Saturday, May 10th, 2008 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Many people think that I am programmer… But what is definition of programmer?
Wikipedia says: A programmer is someone who writes computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software.
My last desktop program was Multiview for AmigaOS 2.04+ which ended life in 2000 year (after over 3 years of development). Then I changed platform to Debian GNU/Linux and started to mainly use software instead of writing it. Of course during studies I wrote some code in few languages (C, C++, Z80 Asm, PIC16 Asm/C/BASIC and maybe some other) but none of them was something to be used by normal people.
For few years my work title was “PHP programmer” (with some variants) but writing code for websites is different thing then for desktop computers.
Eric Sink wrote one day great post about programmers and developers. According to this I am rather developer then programmer.
My programmer part of me know how to fix code written in PHP (used this language for few years to get paid), Python (but never got proper amount of knowledge about it) and few others — one day I had to debug small application written in 8086 assembler which I saw for first time — and all I had was source code printout.
But I also many times worked with clients to get informations what they really need to be done in project and those discussions changed many aspects of first draft of specifications. Then transforming specs into design and finally into code which gives working service at the end. Providing help to few ~60 years old ladies which use CMS written by you can be hard job — especially when documentation is not yet created so no one else know each system parts.
But there are many work titles to choose from: Programmer, Developer, Engineer, Software (Engineer / Architect / Developer / Designer) so I probably will stay with Developer and will not try to explain too much what exactly I am doing for living :)
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Today is last day of my work for Conecto. I decided to bake a cake for this occassion (to bake something other then bits which I usually bake with bitbake) but oven in our kitchen is hard to control so it got burnt and I decided to not take it to work (but I will eat it — I am cookiemonster ;)
Hopefully there are cake shops around so I will be able to buy something instead.
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Today I again had to work on getting customer server working for website which we did at work. Since my last visit machine was replaced from crappy Celeron 333MHz with 128M ram and 2G SCSI harddrive — all under 5 years old RedHat with 2.4.2 kernel — to dual p3/700 with 1G ram and much larger harddrive. It also got updated distribution but something a bit newer — Aurox 10.1 with 2.6.9 kernel.
Remote logged as root looks weird.. all shells with # — but if admin is lazy or do not know how to create user accounts…
The worst thing was that I had to be an admin there to get all LAMP components working in required versions. Now machine is building newer PHP from source because finding something on Aurox website is like looking into /dev/null ;( No informations for older releases, no public bugtracker, two misc forums (newer one treat my Firefox as WAP browser) — nightmare…
But it is nice to find that RPM based distros got some tools to fetch packages from network other then wget ;)
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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Today I tried to install MediaWiki on one of servers and failed. This monster need memory_limit set to atleast 20M or will fail. Target system has it set to 8M and everything which is hosted there works fine. All I got from MediaWiki installer was memory allocation failed and it died.
There is no way to install this other then this web based something which does not work… Crap
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Today I noticed that 4 years ago I started work at Polnet SA in Wrocław, Poland as PHP programmer. It was times of PHP 4.0.4 when register_globals was normal thing, when using short_tags (< ? ?>) was something which does not bothered me (today it conflict with XML).
Now portal for which I wrote most of code exist in other form, many sections was removed, not all work — time passed, company died.
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