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The 7 dirtiest jobs in IT
Dirty IT job No. 7: Legacy systems archaeologist
Believe it or not, Cobol developers are still in demand, says Jim Lanzalotto, vice president of Yoh, a technology talent and outsourcing firm.
Dirty IT job No. 6: Help desk zombie
Here’s the job that every IT professional hates. Bruce Kane, senior consultant at a messaging consultancy in North Carolina, defines a dirty job as “anything where you have to visit or talk to end-users. Help desk, desk side support, etc. Icky! Users have cooties!”
Dirty IT job No. 5: On-site reboot specialist
Closely related to the help desk zombie, but even lower on the totem pole, is the on-site reboot specialist, says Scott Crawford, research director at Enterprise Management Associates in Boulder, Colo. Unlike help desk or support vampires, the on-site rebootnik must venture out into the physical world and deal with actual people.
Dirty IT job No. 4: Interdepartmental peace negotiator
Cats and dogs, Democrats and Republicans, Martians and Venutians — they’re downright chummy compared to warring departments within many enterprises. Unfortunately, at some point they’ve got to pull together for the good of the company. That’s when you call in the negotiator to smooth ruffled feathers and break up the fights.
Dirty IT job No. 3: Enterprise espionage engineer (black ops)
Social engineer, con artist, penetration tester, or white hat hacker — whatever you call it, Jim Stickley has a dirty job that actually sounds like fun. As VP of engineering and CTO of TraceSecurity in Baton Rouge, La., Stickley gets to talk his way into a client’s offices, sneak into their datacenters, make off with the company’s vitals, then come back later to show them where their internal security broke down.
Dirty IT job No. 2: Datacenter migration specialist
Moving a datacenter is a dirty job. Moving one halfway across the country in 48 hours — that’s a really dirty job. But that was the task facing Scott Wilson and his firm, Marathon Consulting, when one of its clients needed to close down its Chicago datacenter the day before Thanksgiving 2003 and open for business in New York the following Monday.
Dirty IT job No. 1: Sludge systems architect
Sometimes dirty jobs are just that — dirty. These days, technology goes everywhere: oil rigs, pulp mills, sewage plants, you name it. Somebody’s gotta clean up the mess and keep the lights on.
Source: InfoWorld
How Are Smartphones Being Used?
This Tatango infographic was created by using a range of data culled via the Pew Research Centers, Internet and American Life Project.
Inside the World of Android Usage
How is the Android taking over the world? Look at this data aggregated from Nielsen, AdMob, PCWorld, and Android Market created by Mobile17.
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
- Use “asd” or a,b,c as variable names.
- Use acronyms.
- Use an alternate vocabulary to refer to the same action, e.g. display, show, present.
- Randomly capitalize a letter in the middle of a word (e.g. ComputeRasterHistoGram()).
- Use Åccented characters (e.g. typedef struct { int i; ínt;} where the second ínt’s í is actually i-acute.
- Use foreign language dictionaries as a source for variable names.
- Choose variable names with irrelevant emotional connotation (e.g.: marypoppins = (superman + starship) / god;). #nosense!!
- Use lower case L to indicate long constants. e.g. 10l mistaken for 101.
- Consider variant spellings as a variant on the ploy, e.g. mixing International colour, with American color and dude-speak kulerz. If you spell out names in full, there is only one possible way to spell each name.
- Use misleading names for methods (e.g. a method named isValid(x) should as a side effect convert x to binary and store the result in a database).
I love this article.. #soevil xD
Work hold-ups
Last Thursday (11th August) I had to contact IT department regarding domain name transfer from the old server to a new one. My main contact was one of the heads of the IT center.
He said he can only transfer the IP address without changing the physical path. To complete the full process I have to wait for an another guy, which is supposed to come back from his vacation the following Sunday (and there is no one else who can solve this in his place).
So, patiently, I waited for Sunday through the weekend. Thankfully, the guy came back and he was very responsive when I contacted him. Eventually, I got the complete response the following Thursday (yesterday), saying that this cannot be done this week. Note that that Thursday was the last working day as we were froced to take our annual leave from 21st to 31st August (last 10 days of Ramadan).
So, now I’m stuck without an update for the site and facing constant insistence from my supervisor to complete that website as we face a long vacation afterwards. So, instead of pointing fingers without anything to be solved, I decided to use the old server by replacing the old design of the website to the new one. As simple as that!
The good side is that I get to work 1 hour overtime which means extra $!!!
The bad side is that I’m not sure how professional it looks like, though the director did mention he didn’t care even if the registration was plain white page with black text, since this what matters the most with the website!
I’m really proud that I came up with the replacing idea (thanks to khawater 7 by Ahmed Al-Shugairi *), yet frustrated that I didn’t think of this earlier >.<
Anyways, take a look: www.econf.uob.edu.bh and tell me what you think!!