KakodaimonosCode fondlerHelping the 1% get richerRegistered Userregular
I finally got some time to dig through our python utility scripts. Managed to delete about 4000 lines of code overall. Let's just say our junior script devs really like CTRL-C and CTRL-V.
I'd swear that someone here has worked on a filesystem kernel driver before.
Someone like.... Phyphor?
I think?
Well, there was that time I had to do one for a project in my intro operating systems class... and it didn't work.... and that was 10 years ago.... so yeah Phyphor.
What's a good language for someone with zero programming experience to try and learn, to pad their resume as a General Technology Person (ie. someone with a lot of experience working with IT, but no formal certifications) ? Is there such a thing?
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mightyjongyoSour CrrmEast Bay, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
Bash and Python? They have a lot of utility in Linux IT environments.
C/C++ are far too unforgiving for a beginner unless that's going to be a career path. PHP is mostly web tech. Ruby is weird, and only hipsters like it, sorry Echo. VB is terrible and should be avoided, and if you're partaking in VB.NET you might as well just learn C# anyways. Java is terrible, old, and terrible. It's so bad, seriously, just... don't.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
What's a good language for someone with zero programming experience to try and learn, to pad their resume as a General Technology Person (ie. someone with a lot of experience working with IT, but no formal certifications) ? Is there such a thing?
Python. 95% of when you want a bash script, you actually should write a Python script and skip the "I should've used Python" phase.
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KakodaimonosCode fondlerHelping the 1% get richerRegistered Userregular
Python and SQL. Know a little bit of both and you can solve a lot of problems.
So I get back home with my newborn and find out that the senior developer at our place is leaving in two weeks. He was also the lead back end developer. That's apparently my job now since I was the other back end guy.
So I get back home with my newborn and find out that the senior developer at our place is leaving in two weeks. He was also the lead back end developer. That's apparently my job now since I was the other back end guy.
Please stop trying to reinvent the UI - you're doing a bloody poor job of it.
For example, when I "undock" a panel/window, I don't want the top of the panel to be off the screen so that I cannot drag it down.
Normally, this is not a problem, because we can do ye olde "Press Alt, navigate to Move", but it seems that you've disallowed that, so no go.
The other happy trick is to use Windows+Left/Right/Up to move it to other screen positions, which I see you've somehow prevented with your custom window.
So I have to restart your app, hoping that you've also been negligent in saving window positions, and that the panel has reset to a sensible place so that I can actually drag it around.
Just use the default UI - there's no need to reinvent every bloody wheel.
P.S. Your reinvented Open File dialogue box is pretty stupid as well.
Is there a good place for me to upload my photo for me to share with you guys that isn't completely public? I like using imgur for it but doesn't it show the latest uploaded images? I'd rather not have it show up on the front page of their site.
Better or worse than ones which seems to be stuck in the Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 mode?
Worse.
I'm also not quite sure how they've defeated Window's UI manager, but dragging the window around doesn't show a preview or any indication of where the final window is going to be placed.
I think even in Windows 3.1/95, if you dragged the window around, you'll get a rectangular outline showing where it'll end up? Can't remember where it made the transition (XP, I suspect? Or 2000?) where dragging the window actually dragged the window around, but this reinvented windowing system gives zero feedback.
And because I can't use Windows-Left/Right to shuffle them to halves of my screen, I'm doing some blind guesswork.
It's just very frustrating. I mean, use the default UI, gain all the benefits that Windows (or whatever Linux WM you've got) offers you. Seriously.
Is there a good place for me to upload my photo for me to share with you guys that isn't completely public? I like using imgur for it but doesn't it show the latest uploaded images? I'd rather not have it show up on the front page of their site.
Hmmmmm
Can't you just upload the image straight to the PA forums itself?
Better or worse than ones which seems to be stuck in the Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 mode?
Worse.
I'm also not quite sure how they've defeated Window's UI manager, but dragging the window around doesn't show a preview or any indication of where the final window is going to be placed.
I think even in Windows 3.1/95, if you dragged the window around, you'll get a rectangular outline showing where it'll end up? Can't remember where it made the transition (XP, I suspect? Or 2000?) where dragging the window actually dragged the window around, but this reinvented windowing system gives zero feedback.
And because I can't use Windows-Left/Right to shuffle them to halves of my screen, I'm doing some blind guesswork.
It's just very frustrating. I mean, use the default UI, gain all the benefits that Windows (or whatever Linux WM you've got) offers you. Seriously.
Is there a good place for me to upload my photo for me to share with you guys that isn't completely public? I like using imgur for it but doesn't it show the latest uploaded images? I'd rather not have it show up on the front page of their site.
Hmmmmm
Can't you just upload the image straight to the PA forums itself?
1) you are correct, even in 95 you got that outline of a window
2) It kind of sounds like their underpinning for the window was like some of those weirdo old school EXE programs that look more like splash screens than actual windows... if you've ever used one of those old school hacker keygens *cough* you know what I'm talking about. And maybe they put their whole program in one of those? Because they don't obey conventional window laws
What? How did they do that? That must have taken a lot of work...
It's probably very simple - they just use a WS_POPUP style. That disables borders and traditional dragging. You can remove it from the start menu with another style option (one of the MDI ones maybe?). They then reimplement the windowing behaviour when you click on the top X pixels of their window
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I'm not sure of all the details of my NDA, so I'm sorry for being purposefully (and possibly too) vague.
I mean, still serious, but not like years-worth of doing things
Someone like.... Phyphor?
I think?
:rotate:
Well, there was that time I had to do one for a project in my intro operating systems class... and it didn't work.... and that was 10 years ago.... so yeah Phyphor.
Not kernel (though I've thought about it!). I even posted it here! But I'm crazy like that anyway
And yes, hence why incredulous. Decidedly non-trivial.
Heartily recommend testing in a disposable VM for when your program happily starts overwriting whatever happens to be sitting at memory address zero.
What's a good language for someone with zero programming experience to try and learn, to pad their resume as a General Technology Person (ie. someone with a lot of experience working with IT, but no formal certifications) ? Is there such a thing?
I would err on the side of C#.
C/C++ are far too unforgiving for a beginner unless that's going to be a career path. PHP is mostly web tech. Ruby is weird, and only hipsters like it, sorry Echo. VB is terrible and should be avoided, and if you're partaking in VB.NET you might as well just learn C# anyways. Java is terrible, old, and terrible. It's so bad, seriously, just... don't.
Python. 95% of when you want a bash script, you actually should write a Python script and skip the "I should've used Python" phase.
It's ah... It's frightening.
So, new son and a promotion?
Dayum honky, you got yourself a good deal!
Can I rub your head for luck?
Yeah I suspect it's more the second one than the first.
Please stop trying to reinvent the UI - you're doing a bloody poor job of it.
For example, when I "undock" a panel/window, I don't want the top of the panel to be off the screen so that I cannot drag it down.
Normally, this is not a problem, because we can do ye olde "Press Alt, navigate to Move", but it seems that you've disallowed that, so no go.
The other happy trick is to use Windows+Left/Right/Up to move it to other screen positions, which I see you've somehow prevented with your custom window.
So I have to restart your app, hoping that you've also been negligent in saving window positions, and that the panel has reset to a sensible place so that I can actually drag it around.
Just use the default UI - there's no need to reinvent every bloody wheel.
P.S. Your reinvented Open File dialogue box is pretty stupid as well.
I doubt we're going to generate enough bandwidth for that.
Other than that, dropbox.
God, I hate that so much.
Worse.
I'm also not quite sure how they've defeated Window's UI manager, but dragging the window around doesn't show a preview or any indication of where the final window is going to be placed.
I think even in Windows 3.1/95, if you dragged the window around, you'll get a rectangular outline showing where it'll end up? Can't remember where it made the transition (XP, I suspect? Or 2000?) where dragging the window actually dragged the window around, but this reinvented windowing system gives zero feedback.
And because I can't use Windows-Left/Right to shuffle them to halves of my screen, I'm doing some blind guesswork.
It's just very frustrating. I mean, use the default UI, gain all the benefits that Windows (or whatever Linux WM you've got) offers you. Seriously.
Hmmmmm
Can't you just upload the image straight to the PA forums itself?
I don't knooowwww
Oh god
They don't appear on the Windows taskbar.
I've maximised a few windows over it already.
Am I seriously going to have to minimise stuff just to get back to those panels?
*sob*
UI/UX designers, I beseech thee - HELP THIS APP BECOME BETTER
Edit: *phew* Not so bad, just clicked on the parent window and it popped up
1) you are correct, even in 95 you got that outline of a window
2) It kind of sounds like their underpinning for the window was like some of those weirdo old school EXE programs that look more like splash screens than actual windows... if you've ever used one of those old school hacker keygens *cough* you know what I'm talking about. And maybe they put their whole program in one of those? Because they don't obey conventional window laws
Nice!
He's going to mow your lawns so well when he grows up.
Edit: No! No BOTP for that post! I forbid it
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It's probably very simple - they just use a WS_POPUP style. That disables borders and traditional dragging. You can remove it from the start menu with another style option (one of the MDI ones maybe?). They then reimplement the windowing behaviour when you click on the top X pixels of their window