Re: As programmers...have we come a long way since 1993?
From: Bill Godfrey (billg-usenet_at_bacchae.f9.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 10/08/03
- Next message: Jussi Jumppanen: "Re: Dumb Windows linking question."
- Previous message: Player: "Re: worried"
- In reply to: Richard Heathfield: "Re: As programmers...have we come a long way since 1993?"
- Next in thread: Rotes Sapiens: "Re: As programmers...have we come a long way since 1993?"
- Reply: Rotes Sapiens: "Re: As programmers...have we come a long way since 1993?"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Date: 08 Oct 2003 09:47:19 GMT
binary@eton.powernet.co.uk wrote:
> the Tottenham Court Road, IIRC. Literally within 60 seconds of being
> shown how to use the browser, I'd managed to locate detailed instructions
> on how to build an atomic bomb. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Ah, so that's the mysterious project in that room next to the bathroom.
> amounts of experience in half the alphabet ("must have five years
> XML/HTML/.NET/ASP/VB/COM/Linux/Alpha/VAX/ATL/PPX/PHB/DIU"). (And yes, I
When I rather young (in 1996) just out of university and not at all sure
what I was going to do in life, I went for a job interview for a bank who
were looking to build a web site. They already had the database for
customers to use and the job was an alternative web front end in addition
to the dial-in BBS they already had.
They wanted "HTML, Javascript, VBScript, Java" and few more buzzwords I
forget. (From thier list, I knew a bit of HTML, but I'm no artist.)
Crucially, they didn't list CGI, C, C++, Perl, or indeed anything to do
with programming the server side software to talk to the database. It was
all presentational technology without any thought of how the actual data
would get from the database to the user and back again.
"Did they just want a designer to create a brochure-ware web site?" I asked
the recruitment agent.
"No no, they want the user to have access to the database through the web
site.", they replied.
The interview didn't go to well. They knew what they wanted, but they had
no idea what sort of skills were needed to the job. He knew that you'd need
a programming language to mangle the data in the database. What programming
language can web browsers use?
They didn't employ me in the end. I shudder to think what whoever they did
employ came up with.
Bill, if (user_password != access_db(userid,"pass"))
{ document.write("<p>Access denied.); }
-- The address in the reply to header is correct, but I'll read it quicker if you drop the word "usenet".
- Next message: Jussi Jumppanen: "Re: Dumb Windows linking question."
- Previous message: Player: "Re: worried"
- In reply to: Richard Heathfield: "Re: As programmers...have we come a long way since 1993?"
- Next in thread: Rotes Sapiens: "Re: As programmers...have we come a long way since 1993?"
- Reply: Rotes Sapiens: "Re: As programmers...have we come a long way since 1993?"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Relevant Pages
|
