That’s why we should still have apprenticeship's. As a team leader, a person should find people with trainable skills, but to do as our HR depts do and expect you to be an expert in a 100 different languages that have only been around for a few years and expect you to have 20 years experience in it, well that’s ludicrous in my humble opinion..
We need to educate the IT managers in the large corporations that they need to: 1. Find qualified people that they can work with. 2. Train these people in the techniques that they use to build the type of applications that they want Virgil Bierschwale http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike yearwood Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: What do I use in place of MSDE? Hi Whil > > When you first start with anything, what you write won't be the best. > > You have to learn the tricks to make things the best. Trust me, > > those starting with VFP will often make horribly performing > > applications due to ignorance of the things we all take foregranted, > > having worked with VFP for at least 5-10 years... > > Just ran across an application that looked like it was put together > pretty well, until an examination of the init() method of EVERY FORM > showed a huge list of 'public myvar...' statements, and a matching > list of 'release myvar' statements when the form was closed. > > The programmer didn't know about form properties, so in order to > maintain access to variables through the running of a form, he used > globals that he then very conscientiously cleaned up afterward. Why is that? I occasionally wonder if we must *toddle* before we walk let alone run. Why not teach best practices first? What value is there in banging ones' head against the wall? Certainly people can learn by a series of successful applications of best practices instead of an unsuccessful set of trial and errors? Mike Yearwood [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
