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Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/19/05 14:15
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:40:52 -0400, "TJ" <noemail@none.invalid> wrote:
>> It's only a contract.
>
>"*only* a contract"?
Indeed. There's plenty of them out there. This question is all about
accepting one, probably short, contract. The big picture is about the
next contract too.
In the mid-90s (pre-Web commerce) I worked on M$oft tools. Big systems -
big server farms of SQL and DCOM. In '97 I went into ASP from the first
launch. Around 2000 though I was fed up with M$oft's trampling of
standards (particularly SOAP) and I didn't like how .NET or BizTalk were
shaping up. So I switched to Java.
Now what do I do if an ASP contract comes up? I've got plenty of ASP,
I've got huge past experience with DCOM that's still very useful for a
big M$ back-end. But any time I do more ASP it makes me less of a "Java
guy" and more back towards being a M$oft peon. If there's a new Java
buzzword around (Struts was probably the most recent) then the
recruiters will be looking for that in the near future and it's much
more important for me to get some visibility with it, rather than to
take something back with ASP that's perhaps a commercially better
one-off deal, but not such a good long-term investment.
>Exactly. Your boss want's what HE (and likely HIS boss) wants, NOT what YOU
>want.
It's not about what anyone wants, it's about what they _need_. I know
what they need, they frequently don't. I'm the consultant, that's what
they're paying the money for. They pay the big bucks because I'm right,
ad the historical evidence of how my recommendations worked on past
projects is the justification for this.
>Hopefully he fired your ass right on outta there. I would have.
You probably would. Then you'd be left holding a site with inaccessible
text sizing. Would that benefit you?
>You should quit if they ever ask you to make a purple, spinny-thing.
Depends on why they want it. If it's for purplespinners.com, then it
might be just what they want. I've put background music on sites before
now, because some sites (for musicians) can actually benefit from it.
But it's one of the worst thingsyou can do to most sites and I'd
usuaally be vehemently against it.
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Do whales have krillfiles ?
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