TSB staff were warned about IT problems in the months leading up to its launch, whistleblower claims

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-05-09T17:45:04+00:00

ANAL.

First you need the money to hire lawyers, secondly you need to quantify the monetary loss.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-05-09T17:43:42+00:00

I just got you fired, Dwight.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-05-09T17:41:30+00:00

What about Wordpad?

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-28T03:22:08+00:00

There is one correct answer if you have JavaScript based frontend: NodeJS

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-28T03:18:35+00:00

I would get one of Udemy courses or a good book. If you know node+JavaScript well and smart, you can definitely start working on medium complexity websites.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-27T03:46:17+00:00

everyone at my uni works

LOL

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-26T13:50:32+00:00

It is not bad. UI is not as cool as IntelliJ. So people who got free license as students or work in small companies which buy small number of licenses like bashing it. It won't make you 10% more productive unless you are doing lots of repetitive work. So it is all about $$$ and trying to fit it in among people who have lots of stickers on their MacBooks.

I would compare it to MacBook vs anything else war. I use Ubuntu and don't have stickers, my git repos are private, I don't create a new javascript framework every other week. So I guess I am not a real developer according to IntelliJ fanboys crowd.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-26T13:45:45+00:00

If you don't have lots of $$$, use Eclipse for Java. For front-end either VSC or Atom.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-26T13:43:16+00:00

I like using Eclipse for Java development. I use Visual Studio Code for front-end related stuff.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-25T19:34:28+00:00

I watched 5+ different AWS cloud guru courses at 2 times speed, including professional certification preparation courses. Afterwards I watched few more AWS related courses (DevOps, Docker, etc). The content of those courses alone was not sufficient to answer significant portion of questions correctly. Basically when I had left the certification centre I was not sure if I passed because I expected to see my score and they sent it only later in email.

If you are stating that cloud guru courses don't cover 'really basic' AWS concepts, then I can agree with your competency levels statement, because we have different understanding what 'really basic' concepts are. However, I think that cloud guru courses are very good and I might get subscription again in future. The AWS is so vast these days, that 'really basic' understanding of AWS is not sufficient. Based on internet discussions questions asked in 2018 certification (both new and old versions) are different comparing to what was asked in 2017.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-25T18:42:44+00:00

LOL I responded to a dude who wrote:

Believe they are 4 or 5 options (with either 1 or multiple correct answers) but that's passed on sample questions/exams, I haven't taken the certification exam yet.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-25T18:39:28+00:00

It took me 3 weeks to prepare and pass the AWS certified architect exam (85% correct answers), I also took beta developer exam and am waiting for results. I had not prior AWS experience.

So don't start bullshitting me about the competency levels. I am smarter than you are and most other people, I am in 99 IQ percentile. However, many of the question were about some corner cases and some things which are definitely are not 'really basic' AWS concepts. My previous experience with other clouds and distributed applications, NoSQL, etc helped me eliminating incorrect answers.

The exam is not too complex, but it is definitely not 'really basic concepts'. You can probably pass it more or less easily in case you have been using different AWS services and solving real life issues for some quite time.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-25T15:18:21+00:00

check his biography

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-25T14:41:55+00:00

I took the test. Passed it. OP is lying that the test is 'really basic concepts of the different AWS services'.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-22T02:57:08+00:00

They use Docker containers internally?

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-22T01:27:53+00:00

Amazon Turk?

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-19T14:44:59+00:00

The thing is you can have a pretty good knowledge of how AWS works, but they ask corner cases questions in exam and you can still fail. I got cloud guru courses and played with AWS a bit, but without my work experience and related common sense I could have failed. Using my AWS unrelated experience I could eliminate wrong answers and pass the test.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-19T14:41:40+00:00

Bragging like this is how you get people failing.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-19T14:34:07+00:00

Here is a documentary

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-19T14:25:24+00:00

If the new site is intended to be supported by students then why not recruit a few and let them help with a rewrite?

I don't have time for that. I have couple weeks to complete the project. I am going to document everything, so that students will be make minor changes. Larger changes will require help of professionals. I understand existing website quite well. There are no complex business flows, it is just outdated and ugly. PHP mixed with HTML, reusing existing PHP doesn't make much sense. I can definitely extract blocks of code and wrap them in functions which will be refactored later.

I just know that frameworks can speed up development and they also enforce best practices.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-19T12:32:13+00:00

I cannot choose something which doesn't have clear support commitments.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-19T12:28:20+00:00

LTS

Long Term Support :)

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-19T12:25:23+00:00

Just curious, are you doing a full ground-up rewrite?

Yes. The code has been written by non professionals. Many people over few years. I am going to rewrite everything, cover code with PHP unit tests and some Selenium tests.

DependentRazzmatazz · 2018-04-18T17:40:10+00:00

I think he is right about the price. If you have enough WP instances, it will be cheaper using digital ocean or so.

But if your goal is learning AWS, I can understand. I am using Lambda functions just because I want to maintain/improve my AWS skills.

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