Sunday, August 04, 2002

Industry Burn-Out. Chris Sells has a spout today about industry burn-out. He and I were just talking about it earlier today (coincidence? :-p), and I'm in agreement that many of the people I know are feeling like it's time to move on. This career has a pretty high base stress level, and it gets jacked up pretty much randomly. You never know where the next crisis is going to come from, or when the next 90 hour week is going to present itself. There is an intense pressure to keep current on the newest technologies, but there are so many new technologies that you're not even sure which ones should be studied. No human could even come close to knowing them all, so make a wrong step, and you could "learn" yourself out of a top job. In my experience, developers do too little vacationing, too little socializing, and way too much working. It's funny, that: the promise of being millionaires disappeared in late 1999/early 2000, but I still talk to people who are putting in ungodly hours. For what? Is it us or the career that makes us act like this? Will a change in careers help? Link   Discuss [The .NET Guy] 5:52:02 PM     What's Wrong with Web Services?. This excellent article from IBM's developerWorks looks into possible shortcoming of Web Services and recommends how these potential problems can be overcome. The shortcomings focus on security/privacy, messaging/routing, quality-of-service/reliability, transaction processing, management performance, and interoperability while pointing to numerous benefits of Web Services. [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog] 5:47:06 PM     Intercept, Monitor, and Modify Web Requests with HTTP Filters in ISAPI and ASP.NET. In ASP.NET, the IHttpModule interface provides notification of server requests, and lets you easily reroute them based on criteria other than browser type or version. Here the author demonstrates the use of IHttpModule for interception and explains the use of ISAPI filters for anyone who isn't yet using ASP.NET. [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog] 5:46:22 PM     Best Pratices for Using ADO.NET. I ran across this article on Best Practices for Using ADO.NET. [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog] 5:40:37 PM     Man Hijacks Al-Qaida Web Site, FBI Fumbles: "When Web operator Jon Messner gained control of one of al-Qaida's prime Internet communication sites, he offered it to the FBI to use it for disinformation and collecting data about sympathizers. What followed, he says, was a week of frustration." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] 5:38:10 PM     "5 minute IQ test" [Daypop Top 40] - I scored 129. 5:35:42 PM

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