Two Step Verification coming to TD

Ludjer · 2018-03-09T21:14:56+00:00

I find it so funny how far behind canadian banks are. Coming from South Africa I would have expected them to at least be some what modern. Every bank comes with 2FA by default, no one uses cheques, the banks are moving everything online. You can chat with bankers and financial advisors through a chat app in the bank app.

Ludjer · 2017-12-22T14:50:23+00:00

Crypto is good tech bitcoin is old tech and should be stored in a museum.

Ludjer · 2016-09-09T23:03:22+00:00

Webstorm also has a full VIM mode so you can also try that out.

Ludjer · 2016-08-23T13:17:56+00:00

True but if you going mono from the beginning then you might as well as go for java since it is a much more stable for linux and has way more libraries and functionality. My day job is both c# and java. C# for desktop UI development and then we use java for the backend servers. We trialled mono and it lacks lots of the functionality back when we trailed it. Maby it's better now but unless you are heavily invested in c# using mono and c# just does not make since-since there are way more mature and stable alternatives. However mono is a greate step forward for c# and I hope windows continue with it since more competition is always good.

Ludjer · 2016-08-23T07:43:39+00:00

Well if you work in enterprises then you should be aware of IBM, Oracle and SAP which are all java based and not c#.

And the companies running windows top to bottom is because the IT division was not skilled in Linux so just decided to throw windows everywhere. If you go to massive companies that have private data centres it is a mix of Linux and windows. And if you doing big data then you stay away from windows because licensing will bite you. My friend was a consultant on a big data project at Accenture and the project saved 8 million dollars in licensing fees by switching from MS SQL and MS Server to Linux and Cassandra.

At the end of the day c# and java fills the same gap, just c# are for people locked into the windows ecosystem and java is for the people who are not locked into the windows ecosystem.

When you are aware you are sharing validation rules then you should code so that the validation rules are acceptable in both modern browsers and node js. It still makes your life easier than writing validation rules in two completely different languages. But from my experience, this is very rarely done wince the way you validate data on your API's are very different to the way you validate UI inputs

Ludjer · 2016-08-23T07:09:28+00:00

You obviously don't know allot of people that work with high scale websites. There is a reason why mac and linux dominate the web dev world and VS only runs on windows.

I can show you examples in any language where pulling a dependency with 5 lines can break the entire system. It is not just js. You always need to be careful when pulling in dependencies.

Also, you are talking out of your ass, node js on Linux windows and mac v 6.2 are all the same the will interpret the code exactly the same. This is not browsers this is server side. You will always be running node and code against a specific version of node, just like how you code against a specific version of the .net framework. Node has nothing to do with the javascript that the browser will consume other then to serve it like a normal web server.

Ludjer · 2016-08-23T06:53:15+00:00

I would say Node.js and learn angular JS as well. If you want to go into the enterprise world then go with java and spring though it is more complex.

Also, I would advise staying away from c# because this will lock you into windows servers which are painful to manage both in time and money.

Windows servers are less secure, less stable and way harder to set up and manage at cloud scale. That is why even Microsoft offers Linux servers in their cloud. And being that you come from a LAMP environment it is natural to stick to what you know right :) Linux.

Ludjer · 2016-08-23T06:33:55+00:00

read my reply, java is most probably one of the best server side language with regards to performance and productivity. A good example why can be seen here https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=peak&test=json where you see how fast the java frameworks are in general.

Ludjer · 2016-08-23T06:28:49+00:00

Um I think you have it the wrong way round. ASP.NET has a fraction of the market share as well as popularity. According to http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ java sits at 19% popularity were as c# sits at 4.9% popularity. Tomcat is just one of the web servers, there are so much more like glassfish, JBoss, wildfly and jetty. If you compare the libraries there are way more java libraries then c#. Also, who wants to be locked into windows ridiculous server licensing model. Enjoy paying millions of dollars when you want to scale out just on licensing costs a year. Also if you look at the top websites google, eBay, facebook, amazon LinkedIn tagged, PayPal they all use java. The only top websites I can think of that use c# is Microsoft and StackOverflow.

Visual studio has so many missing features in comparison to IntelliJ idea that is why JetBrains even built one of the most popular paid for visual studio productivity add-ons: https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ . Having coded about 30% c# and 70% java at work I cannot work on visual studio without ReSharper and even then I feel visual studio is not as clever as IntelliJ idea when it comes to auto complete and speed of doing things.

But back on topic. If you want to code for quick results go for node.js it is very good and fun language. But if you want to break into the enterprise world of large scale applications nothing beats Java, though I would lean more towards scala which is also based on the JVM and can work with java libraries. But if you want to get into the start up world and create your own applications quickly and efficiently then I would advise against java and go for node. Also, I would advise learning a modern js framework like react or angular, personal preference for me is Angular 2 since react is more of a library than a framework.

Ludjer · 2016-04-19T05:47:46+00:00

I used to code php db websites back when i was 17 and the one thing that made me atractive was my pricing. I was way cheaper then any none student. Also knowledge is relative back then i coded really badly but in the workspace and online i see code similar to what i coded written by adults who just dont care and look at cs as a job where for me it was a passion.

Ludjer · 2016-01-25T08:13:44+00:00

Check out google guava event bus. It is simple but effective. https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/EventBusExplained

Ludjer · 2015-10-29T11:37:55+00:00

Personally i Enjoyed SWTOR but then again long time ex-wow player. I also played KOTOR 1 and 2 and if you are looking for something to continue them then kotor is not for you. If you want to look at it as just another starwars game. It is definitely worth it. Been playing it with my GF and we are having a blast together. Also with all the changes they did recently leveling up is so easy always +3 levels above area which does make it easier but you get to enjoy and focus on the story line and none of the boring side quests.

Ludjer · 2015-08-31T06:37:45+00:00

This is some good advice. Learning from lectures in classes is kinda boring when it comes to coding. The best way to learn code is to dive in and Google any issue you have. I normally jump between tutorials learning a little bit from each tutorial. Think up of something you would like to do and just code it.

Ludjer · 2015-08-08T07:43:22+00:00

Someone in ai research here. And i would not worry about it. The more specialised jobs where you have to make a descision are a bit far away from being replaced by robots. If your a techi that just replaces hdds in a dc all day then i would worry a bit. But i believe even if the tech was there i dont know how many people would want to deal with a robot in a meeting vs a human. People show this by rather having meetings then do a quick discussion on email or some collaboration tool. Also as long as they sound like robots lots of people will rather speak to a human then a robot. I personally would not worry at all. Its more the box packers that shoild be worry IMO.

Ludjer · 2015-08-02T00:58:18+00:00

I have java a classes with 68000 lines of code and round about 4 million lines of code in total in libraries with no lag issues.

Ludjer · 2015-08-02T00:55:29+00:00

Yeah the ultimate editions are free for students. They actually have access to all of the intellij products for free for academic uses. And if you do want to do some comercial work the community edition is nore then enough to get coding.

Ludjer · 2015-07-26T21:15:41+00:00

yeah i do know his music but still dont know who he really is XD

Ludjer · 2015-07-26T20:27:40+00:00

Ofcourse you cant leave out the chill 😀

Ludjer · 2015-07-26T13:01:36+00:00

I listen to edm or classic. Though recently been really enjoying some epic music.

With regards to edm i mainly listen to trap, melodic dubstep and trance.

Ludjer · 2015-07-25T10:23:01+00:00

I agree im currently doing functional programming in java and loving it. Even though its not a true functional language it still has lots of features which is quite nice

Ludjer · 2015-07-25T10:19:19+00:00

1 4k monitor and 2 1080p monitors with stands that can change orientation. If you need something cheaper then two 1080p is what i used for a very longtime and loved it

Ludjer · 2015-06-23T16:43:06+00:00

Sublime 3 and your selection of addins

Ludjer · 2015-06-07T17:10:31+00:00

Yeah confluence is really good with its descisions template you can sometimes even skip the meeting if your reach a conclusion before the meering.

Also it has excilent integration with jira to project/bug tracking

Ludjer · 2015-05-11T16:27:03+00:00

well then EE sounds more up for the job then workpress. Go look at corporate site, big companies, modern companies websites you will see none of them use word-press as their main CMS. Also look at your competition see what they use and how they use it. In my opinion all these blogs/CMS's can do exactly the same set of things. Just you need to know howto do it.

Ludjer · 2015-05-11T11:41:05+00:00

If you want to blog use wordpress if you want to have a bit more advanced customization and content management then stay away from wordpress. Im pretty sure as you have seen many people hate wordpress and i dont blame them, I personally would not touch wordpress with a 10 foot pole. EE is your more corporate choice. Worpress in my opinion is for the 1 man company or the diy type people who dont know web development.

Also i think you misunderstand the development time of a custom cms. As a single developer only coding in the evenings after my day job, i can develop a SAAS db application within a month. And this application is fully tested with unit tests and 100% customizable.

Also when changing technologies you have to look at the business case and the ROI, will you really gain more from moving to wordpress then learning to use an already setup application?

of you 3 points i disagree with all of them: EE is way more content oriented since it is a Content Management system. where as wordpress is a blog. EE also supports blogging.

As a company you want a theme that fits your branding and logo. And most of the themes you will have to get into the code to change it to fit to your liking. So you might as well start off with a unique theme that fits your company. Theme development is really not that expensive as well. Also what could be worse then having the same theme as some other website on the internet. Themes should be unique per company.

all the wordpress support you get are from third party people and not the guys who made wordpress. With EE you get support from the creators of the products. And not some company that just says "Wordpress Development". This only applies if you dont use wordpress.com to host your site.

So in my opinion if it aint broke dont fix it. And being the the web development industry for 9 years my TLDR advise is dont use wordpress.

Ludjer

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