At the time, I had used/tried out the following OSes
- BeOS 4.5 (including some beta versions)
- BeOS 5 (including some beta versions)
- Windows NT 4.0
- OS2/Warp
- Windows 95 (and it's service releases) (including beta versions)
- Windows 98 (and it's service releases) (including beta versions)
- PC-DOS
- MS-DOS with DosShell
- MS-DOS with Windows 3.11
- Whatever old version of MacOS was on the school computers
- Slackware
(might have some dates wrong)
I was also on mIRC and downloading from newsgroups regularly.
I think many ISP's would give you guides about using email/newsgroups back then as those services were considered required for an ISP. TUCOWS was super popular for this newfangled WinSOCK software (TUCOWS stands for The Ultimate Collection Of WinSOCK Software). I remember testing how fast the first consumer cable internet connections were by downloading from them.
You are right for most people that stuff was probably obscure.
At that time you'd have been mercilessly about mIRC. It's a client program, and you'd be on IRCnet, EFnet or QuakeNet, and the the last one would earn you endless disrespect from IRCnet veterans.
Name: Jonathan Dell
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Remote: Not preferred but open to consider
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: PHP, Go, MySQL, React, Linux, Javascript
Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/jon-dell
Email: jldell@gmail.com
I have been a Technical Team Lead for the last 7+ years. I am looking for a similar role. I have mainly been focused on full stack/devops web, but have worked on a few iOS apps and managed the Unreal/Unity VR team at my previous employer.
This seems pretty straight forward, reject the PR's with detailed responses until they are of acceptable quality. Doing so might slow momentum with the project in the short term but should overall make everything faster. Just be clear about WHY you are rejecting the PR's and the quality you expect.
I have ~13 years of experience in web development
and ~7 in Managing and Mentoring teams of developers (2-6 devs)
I am hoping to be hired somewhere I can continue to lead and mentor.
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
* React (6 Years experience)
* MySQL
* PHP
* Modern Javascript (ES6+)
* General Fullstack Web Tech (dns, http(s), html, css, apache+caddy config, bash, jwt, openidconnect, etc..)
* Some Go
* Lots more but too many to list.
Résumé/CV: www.linkedin.com/in/jon-dell
Email: jldell@gmail.com
I have ~13 years of experience in web development
and ~7 in Managing and Mentoring teams of developers (2-6 devs)
I am hoping to be hired somewhere I can continue to lead and mentor.
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
* React (6 Years experience)
* MySQL
* PHP
* Modern Javascript (ES6+)
* General Fullstack Web Tech (dns, http(s), html, css, apache+caddy config, bash, jwt, openidconnect, etc..)
* Some Go
* Lots more but too many to list.
Résumé/CV: www.linkedin.com/in/jon-dell
Email: jldell@gmail.com
ICOM Productions | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Full-Time | Web Software Developer | ONSITE | https://www.icomproductions.ca/
About Us
ICOM is an award-winning eLearning company. Our team is made up of more than 50 learning specialists, including instructional designers, project managers, writers, graphic designers, and software programmers.
At ICOM, it's our mission to challenge and inspire the world to learn differently. Over our 22-year history, we’ve developed hundreds of online education programs for some of Canada’s biggest and best-known companies. From modifying behaviours to driving business objectives, ICOM creates engaging eLearning programs that help produce real on-the-job results.
Our office is located on Stephen Avenue in the heart of downtown Calgary, close to public transportation and loads of attractions.
About The Position
As a software developer at ICOM, you will collaborate with our team of technical wizards to produce innovative solutions using the latest web technologies. Have a new technology you’ve been dying to use? We are open to trying new things, but be prepared to teach your fellow developers all about it!
Our ideal candidate has graduated with a degree in Computer Science within the last few years and is interested in cutting-edge web application development. They are able to motivate themselves in a flexible environment. They can solve problems both individually and collaboratively, while not being afraid to ask for help when the need it or take criticism of their code. They are familiar with at least one C-style language, such as PHP, Java, C, C#, JavaScript, or the Go programming language. We strive for knowledge of the full stack, so BASH command line experience will be very helpful.
Here are some of the technologies that we are currently using:
* Git/GitLab
* MySQL/Aurora
* CentOS/RHEL/Amazon Linux
* HTML & CSS/LESS
* JS
* ES6 + JSX using Babel
* React
* Node.js & npm/yarn
* PHP(5.3 & 7.1)
We don’t expect you to have had real-world experience using all of these technologies. ICOM is a learning company, and that applies to our employees as much as it applies to our clients. If any of this appeals to you, apply now!
Whenever I interview someone I explain what Full Stack means to me.
As a small team we have to support the full stack of development.
That means
* provisioning and updating servers
* installing and configuring software on those servers
* keeping server system software up to date (Apache/MySql/Php/etc)
* maintaining and developing custom frameworks
* writing all the admin tooling for getting sites up and running and configured
* working in our backends including writing queries
* designing databases and migrations
* maintaining deployment of new code and version control
* setting up build systems for our apps
* designing frontend systems (how they use api's, deployment of them, stores, etc..)
* writing components and styling them
and that is just the web stuff. Not including the VR/AR/App stuff we get tasked with building.
While I am a Senior/Team Lead and don't expect people to be experts in all of that stuff, debugging requires at least being willing to take on any of that.
The author seems to think that just frontend development requires all your mental capacity. I really don't want this to come off as me being arrogant but feel very confident in my skills in everything he described AND I do all of the above web stuff and more. I also manage a team and meetings and timelines and quotes and resourcing and sales questions etc... It's not that hard. And I know I am not a 10x or 100x dev (maybe 2-3x)
ICOM is an award-winning eLearning company. Our team is made up of more than 50 learning specialists, including instructional designers, project managers, writers, graphic designers, and software programmers.
At ICOM, it's our mission to challenge and inspire the world to learn differently. Over our 22-year history, we’ve developed hundreds of online education programs for some of Canada’s biggest and best-known companies. From modifying behaviours to driving business objectives, ICOM creates engaging eLearning programs that help produce real on-the-job results.
Our office is located on Stephen Avenue in the heart of downtown Calgary, close to public transportation and loads of attractions.
About The Position
As a software developer at ICOM, you will collaborate with our team of technical wizards to produce innovative solutions using the latest web technologies. Have a new technology you’ve been dying to use? We are open to trying new things, but be prepared to teach your fellow developers all about it!
Our ideal candidate has graduated with a degree in Computer Science within the last few years and is interested in cutting-edge web application development. They are able to motivate themselves in a flexible environment. They can solve problems both individually and collaboratively, while not being afraid to ask for help when the need it or take criticism of their code. They are familiar with at least one C-style language, such as PHP, Java, C, C#, JavaScript, or the Go programming language. We strive for knowledge of the full stack, so BASH command line experience will be very helpful.
Here are some of the technologies that we are currently using:
* Git/GitLab
* MySQL/Aurora
* CentOS/RHEL/Amazon Linux
* HTML & CSS/LESS
* JS
* ES6 + JSX using Babel
* React
* Node.js & npm/yarn
* PHP(5.3 & 7.1)
We don’t expect you to have had real-world experience using all of these technologies. ICOM is a learning company, and that applies to our employees as much as it applies to our clients. If any of this appeals to you, apply now!
I prefer just out of University before they can get bad habits. Training a dev takes me 6-12 months for them to break even productivity wise.
When we have had intermediate or seniors hired they would not listen to anyone else or care if their software was easy to maintain in the future. I run a small team of 6, I have had 0 turnover for 3-4 years.
I don't want devs who "get it done" I want devs that enjoy the work and want to share it.
Pogdesign has a great site. Has support for ical so you can get your shows in your normal calendar app, another nice thing is it gives you an alert for newly added shows with a description and trailer so you can easily add it to your list.
I was also on mIRC and downloading from newsgroups regularly.
I think many ISP's would give you guides about using email/newsgroups back then as those services were considered required for an ISP. TUCOWS was super popular for this newfangled WinSOCK software (TUCOWS stands for The Ultimate Collection Of WinSOCK Software). I remember testing how fast the first consumer cable internet connections were by downloading from them.
You are right for most people that stuff was probably obscure.