Posts made by flaxking

Publishing your own project or contributing to an open source project is often the path to meeting those goals. I've mostly just seen internships as parts of training programs you pay for.

@NetworkNerd said in Push and Pull – Using VS Code with Azure Repos:

@flaxking said in Push and Pull – Using VS Code with Azure Repos:

I've been pretty satisfied with Azure DevOps so far, but calling it 'Azure' seems to be a marketing move and ends up being a misnomer.

I love the fact that Azure can advertise giving customers DevOps for free.

Haha, MS clients can now say their company has adopted DevOps.

Reminds me of them commandeering Office and SQL.

I've been pretty satisfied with Azure DevOps so far, but calling it 'Azure' seems to be a marketing move and ends up being a misnomer.

@JaredBusch said in Certifications:

@scottalanmiller said in Certifications:

@flaxking said in Certifications:

MS certs can definitely give you an edge at companies that are MS Partners, since they need to meet certain requirements

I assume that that is going away given that the certs themselves are going away.

And the MS Partner track has long had the cloud/azureO365 on the list.

As its own competency. Now that other exams are retiring they'll be needed for other competencies.

@scottalanmiller said in Certifications:

@flaxking said in Certifications:

MS certs can definitely give you an edge at companies that are MS Partners, since they need to meet certain requirements

I assume that that is going away given that the certs themselves are going away.

It seems that the plan was that by June 30, 2021 MS Partners would have to have Microsoft 365 certifications or Azure certifications to meet the requirements instead.

However, it sounds like they're already giving a free pass to partners that are not meeting the current requirements https://blogs.partner.microsoft.com/mpn/responding-to-covid-19-microsoft-partner-network/

If they continue with the June 2021 plan, Microsoft 365 and Azure certifications may be in high demand in that area of the market.

MS certs can definitely give you an edge at companies that are MS Partners, since they need to meet certain requirements

We've got a small tech chat group going on in slack
https://join.slack.com/t/4c571814-1ed3-49ec-9a/shared_invite/zt-dg0c63uf-0~wqM6wK64Go9SGzShYAzA

@zenbu said in Setting up Nginx on CentOS 7 as a reverse proxy:

@JaredBusch I setup a reverse proxy with nginx for ScreenConnect, but the relay port isn't working. Can you provide your setup for how your relay is setup? Does it require two different IPs?

That's not HTTP traffic. You would have to set Nginx up for TCP/UDP load balancing

Yes, email providers will send you reports when they get emails from your domain.

You do not necessarily have to ever go from quarantine to reject, some mail providers, like O365, treat them the same. But you would want to wait for reports to come in to see if there might be stuff that might be failing the the business would want to go through.

Now that most email clients are pretty good at not just displaying the FROM field, it's probably not as important, but I still believe it is my duty to do everything I can to combat against the spoofing of my domain name.

Python was the first language I learned. But these days I don't often get to use it. Would I have been further ahead in my career today if I had chosen one of the languages I use now as my first language? No, it just doesn't work that way. The knowledge is culmalative. Experience with a variety of things becomes an asset, even if you don't actually use that tool.

@Julien said in Beginner, where to start?:

Let's use an exemple, I learned some blacksmith skills with my grandfather when I was young, it was clear that to build a knife you need your set of tools and practice. I didn't have to choose between 10 type of hammers, 20 type of stoves...

That's the case when you go to university or take a course, they limit the exposure to the tools they decide to train you on. They've already chosen the stoves and hammers, but what they chose doesn't always represent what other shops are using.

But the knowledge you learn is culmalative. Pretty much all of what you learn on one stove will help you on the next different stove .

@Julien said in Beginner, where to start?:

Unless I'm saying something stupid, isn't better to learn and master very few technologies instead of learning a little bit of everything?

In general, not necessarily, it depends on your role. When starting learning something, yes it would make sense to have the ability to actually do something. But you don't need to master it.

@Julien said in Beginner, where to start?:

• Python is easy to learn but is mainly used for script, data and non complex system

Python is pretty much used everywhere where there is not a concern with having to tweak for performance with the underlying system.

Lol, I missed the AI part. I thought, "he has an A. but no B."

I haven't done anything with robotics, but I believe the languages you would be looking at are Python and C++.

Python is known as a great first language for beginners, and is very popular in pretty much all programming fields right now, so I'd start there.

There's tons are good free resources out there, I'll post a link to one at the bottom. My recommendation is to go far enough to get a bit comfortable with Python, and then dive into robotics, it sounds like the robotics part is what will drive your motivation.

So do some research to find out a good Python robotics stack for beginners, and then purchase what you need after you at least get some Python experience.

And btw, I like to use Visual Studio Code with Python, Microsoft has a good document for how to set it up. I originally learned Python without using any IDE-like capabilities... but my opinion now is you might as well use IDE from the start.

https://docs.python-guide.org/

@scottalanmiller said in Best way for teenager to learn to develop a game:

Check out RPGMaker, if he likes 2D classic RPGs. Like Final Fantasy. Good "starter kit" and makes good games. Thousands of games on Steam made with that.

You can do a lot of dicking around on RPGMaker without learning actual skills, at least that was my experience as a youngster.

Does he like action aventure RPGs? https://www.solarus-games.org

First you look at official solutions for the application that uses that document. Then you look at third party solutions that will work for the document type (like Perforce), then you look at IT workarounds (like RDS)

I've been on a couple different remote teams in my career, each with a different expectation for collaboration.

A continuous chat group can be helpful depending on the culture. Sometimes all it takes is for your manager to be in the chat and then it's a dead chat.

Weekly v.s. daily stand-ups: I definitely prefer daily. A week can be a long time.

What I think is most effective for building a virtual team together is having different people pairing off to help another or to tackle a task together while on a voice call/screen sharing. Chat doesn't always cut it when you're working, and you might have a very different experience with a co-worker when you're on a voice call than when communicating through chat or email.