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Re: Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?

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Post by webmaven »

jcbrand wrote: post #80
tluyben2 wrote: post #31

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Wow that brings back memories. Is that still used/supported?

Yes, the Plone CMS still runs on Zope2. https://plone.com The ZODB (Zope Object Database) is also still going strong: http://www.zodb.org

Worth noting here for folks that aren't familiar with Plone that compared to more popular CMS systems like Drupal, Joomla, or Wordpress, Plone's security record is rock solid (in fact, the best security record of any popular Open Source CMS) and is an excellent choice for Intranets and Extranets.

ZODB is also the underlying technology of the recently launched ZeroDB, an e2e encrypted NoSQL DB: https://opensource.zerodb.com/

Re: Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?

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Post by NumberCruncher »

English and German. I need the former to read documentations for being up to date and the latter to communicate with people who can pay me a decent salary. I can pick up any programming language I need but a third foreign language? At my age it could be pretty hard and time consuming.

Re: Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?

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Post by jsingleton »

otakucode wrote: post #309
jsingleton wrote: post #192

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C# and .NET Core are really nice to work with but there is still quite a bit of change going on with .NET Core. Hopefully it will bed down a bit after 1.1. C# is a great language if you use the features well. Async/await and ThingOf etc. I know .NET has a bit of a bad reputation in some parts of the tech community but it's a great skill to have for stable job prospects. It doesn't matter if it's not cool. :) Disclaim…

What's your book? I used C# exclusively for personal projects on Windows maybe 6-7 years ago, then switched to Python and Linux. I'm now considering coming back to C# and seeing what's going on on that side of things since they've opened up. I've even been considering switching my main machine to Windows with Linux in a VM instead of the other way around like I've had it for the past years.

ASP.NET Core 1.0 High Performance: https://unop.uk/book

Re: Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?

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Post by questionr »

votr wrote: post #136
slinger wrote: post #125

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Awesome story! I'm interested in hear more about the time you spent learning non-programming fundamentals. Would you care to elaborate?

I'd say non-programming fundamentals took about two months at about 4-6 hours a day, with the majority of that dedicated to algorithms and data structures. I took these two OCW courses: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... And worked my way through these two books: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena...…

just to confirm, you completed BOTH MIT algorithm courses and BOTH algorithm books, in the span of 2-months, including completing all the exercises/algorithms?

that seems like an incredibly short amount of time given the content. But if true, congrats! and please let me know your secret!

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