rlawson

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   by rlawson 15y ago

   no, I'm in the high tech mecca of South Carolina. New York is frightening to us southerners.
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   by rlawson 15y ago

   yeah you are right, I learned servlets / jsps from Marty Hall's book and then just progressed from there. For smaller projects I usually start with Tomcat + Stripes + iBatis Sql Maps in order to minimize the learning curve. But no self resp
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   by rlawson 15y ago

   Sure. First I like Java the language. I dislike Java the enterprise platform. I don't like XML as another programming language, I don't like having to fire up a giant container to test a piece of code (looking at you weblogic). Now things a
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   by rlawson 15y ago

   good point. Unfortunately, I have ended up working on big apps that were written early 2000's during the big Java migration which means Jsp/Struts 1/EJB 1&2. The apps tended to be developed under a short timeline by a lot of developers
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   by rlawson 15y ago

   this is a good insight, thank you
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   by rlawson 15y ago

   Good point, I like the idea that the device limitations enforce a certain simplicity on your design
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   by rlawson 15y ago

   Take some advice from an old guy who has been a developer and a manager 1 - don't go around the chain of command 2 - volunteer for the hardest problem facing the dev team and solve it 3 - if they don't keep you challenged then find another
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   Ask HN: Enterprise Java guy needs advice on what to transition to

   40 points by rlawson 15y ago|55 comments