[Info-vax] VMS Developer Job

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-05-10, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> Around here it seems to be all media/web design type companies who
>> have open IT positions. :-(
>> 
>> I don't know what it's like in other countries, but it's also interesting
>> the job adverts are (mostly) all about {x} years in a list of frameworks
>> of the year with little emphasis apparently placed on knowing the core
>> computer science fundamentals instead (and the transferable and universal
>> skills which come with that core knowledge).
>> 
>
> It was once declared that I could not be much of a programmer if I 
> didn't know and use PHP ....
>
>:-)

Unfortunately, things have now moved on. :-)

These days, it's not enough to know the latest languages; for many
job openings, you now have to know the latest frameworks written in
those languages and to have {x} amount of experience in those
frameworks as well.

And BTW, those frameworks are no magic bullet; you still get silly
bugs in them. Here's one I found in the Firefox SDK when I decided
to update my target device and the machine I use for Firefox
development to the latest Firefox version (now Firefox Android
finally has the same download manager as the current desktop Firefox
versions):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1156130

Someone appears to have changed the SDK and outright broken some
basic SDK functionality for the Android version of Firefox.

Simon.

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