Sent: Friday, 15 July 2005 2:07 p.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: Re: [DUG] Skill shortage? > > David > > This is exactly my point, .Net was a reaction to Java, XAML is reactive to > XUL, Freedom to inovate, bullshit, I also find in hilarious that people > who > buy into the M$ justify it on the consistency of supply where recent > history > would indicate the opposite > > What I love about OS dev products is changes are total demand driven with > no > subtext > > n > > > David Brennan wrote: >> It is a danger with .NET. Compare with Internet Explorer. IE got mega > bucks >> thrown at it by Microsoft because they perceived a threat that >> Netscape could eventually provide an alternative to the Windows >> platform by having > a >> multi-platform rich interface web browser. >> >> Once Microsoft had strangled Netscape and ensure market dominance they >> suddenly killed IE development. Almost all of the new technologies >> which > had >> been under development for a richer browser environment were >> effectively > put >> on hold at the same time... which was probably Microsoft's plan from >> the start. >> >> I see some parallels here. Java was getting too much popularity behind >> it and it's cross platform nature and rich interface potential was/is >> a > serious >> threat. So .NET is unleashed upon the world. >> >> The difference is that Java isn't likely to die like Netscape did. So >> Microsoft may end up having to push .NET as their long term solution > rather >> than just using it for a single battle. Only time will tell I guess. >> >> David.-----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On >> Behalf Of Neven MacEwan >> Sent: Friday, 15 July 2005 1:06 p.m. >> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List >> Subject: Re: [DUG] Skill shortage? >> >> RE: >> >> >>>There are some big shops still using as far as I can tell, but a lot >>>have moved to .NET over the last 2 years. >> >> >> Now that M$ have sucessfully used .net to restrict Java in the >> middleware area, will they focus on the UI again and push XAML >> >> In which case these guys will have to move again >> >> bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, >> bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, >> bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, >> bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, >> bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah.. >> > > -- > Neven MacEwan (B.E. 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