Re: [OT] Sit/stand desk results

[Tony Wright]

Hi Tom,

It changes for me. Sometimes I stand, sometimes I sit. If I feel that I've
been sitting for too long, I hit the buttons and stand for a while. I'm not
regretful for one second that I have the option.

Regards,
Tony

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Tom Rutter  wrote:

> Hey folks
>
> I recall a while ago discussion into sit/stand desks and was interested in
> how people went with this setup. Did those that tried standing get any good
> (or bad) results? Are they still doing it or went back to only sitting?
>
> Cheers
>

Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting Dev should know these days?

[Preet Sangha]

Thanks guys. I suspect that what I'm really after is the answer to the
question "I'm gonna do some web dev to support my IOT projects, and to make
the skills saleable, what web technologies should I consider as must haves
these days?"

I can see that javascript is the big one! As a .netter I'll obviously get
reskilled in MVC and I already have ORM & SQL skills anyway.

Again thanks for taking the time for your detailed answers!



regards,
Preet, in Auckland NZ


On 18 June 2017 at 15:02, Stephen Price  wrote:

> Yes, I'm currently working on an Android application which is part of a
> product suite.
>
>
> The work going on in the Xamarin space is very active. Many new features
> and bug fixes coming out regularly.
>
> Mature is a relative term I think. If you compare Xamarin with other
> frameworks that have been around longer and are relatively slow moving (ie
> say WPF) then yeah you could say its less mature.
>
>
> If you want stable, then I would say that is there. The stable releases
> are stable enough to use in production. Perfect? No, but each new release
> is more stable than the last. Currently seeing several releases per month.
> Show stopper bugs are unusual.
>
>
> Looking at your post about getting into web technologies, I would say that
> it would be difficult as a developer today to be able to be all over Web
> technologies as well as Xamarin/mobile. Throw desktop into that and you
> further dilute your skill focus. I have worked with all of these, desktop,
> web and mobile. My experience is if you focus on one of them, keeping up to
> date, then you miss things in the others. Last year I was working on
> Angular 2 (about the time it released, I was using the final RC's) and I
> don't even know what version it's at now.
>
>
> It takes a lot of time to keep up to speed with so many fast moving
> fronts. The more time you have available the more of them you can keep on
> top off. I guess it comes down to your personal interests and goals on
> which you focus on. Which do you enjoy the most? Do you contract or
> permanent? Do you enjoy going deep on one technology or like to spread your
> skills across many different technologies? If you do go deep on one, then
> that will take you away from others.
>
>
> Do what you love, you will do way better at it and it won't even feel like
> work. Changing from one technology to another can take time as employers
> tend to hire people with experience. I think you are on the right path
> finding out the must haves to learn, but finding the "right" one might be a
> much harder task as there are so many. In all my years as a developer,
>  I've never seen two projects using identical technology stacks. Even when
> you compare two Angular projects, or whatever.
>
> That's gotta make choosing what to learn so much harder.
>
>
> cheers
>
> Stephen
>
>
>
> --
> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com  on
> behalf of Preet Sangha 
> *Sent:* Sunday, 18 June 2017 9:59:16 AM
> *To:* ozDotNet
> *Subject:* Re: What are the WebDev technologies that any self respecting
> Dev should know these days?
>
> Are the. Net core skills in demand where you guys are based? Is anyone
> doing commercial projects in the portable technologies?
>
> I've read about people experience of xamarin on the list and it doesn't
> seem to resonate as mature technology.
>
> On 16/06/2017 11:00 pm, "Preet Sangha"  wrote:
>
>> Cheers. I appreciate the feedback.
>>
>> regards,
>> Preet, in Auckland NZ
>>
>>
>> On 16 June 2017 at 20:07, Bec C  wrote:
>>
>>> Melb market is also filled with Dynamics and Sitecore work.
>>>
>>> But as .net dude said JS is where it's all at. I found it very hard to
>>> get work in Melb with no Angular or React experience.
>>>
>>> "Full stack" they usually want Angular or React, css, webapi, entity
>>> framework, sql server.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, 16 June 2017, DotNet Dude  wrote:
>>>
 Hey Preet,

 Generally, Azure and JS frameworks like React and Angular is where "it"
 is mostly at these days as far as general .net wed dev goes. It
 also depends on location from my experience. I'm not familiar with the
 Auckland market at all. In Melbourne most of the maintenance work is in
 mvc, very little if any webforms, LOTS of Angular/React/whatever JS
 framework. Same for Sydney. Canberra is mostly webforms and mvc from what I
 know (govt is usually a bit behind), Qld and WA I am not sure about.

 If you're wanting to get back into web dev I would ask you why. Not
 joking. :) If your reason is because you want to update and get back into
 it I'd say go hard on Javascript. If you're after money I'd say forget all
 that and get into Salesforce lol. Kidding. Well not really. As I said
 earlier you need to know your market too if you're wanting to be