I'm 35 now. At 23 I could not turn on a computer and at 29, I was so proud to create a file by typing "ls > somefile.txt". Since this break though moment I have learned about 10 languages and continue to study everyday but I am still very much behind the average on this list. I work with scientific instrument hardware and just code evenings and weekends, >90% of this time is studying.
Back in 2007 I really barely understood what a database table was and had no clue about what a primary key was, yet I was able to hack together a database backed PHP site. My piece-O-crap, 1/3 finished site soon outranked a competitor with over 40M in revenue for the most critical keyword, I understood the content but their design team did not. PHP has a reputation as a poorly designed language. I think factor is the anti-PHP but this is good and bad. Rasmus didn't design PHP for CS students and he is proud to hear of a story of a dentist who wrote a PHP application to organize his clinic. The barrier to entry with PHP is a joke but for me at least, factor is like storming the beaches of Normandy alone, armed with with a pointy stick. I am determined to learn this language and once I do, I want to write a book to make it easier for people like me to learn it after. I was thinking of writing a "pocket guide" to the language. It would be 100 pages of 8.5 X 11 sheets or less. I was planning on distributing it for free as a PDF but selling hard copies which wold be printed in batches of 2s or 3s at a local store. Here in Canada it is super easy to get an ISBN number so I would get one. Any objections to this? It would be 2-6 months away. Assuming it is available at no charge, could I use code samples from the documentation? Thanks for reading-Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
