reallyJimGeek. Engineer. Software Developer. Pilot. #dadjokes #homebuilts #E46 #F23
reallyJim@billinkc@dataplatform.social "biblical width hard-back Java books"
I remember those! The ones with the gold covers, right?
reallyJim@billinkc@dataplatform.social maybe I'm thinking of the Adobe books... 
reallyJim@dof@mstdn.social When the tech is that old, they don't want them.
reallyJim@dof@mstdn.social and sane with used book stores, even if you don't expect anything in return.
reallyJimPro Windows 8.1 Development
Pro LINQ 2008
C# 2005 Business Objects
Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework
Smart Client Development with ClickOnce
Many of these I bought new, blew through them, then never returned to. Others I bought used (ClickOnce) while working on a work project and needing to better understand...and haven't looked at it in 10 years.
reallyJimI used to have many, many more, but a water leak in early 2015 wiped out a slew of what I had back then.
reallyJimStaring at my bookshelf during a meeeting. I still have a lot of old programming books--outdated tech, stuff from 2005 and beyond. Some of it is still relevant as refernce material, but books on ASP.NET 3.5 or SSRS 2005... I hate just recycling this stuff, but what do you do with it?
#BooksofMastodon #dotnet
reallyJimPro Windows 8.1 Development
Pro LINQ 2008
C# 2005 Business Objects
Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework
Smart Client Development with ClickOnce
Many of these I bought new, blew through them, then never returned to. Others I bought used (ClickOnce) while working on a work project and needing to better understand...and haven't looked at it in 10 years.
reallyJimStaring at my bookshelf during a meeeting. I still have a lot of old programming books--outdated tech, stuff from 2005 and beyond. Some of it is still relevant as refernce material, but books on ASP.NET 3.5 or SSRS 2005... I hate just recycling this stuff, but what do you do with it?
#BooksofMastodon #dotnet
reallyJimGetting ready to install Fedora on my old Windows box. Realized that the USB stick I had was an old version that was Gnome based, and I wanted the KDE release.
It took longer to climb two flights of stairs to get to my laptop to do the download than it did to actually download the new image. Amazing.
reallyJim1:45am. Insomnia sucks.
reallyJimI mentioned my Oshkosh mug rack before. It has a bit of a new twist--when the washing machine is in spin cycle, one or more of them rattle slightly, and i can't figure out which.
On a side note, as I keep adjusting them to solve that issue, I see that the sizes of the earlier ones I have are all over the place. From 2012 on, they're consistent.
reallyJimI'm cleaning up my old Windows 10 desktop while sitting in on meetings today. Getting prepared to convert to Linux, and just verifying that there aren't still any Windows specific apps that I still need/use.
Removing Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio feel a lot like saying goodbye to old friends--even though I have equal or better tooling in my Linux worlds now.
Windows itself? Bleh. It can go. I've simply gotten more and more frustrated with it over time, and given the lack of future upgrades to this older machine (January 1, 2010 + upgrades!), it's probably well past time.