IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Kid McNamara]

I got my CISSP too, been eating lovely out here. But I'm not gonna lie I'm ready for a career change, getting tired of IT

I just wanna lay on a beach all day with some scotch, a blunt, and some good food

The Goal.

See I was just in the same boat...damn, when I come back, we gon chop it up my dude.

 

[J-Nice]

Wassup brehs? I got my A+ cert awhile back and came to the conclusion that I don't wanna enter the networking side of things. I'm really interested in Web development and building platforms. What skills would I need to build a website like youtube (a video and streaming site) and maintain it?

 

[TRFG]

Wassup brehs? I got my A+ cert awhile back and came to the conclusion that I don't wanna enter the networking side of things. I'm really interested in Web development and building platforms. What skills would I need to build a website like youtube (a video and streaming site) and maintain it?

start with HTML and CSS first.

 

[RubioTheCruel]

Wassup brehs? I got my A+ cert awhile back and came to the conclusion that I don't wanna enter the networking side of things. I'm really interested in Web development and building platforms. What skills would I need to build a website like youtube (a video and streaming site) and maintain it?

This really isn't my forte but it sounds like you want to be a full stack web developer. You're gonna need to know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, a programming language(Python, Ruby), a DBMS(PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL), and an OS to deploy all this stuff(Linux based, typically CentOS or Ubuntu Server using nginx or apache).

 

[Bugatti Biceps]

Pay for skills you can learn at home in your free time brehs.

 

[TRFG]

Pay for skills you can learn at home in your free time brehs.

So you're saying an IT degree is a waste?

 

[Bugatti Biceps]

So you're saying an IT degree is a waste?

If you were the bottom 10% of your class growing up, then no. If you were in the top 50% of your schooling growing up, then hell yeah its a waste.

 

[Disgustya Stallone]

shocked to see no one going after cloud certs... azure or aws... the days of being an onsite admin (in any discipline, networks, virt, storage, compute etc) has an extremely short fuse

 

[kevm3]

Wassup brehs? I got my A+ cert awhile back and came to the conclusion that I don't wanna enter the networking side of things. I'm really interested in Web development and building platforms. What skills would I need to build a website like youtube (a video and streaming site) and maintain it?

There are typically two sides to web development, which is front-end and then there is server-side. Full-stack developers do both front-end and server-side development.

To start off, you'll have to learn HTML and CSS, which was suggested, but you can only make static pages. You then need to pick up Javascript to round off your front-end development. After you have the front-end wrapped up, then you need to deal with the server-side in order to actually start serving content. You could do Javascript on the server-side with Node.js, but I don't recommend that for someone who is beginning on server-side development. PIck up Ruby and try OnRails.. or if you like C# better, you could do asp.net mvc 5.

 

[J-Nice]

There are typically two sides to web development, which is front-end and then there is server-side. Full-stack developers do both front-end and server-side development.

To start off, you'll have to learn HTML and CSS, which was suggested, but you can only make static pages. You then need to pick up Javascript to round off your front-end development. After you have the front-end wrapped up, then you need to deal with the server-side in order to actually start serving content. You could do Javascript on the server-side with Node.js, but I don't recommend that for someone who is beginning on server-side development. PIck up Ruby and try OnRails.. or if you like C# better, you could do asp.net mvc 5.

Thanks. Is there any software where I could practice?

 

[Bugatti Biceps]

Thanks. Is there any software where I could practice?

bento.io

Get you a droplet on Digital Ocean for 5 bucks a month and go nuts.

 

[kevm3]

Thanks. Is there any software where I could practice?

Everything you need for web development is free.
Download visual studio code:
https://code.visualstudio.com/

or Brackets
A modern, open source code editor that understands web design

as your text editor and get started. You just essentially write your html/css/javascript in your editor and then check out the result in your browser.

 

[Trustus]

Thanks. Is there any software where I could practice?

If you go the cloud server route, this tut will help you set one up quickly. He has a ton of other tuts on different topics.

Also here's another source for learning html/css Shay Howe's site I learned alot from it.
Learn to Code HTML & CSS
One more thing, if you want to see what you can do with css and learn some new tricks this site is cool. CSS Design Awards - Website Awards & Inspiration - CSS Gallery - CSSDA

 

[the bossman]

@bdizzle

About to take this CCIE (R&S) lab, but I'm thinking I might go back and grab either CCNP Security or CCDP after I finish.

I've avoided the Cisco Security line because the focus seemed a bit Cisco proprietary. Now this is true of all Cisco material, but after taking CCNA Security, I'd had enough of dealing with simulated ASAs and GUIs that...you know...no organization uses in real life.

Question: Is there enough Cisco independent security material to spend time wading through CCNP-Sec or is it a bunch of DMVPN and ASA shyt?

proud to see coli nikkas not settling for mediocrity and going out here & goin after that expert money. I failed the CCIE Collab lab in May. Getting ready to go back next month.

btw. The best thing Cisco did recently this month was fall back on that bs new re-take policy. They changed it last year so that if you failed more than twice you'd have to wait 90 days in between each attempt then 180 after 4th. You can take every 30 days now if you have to until December. Keep pushing bruh. If you fail go right back immediately. When you fail it sucks knowing you just paid $1600 for a lunch but once you finally pass. the opportunities

 

[Kid McNamara]

proud to see coli nikkas not settling for mediocrity and going out here & goin after that expert money. I failed the CCIE Collab lab in May. Getting ready to go back next month.

btw. The best thing Cisco did recently this month was fall back on that bs new re-take policy. They changed it last year so that if you failed more than twice you'd have to wait 90 days in between each attempt then 180 after 4th. You can take every 30 days now if you have to until December. Keep pushing bruh. If you fail go right back immediately. When you fail it sucks knowing you just paid $1600 for a lunch but once you finally pass. the opportunities

Lets get it. Update the thread when you pass my dude