IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Data-Hawk]

Yo @Data-Hawk what web framework y'all using at your shop? Y'all using ASP.Net or ASP.Net MVC?

MVC ( even though I'm not apart of that group, but the lady that sits in front me uses it ). Right now my company is spending a ton of $$$$ on training. Our #1 priority is to move everything away from Mainframe/Cobal & Java to Microsoft's platform. Think we are spending close to a million a month on our mainframe systems .... shyt is beyond a pain to deal with esp with web services( had the security team track me down earlier this year because I didn't pass a certain parameter when making the call and supposedly an alert through email is sent out to everybody and something like 5,000 emails were sent out ) IMHO the call should of failed instead of going through if that was the case..owell


Edit: for our main website, I have no idea what those guys are doing over there. All I know is the servers are running on Suse Linux so it's not MS related.

 

[Chris.B]

MVC ( even though I'm not apart of that group, but the lady that sits in front me uses it ). Right now my company is spending a ton of $$$$ on training. Our #1 priority is to move everything away from Mainframe/Cobal & Java to Microsoft's platform. Think we are spending close to a million a month on our mainframe systems .... shyt is beyond a pain to deal with esp with web services( had the security team track me down earlier this year because I didn't pass a certain parameter when making the call and supposedly an alert through email is sent out to everybody and something like 5,000 emails were sent out ) IMHO the call should of failed instead of going through if that was the case..owell


Edit: for our main website, I have no idea what those guys are doing over there. All I know is the servers are running on Suse Linux so it's not MS related.

Seems to me you just described a government job?
Stuff like this rarely happens in the private sector

 

[semtex]

this capstone class is a bytch This bytch asking for every type of diagram on this deliverable.

 

[Data-Hawk]

Ah fukk it. I need to speed up development n just get something out. hopefully by this Friday i can post a dropbox link to a very early demo of the game.

 

[Yakno1]

MVC ( even though I'm not apart of that group, but the lady that sits in front me uses it ). Right now my company is spending a ton of $$$$ on training. Our #1 priority is to move everything away from Mainframe/Cobal & Java to Microsoft's platform. Think we are spending close to a million a month on our mainframe systems .... shyt is beyond a pain to deal with esp with web services( had the security team track me down earlier this year because I didn't pass a certain parameter when making the call and supposedly an alert through email is sent out to everybody and something like 5,000 emails were sent out ) IMHO the call should of failed instead of going through if that was the case..owell

Edit: for our main website, I have no idea what those guys are doing over there. All I know is the servers are running on Suse Linux so it's not MS related.

that's cray

 

[Chris.B]

What's your guys opinion on learning coding languages like Ruby or Python? Do you see the career prospects good/bad vs going the cert route mostly mentioned in here? If there is another thread for coding let me know. I'm still a newbie to all this. Help me tech gurus

python is free money, learn it and you will never be broke.

 

[Data-Hawk]

that's cray

ya man. The mainframe is the backbone of this company. I remeber when I was working at the Help desk and the mainframe went down( only time in my 7 yrs here ) I thought people went ape shyt when exchange goes down. lol. thats nothing. We were losing 100's of thousands of dollars I forgot how quick but it had to be by the hr.

funny enough I met the desktop guy who caused it and he said something along the lines of cables coming out.lol

 

[FreshFromATL]

Beginning programmers. Learn about dependency injection, what it mean for your classes to be "loosely coupled", and inversion of control containers.

 

[Data-Hawk]

Quick Screenshot of some progress( Using Toon Shaders ) Damn Animal wont stay up after applying Gravity to it..lol

 

[havoc]

Hey, fellas, I deleted my boot partition while attempting to reinstall window 7. Does anyone in here has a window 7 iso file that I can download to reinstall my operating system ?

 

[Kartel13]

Hey, fellas, I deleted my boot partition while attempting to reinstall window 7. Does anyone in here has a window 7 iso file that I can download to reinstall my operating system ?

You should get it here:
http://www.w7forums.com/threads/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-image-downloads.12325/

 

[havoc]

You should get it here:
http://www.w7forums.com/threads/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-image-downloads.12325/

THanks

 

[Grand Eeezus Maxwell]

Yo, what's with the hate towards IT on the Coli??? All I see is "Blah, blah, blah, Coli IT cert millionaires...'. Do they realize without IT they'd be fukked?

 

[Data-Hawk]

Yo, what's with the hate towards IT on the Coli??? All I see is "Blah, blah, blah, Coli IT cert millionaires...'. Do they realize without IT they'd be fukked?

The salaries....Plus we don't need as much "Offical" schooling as the rest......But just like everybody else we have to start at the bottom and work our way up...

 

[FreshFromATL]

Yo, what's with the hate towards IT on the Coli??? All I see is "Blah, blah, blah, Coli IT cert millionaires...'. Do they realize without IT they'd be fukked?

I always thought it was just a running joke