Oracle bought Sun and their crown jewel Java, in a brilliant move to be able to compete and to break IBM's almost exclusive position as 'preferred' supplier in the financial world.
As a side effect I lost my job as a IBM middleware Engineer, now I - and with me tens of thousands elderly software engineers worldwide have to switch - again - to another highly demanded and prescribed software skillset, usable by the same financial instituitons. I decided not to reinvent myself and my software skills and to leave behind all these hyped and market steered madness I can recommend js and php as must haves to learn some 'basic' programming skills and for the more seasoned I suggest to have a look at Objective C, Apple's incarnation of the work done by the late Dennis Ritchie on which all iPhone/iPad apps are based Also very groundbreaking work done by Niklaus Wirth's Pascal evolved to another business dominated language: Delphi Some other 'creative' used softwares: ARM7-9 for basic gaming skills used by Apple and Nintendo, rather out of reach for beginners, try searching for devkitpro a toolchain heavely used by the famous hardcore DemoScene Good old 6502 and Z80 assembler for Atari/Commodore/AppleIIe/AppleIIGS all of which I have been actively involved with before starting to work for the Debt generating machinic industries, who dictate everything from top to bottom, preoccupied as they are with secrecy and fraud sensitiveness, resulting in incomprehensable formats and architectural methods It is as if logicality serves but one purpose, profitability and return on investment, thereby overlooking and simply ignoring the fun of programming The gaming/creative/movie/music industry relies upon a knowledgable, a- critical and flexible base of young hardworking skilled workers, underpaid , easy to fire and easily exchanged. China, India and Vietnam as an almost endless supply of cheap contemporary IT workers taking over from EU engineers, willing to work for a fraction of the 'normal' price Where and how are software skills degraded from a professional craft to a hobby 'free' time occupation? What are the benefits from it when being outsourced and jobless? The naivity - also expressed in this list - surrounding software practices is astonishing Andreas Maria Jacobs w: http://www.nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl On Jan 7, 2012, at 12:12, dave miller <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks Rob - have Oracle bought Sun? > > dave > > On 7 January 2012 10:58, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 07/01/12 10:51, dave miller wrote: >>> This is a great idea - have signed up, just hope it's not a lot of >>> work! >>> >>> Also - I need to learn java this year. Anyone recommend a good >>> starting point? I know php already >> >> Sun -er- Oracle have some good tutorials on their site - >> >> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/ >> >> O'Reilly's Java tutorial is a couple of versions behind the current >> Java >> version but they're usually good - >> >> http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596008734.do >> >> - Rob. >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
