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Guess I am behind the times in Java news. I get that learning the basics is great and that you can then choose your path after school. Nonetheless, as an individual working for non-DOD government agencies, Java is unacceptable. My company is trying to hire individuals out of school but none of them are experts in anything except Java. Java is OOP. Out of the box it is limited but there are plenty of libraries that make it quite robust as for as OOP is concerned. I had no clue ... I was talking about the use for the Federal Government ... specifically outside of DOD. Yes, I went a bit farther than that and I know where Java is more useful. But 8 years of Java and no Python, C#, JS or C is a bit ridiculous. I didn't mean to get people butt hurt. Just ranting a bit.

XML and JSON are data formats ... not languages. JavaScript not hard to obtain? Java to C# I get. But real JavaScript professional coding ... not an easy thing for a lot of programmers to quickly pick up. I learned Java throughout school and picking up c# was not too bad. Trying to learn JQuery, Node and Angular were much different. I get knowing the basics of programming but if I want a DOD hardened application in c# which is similar to the Java you know ... you are not going to be able to do it. Further MySQL and other DB languages are query syntax (or T-SQL type code) which is nothing like C based languages. I was interested in Linus' posting abouit programmers too, but he is asking for the world of one person. I am that at my company, but my company doesn't have the needs he does.

I second WordFence ... you get notifications of suspicious activity, login attempts and much more. I have Wordfence on both of the WordPress sites that I host for companies and have never h ad any problems.

FIDDLE ... it is literally the best thing since sliced bread. Like here ... this is what I found when I was looking at how to make wizard steps via css: https://jsfiddle.net/slothbear/gxRMr/ You can mess with the code without having to deploy it locally on your test site.

So I thought I would post my frustatration here to let you all deal with it. Simple Question: WTF is up with schools these days? Background: I am a full stack developer for a company that creates and supports applications for agencies under HHS (US gov). In school I was hammered with Java from 9th grade through college (I am still in college while I work fulltime). Well ... when I got my current job I was tasked with a dashboarding application. I of course chose to go with Java and made a Java applet that I could load in the browser for our customer. After months of work and two all day-ers at the end ... I was ****-slapped in the face with the notification that the government (at least HHS does not support browser based applets). So WTF?!?!?! Now I have changed paths and have sharpened my c# skills. I have leanred to deploy web apps into AWS GovCloud that can be consumed by government agencies and have begun making custom SharePoint deployments. But still ... wtf was I learning all of the Java syntax throughout my school for? I thought this was a due rant because today Stanford announced that it was changing many of their computer science classes from Java to Javascript ... good for you Stanford! Just seems like if you are not making phone apps or creating applications that run locally ... Java is not what we should be teaching our kids. Learn something universal and that is common in both commercial and government enviornments ... Javascript! So ... tell me I am a dumb@ss or back me up and tell me that you are just as frustrated as I am in this.

Decide what you want to do: Example ... making wizard style steps for a workflow. Then google wizard steps fiiddle css. You will find a plethora of examples of what people have mode. What is even better is that with fiddle you can f with what they have done to make it work the way you want. I use fiddle in my job all the time (full stack sharepoint developer). Mess with fiddle, learn LESS (for better control without as much code), and GOOGLE! Just google what you want and add fiddle at the end. You are nearly guranteed to find something every time. Lastly, learn JQuery to mess with the CSS on the fly.

Understood. My company is a small business that attempts to deploy enterprise systems. I know that this system will require some maintenance, but I am hoping that it only require a LOE of 1hr/week (with most of the time accumulating to the life cycle of the HDDs). My employer had me build every system (including the four rack servers we use for IIS, AD, etc.) I'd love to hear linus' or anyone else who built this, to tell me what the average LOE/month is for maintenance.

Question for anyone out there .... I watched this video: It is a super cheap fileshare NAS setup! However there are a whole lot of review out there about the worries of software based RAID, no redundant PSUs (although the models I found have them) and a cluster of other concerns. My office digitizes documents (like 10 people scanning files all day every day). I want to setup a fileshare like linus' where I can laugh when someone asks if I have enough space. I am going to use freenas and I am accepting the fact that with mechanical drives in a case like this I am going to have to replace the HDDs every 2-3 years. My question: Why the **** does this cost what it does when a Dell or other enterprise system costs 400%+ more? Am I making a poor decision that will f' me later on? Is the headache of maintenance and the learning curve of the software to demanding (I am a software developer SP, JS, C#, Java ... but havent messed with linux much. Please tell me that it is going to be fine as long as I am willing to spend a weekend learning the software and setting up the server or that I am incurring more trouble than another $5k is worth. BUILD: Requirement: Handle transfer of ~ 10gb per day (all transfers happening in batches between 6pm and 10pm) and never run out of space (theoretically) Pre configed system (base): http://www.45drives.com/products/storinator-s45-configurations.php Steps: 1) Setup server in RAID 10 Start with 4x 4tb and when adding more I will setup an SSD to act as cache 2) Configure network share and mount as a drive to Windows 10 client machines Level of Effort: 2 days - weekend ... not getting paid so I don't care about hours as long as it is not during business hours