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Large Beach House Walk to Short Sands Beach 42 Main St. in York Beach
- bedrooms 5
- baths 1½
- sleeps 14
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Labor Day Weekend Special! 5 Bedroom House in Short Sands Beach
large outdoor patio area is great for entertaining. 5 bedrooms. 4 have queen size pillow top beds and fifth bedroom has 2 sets of bunk beds. Air conditioned bedrooms and living room. Rent for 3 nights or more. Price listed is based on 3 nights
- $2,650 $1,000/week ($1,650 off)
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vacation rental description
Large comfortable fully furnished 5 bedroom house only a short walk to Short Sands beach and downtown attractions. Large fenced yard with BBQ gas grill Umbrella Table and plenty of seating out-side. Also has rain & sun sheltered gazeebo tent. Out-door shower, faucet and parking off street for 3 cars.
This house will accommadate the largest of families! Close to Everything!
A 3BR , 1 1/2 Bath Cottage also on property available to accomadate up to 8 or more at an additional discounted weekly charge.
Check calender for week availabilities or email or call Paula for up to minute availabilities and ask for our website address for 6 more cottages we have available from 2-5 BR.
No Cleaning Fee providing you "Leave it clean & re-rentable". Vac & cleaning supplies in cottage.
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Bonnie LeRoux 339-234-1512
house rental amenities
Downstairs has a large Ceiling Fanned kitchen with seating for at least six and an attached swing door to Formal Dinning room that will seat at least eight. The fully equipped kitchen has a Washer/Dryer combo and tastefully furnished and decorated with Mahogany styled wainscotting. Galley style cabinet area leading to the Large Formal Dinning Room with all the pots & pans, dishes, utensils you'll need. Also Coffee Maker, Toaster, Microwave, Large Refridgerator plus extra Refridgerator on 3 Season porch, Dishwasher, and even 2 Lobster Pots. Everything you would need to feed a large family.
Also downstairs is one bedroom w/queen bed, pillow-top comforter, TV w/dvr, full dresser with half bath attached. Beautifully decorated Living Room has TV w/dvr, Stereo radio, sofa & loveseat, wing back chair, coffee table and end tables and window A/C. Beautiful hardwood floors through-out!
Large enclosed 3-season farmers porch with trundle bed and plenty of comfortable seating and the extra fridge!
Upstairs has 4 bedrooms and a full bath. All bedrooms have queen beds w/ pillow top comforters except one bedroom has 2 sets of bunk beds with futon bottoms for the extra kids. All bedrooms have window AC's and cable TV's w/dvds. Call or email for web address for more detailed descriptions & photos. We have other properties all walk to beach. We do not supply personal linens but can refer you for linen service if needed.
activities and attractions in York Beach Maine
Walk to the beach and the downtown attractions in just a few minutes to the Famous Wild Kingdom Zoo & Amusement Park, The Goldenrod Taffy House and Restaurant. All our properties have an old fashioned beach wagon to help lug all your stuff to the beach!
Just a Short drive to Long Sands Beach, York Harbor Beach, York River Bridge for fishing and Perkins Cove. Plenty of attractions only a short drive from this location like the Kittery Outlets & Trading Post, many Museums and the National Albacore Submarine Park is only a half hour drive to Portsmouth. Too much to do to describe here! Rain or Shine you'll have a good time!
vacation rental rates
Calendar Shows Availability.
July & August $2650. per week
June & Sept. $1750. per week
$500 sec deposit required prior to entering cottage. Mailed back to you after your vacation providing terms & conditions are complied with.
8% Maine Lodging Tax NOT INCLUDED
Check-In 3PM Check-Out 10AM Saturday to Saturday rentals only.
Cottage must be left in a clean and rentable condition upon vacating or a minimum cleaning fee of $250.00 will be deducted from the security deposit.
Cottage contains cleaning supplies
to verify availability for this property or for our other 6 properties please contact Paula or visit our website which contain additional photos and information.
Personal Linens NOT SUPPLIED
Only Personal Checks or Money Orders accepted. Sorry No Credit Cards accepted.
For last minute bookings we accept only Bank Checks or Money Orders in full payment.
3 payment installment plan available for Early Bookers only. 3 Equal Payments. First payment due within 7 days and required to hold vacation dates, 3rd pmt. due 60 days before rental begins. This service available for your convienence since we do not accept credit cards
No Smoking inside unit.
We are accepting reservations now for the coming season.
Bonnie LeRoux 339-234-1512
accepted payment methods
Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.Learn more in our Security Center
Top things to do in York Beach
- Swim
- Surf
- Funorama Video Center
- Bowling
- Many Quaint Shops
Top things to do on a budget
- Picnic at local beach & parks
- Free concerts nightly on beach
- Hiking
- Walk the Marginal Way
- Bridge & Surf Fishing
Top things to do with a family
- Beach
- Picnicing
- Touring Museums
- Deep Sea Fishing
- Golfing & Sailing
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George Williams recently celebrated his "21st birthday" with a birthday bash at Ponderosa.
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It's been about 10 days since Hurricane Sandy ripped through sections of New York and New Jersey, gashing the landscape and leaving behind wounds that will heal, but with scars.
In Wayland and Sudbury, power lines and trees bore the brunt of Sandy's wrath, but those small inconveniences pale in comparison when the images of locations in Sandy's direct path cross television screens and magazines.
Wayland resident Cynthia Hill on Sunday night watched a segment of "60 Minutes" focused on the section of Queens, N.Y., known as Breezy Point. It's a community that Hill first encountered after 9/11, when Hill and her husband, David, traveled to a fire station in New York to meet some of the firefighters who lost colleagues the day of the attacks. On Sept. 11, 2001, Hill and her husband were traveling from Logan Airport themselves and boarded a plane next to one of the planes used in the attacks.
After that day, and realizing how close they came to being passengers on one of the tragic Sept. 11 flights, Hill created a needlepoint belt for her husband and they traveled to New York where some firefighters added stitches to that belt. Hill also set out to raise money for the children of firefighters who died responding to the attacks. The Hill family's relationships with firefighters there continue to this day.
The devastating losses Hill saw in Breezy Point, a community where many of those N.Y. firefighters from her past live, broke her heart and compelled her to action.
Within 48 hours, Hill and some friends had secured the cooperation of Wayland's local emergency officials and the as-yet-unopened Wayland Town Center Stop & Shop to conduct a massive supply drive that will take place from Friday, Nov. 9 through Sunday, Nov. 11.
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- Space heaters
- Hose* (all sizes)
- Screw guns (cordless)
- Wheelbarrows*
- Generators
- Electric cords* (50-foot & 100-foot lengths)
- Shovels*
- Bleach*
- Contractor bags*
- Antifreeze
- Rubber boots (the kind that slip over regular shoes)
- Work gloves* (M, L and XL)
- Hooded sweatshirts (L, XL and XXL)
- Multi-roll packages of toilet paper
- Baby wipes
- Adult diapers
- Feminine products
Hill is also requesting warm, like-new clothing for men, women and children as well as non-perishable, grab-and-go foods that don't require water to prepare -- items such as granola bars, fruit cups, pre-made tuna salad in sealed pouches, cheese and crackers, Spam and more. Avoid brinign items with nuts or crushable items like chips.
"And let's not forget the children," Hill added, suggesting items such as jump ropes, board games or hulahoops. "Think of your own children's most basic needs."
Suzi Robinson a spokeswoman with Stop & Shop said the grocery chain was thrilled to be able to help when approached about the Breezy Point Project.
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Does the alcove have windows? If so, how high from the floor (i.e. would they interfere with the riser)?
My ceiling is pretty decent at 8'7".
Also, I now have two registers servicing the room, straight 10 ft runs right off of the main trunk line. I believe that two will be enough but I do not have a return. Is the purpose of the "dead vent" for the return?
Steps in the hallway could allow another seat in the front row....
So what way do those steps go up or down? And exactly what is the function of the room beside the stairs?
The ceiling in the hallway could be at the height of the soffit and hide the ductwork completely.
This is the general layout with chairs. I like the symmetry of two rows of 3. I could get 4 across and still have steps on both sides but that seems a bit crowded. Not sure on the riser height yet, will plan later.
Here is the layout with columns. I may place the back columns at each corner and make bass traps. I enjoy wood working and am tryiing to figure out a color scheme, probably going to be black and brown(s), the cabinets will be walnut. I have alot of walnut in my father in-laws shop. The stage and screen wall is probably going to be trimmed out in walnut also. Still up in the air. Going with a DIY star ceiling, I am just starting to go thru some threads on folks that have done it and gather some info, soffit will have crown and up lighting. I have two AC supplies which run from the trunk line (to the left of the screen wall) to the back of the room. Dead vent in back right side as a return.
And this is the 1st lighting plan. Not sure yet how I am going to work in the soffit and the can lights up front shining on the stage. To be continued.....
I prefer offset seating when it allows for a lower riser. Otherwise, I prefer not wasting money on a chair that will go unused.
Won't the support poles in the front stage area have a serious impact on audio? The poles will box the mains and (I'm guessing) they will have an impact
on sound pans and imaging. And won't the support posts will be a conduit for bass to get to the home's framing (and spread)? You also have the seats on the rear wall
and viewers will be right on top of the rear surrounds. Those surrounds will be very distracting to anyone seated nearby.
BTW, where are you planting the av rack? That alcove might work...
-You need to make your riser much deeper if you plan on reclining theater seats. 5' deep is not enough. Shoot for at least 6'-6", but more is better as it will pull your seats further away from the rear surrounds.
-HVAC supplies are more common in the front of the room, or on the sides if you can keep air flow from blowing directly on the seats. Seems like you would get better circulation if the supplies were on the opposite side of the room from the return, but I'm not an HVAC expert.
-Be careful when planning the locations of your can lights, supplies and columns. You most likely want a symmetrical look when done, with either your can lights centered between the columns (washing the walls), or centered on each column. Or, you can have them centered on AND between the columns if you need a little more light. However, you don't want your light spacing to seem random relative to the columns or it's going to look funny. Once you figure out the spacing of your lights & columns, locate your supplies in a location that doesn't conflict.
-If you are going with a curved stage, you might consider a curved soffit to hold your lights above the screen. Here is an example from my build.
I don't know if the dimensions would work, but have you looked at flipping the room and hiding your support posts in decorative columns of a rear row bar? I think you would only have room for one row of seats in front of the bar, but it might be an option.
I like this plan but you need to be sure the hallway at the bottom of the stairs is reasonably wide, not only for code but for getting things up and down the stairs. It looks like you can sacrificece some width to make it reasonable. The door to the theater should be ahead of the first row and that decorator column may need to be moved. I didn't see mention of your choice of seating but as mentioned reclining HT seats require a riser at least 6 1/2 ft deep even then having your head at the back wall is not the best for surround sound.
Draw that plan more to scale for another review.
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I had the same concern. I did not want it to be tight at the bottom of the stairs and to be honest I did not want a hallway at all. So i think I may go with something like this
The two boxes in the adjacent room will be the equipment rack and the blue one is the deadvent. This is an updated room spec
I did not add a door as I was waiting for some guidance on where to place it. Also the seating is still up in the air. I would probably want a couch/loveseat configuration in the rear row and the reclining seats up front.
@Spaceman - The stage looks great. I love the curved look.
Thanks all for your comments. I will continue to finalize plans and post as I do. Please keep the comments coming, there are alot of great ideas garnered from the folks around here.
I did save all of the fiberglass insulation, that will come in handy real soon.
Tearing this down and moving a wall is going to require that I make some modifications to my electrical runs, but nothing major. I will also have to reposition the ceiling fan in the adjacent room.
More this weekend.
A little demo as well....
And then a bit of cleaning. I will be framing the theater wall in the a.m.
This pile got bigger and bigger.....
These are the archways I had in the original plan, I really loved the look but I just knew that I would regret not having a single dedicated room, with all of the acoustic benefits of that room
And then........
And now.....
This is the back wall of the theater, I still have to frame the right wall.
AT screen will go right in front of the poles
The two HVAC supplies are running on the outside walls of the HT....
This is the right one
and this is the left
The plan is to drop those into the soffits that will run the perimeter of the HT and run the flex duct to about the middle of the room (at the sides coming out the bottom of the soffit)
Does anyone have any suggestions/comments on how to do this.
the plan is to drop the ducts using flex into the soffits and then make the run to the middle of the midpoint in the soffit and place the register there. I was going to use flex/insulated 8" ducts and then wrap loosely with insulation and wrap with MLV.
What I've done in the past is to attach the metal collar to the ceiling duct work and leave hanging up in the joist space. After the double layer is up on the ceiling cut a round hole and reach up and persuade the collar to join the party in the theater. I've also just cut a snug round hole and pulled the flex duct though the hole. Not totally sure which provides the best sound barrier
Don't forget you need a return or all this effort is wasted.
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The return will be a dead vent that I am building in the back right corner of the room, the dead vent itself will be in the room adjacent. that is why I wanted to move the supplies to the middle of the room, i didnt want the supplies and return right in the same spot. I dont know if that makes an impact but I thought it might. Again, thanks for the comments.
What are the options of hiding the surround speakers, other than concealing inside of a column. Are there other options and what are their limitations.
This is the theater that I plan to implement, at least very similar to this and I cannot think of how to house the surrounds since the columns will be completely hardwood.
Triad will custom match the grills of their on-wall surrounds to any fabric color so you can hide them in plain sight.
You can use in-walls and hide them behind a fabric wall, obviously there are limits of which fabrics you can use.
You can use in-walls and paint the grills the same color as the walls.
You can use In-ceiling speakers
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That gives me some options.
Does anyone have any suggestions on where to put the return in the front of the room so it is inconspicuous.
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You have two dead vents? One for a supply and one return.
that brings me to another question, is one return and two supplies good enough for my size room. 20x16 roughly
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Album Rating: 5.0Never though I would hit 100. Thanks sputnik, you've been great.
Probably tons of errors, and I'm sure as hell going to regret the amount of hyperbole, but I've been wanting to write this for a long, long time.
this is long
you're lucky you're generally a great writer or else i would never read all of this
here we goDigging: Emarosa - Versus
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Never though I would hit 100. Thanks sputnik, you've been great.
No Xeno, thank YOU. Not only have you steadily climbed up the great sputnik ladder of quality to become one of the site's best and most active writers, but I think that you are also a great person. I hope that there are still lots of reviews to come, and I that you get that well-deserved contributor title very soon.
Oh and by the way: this review is so great, I actually read it twice because of the sheer awesomeness. Pos (as if there ever was a doubt about that).
Never though I would hit 100. Thanks sputnik, you've been great.
Wow Xeno, you really knocked it outta the park with number 100.
That being said, congratulations on making it to the big 100 buddy
Album Rating: 3.0Only Sigur Ros Album I don't particularly adore...
Album Rating: 5.0Grats on 100! review is stellar - pos.
Glad to see this album finally get a proper 5 review. The first time I heard Svefn-g-englar I felt like a small child, wrapped in the comfort and weight of the world.
Album Rating: 4.5Congratulations Xeno, pos'd.
Album Rating: 4.5Awesome review. The way you describe it being natural/organic but other-worldly at the same time is pretty how much exactly how I feel about At the Drive-In's Relationship of Command, so I can relate.
I need to hear this album, too. ( ) is the only Sigur Ros release I've heard in its entirety. Sounds like I'm missing out a bit, haha.
Album Rating: 5.0Excellent review for such a cornerstone. Grats bro
Album Rating: 3.0Dude..totally missed that.
Happy 100 man!
Album Rating: 5.0this album : )
congrats on 100!
Album Rating: 4.5Congrats on 100, Xeno. You're one of my favorite reviewers on this site.
Keep up the great work! I'm seeing you as a contributor in the near future.
Album Rating: 5.0Thanks for all the kind comments you guys, it really does mean a lot :' )
Album Rating: 4.0Mes plus sincères félicitations, Xeno. Mammoth review for the francophone I am haha. I'll read it later.
Album Rating: 5.0my jaw literally dropped when i saw you'd chosen this as your 100th, stellar review. congrats, man. the qualit and consistency of your writing is definitely something sputnik should be thanking you for (in title form, soon we hope)
but uh... i think this is one of the greatest albums of all-time. i don't even want to say that subjectively. 5 years later after my 13-year old self fell in love with this i still can't find a sliver of a thing wrong with it.
Congrats X-Man! :D
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North Marion pair Holly McKinnon, left, and Rob Blackmer, center, were voted player and coach of the year, respectively, in the Class 5A Florida Dairy Farmers softball awards released this week. (Photo by Doug Engle/Staff photographer)
North Marion High School pitcher Holly McKinnon and head coach Rob Blackmer made it a clean sweep in the Class 5A Florida Dairy Farmers softball awards released this week.
McKinnon, a powerful right-hander, guided the Colts to the first regional semifinal in school history after posting a 23-2 record, including 12 shutouts. The junior led Marion County in both ERA (0.43) and strikeouts (299) over 163 innings.
The University of South Alabama commit also hit .474 with seven home runs, nine doubles and a team-high 32 RBIs.
McKinnon is now a finalist for the Miss Softball Award, which goes to the state's best overall player regardless of classification.
"I kind of knew she was very well-deserving of it," Blackmer said of his ace. "She always does whatever it takes to make herself better, and she's got the stats to back it up... I know her goal, like most of the girls out there, is to win Miss Softball."
Blackmer, who has gone 40-10 over his two seasons at North Marion, is also in the running for the Dairy Farmers Coach of the Year award, which will be released after a final vote by a statewide panel of high school softball coaches and media representatives.
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All three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading up 76 points (0.5%) at 15,300 as of Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 12:50 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 2,101 issues advancing vs. 849 declining with 106 unchanged.The Leisure industry currently sits up 0.3% versus the S&P 500, which is up 1.2%. A company within the industry that increased today was Las Vegas Sands (LVS), up 1.0%.TheStreet would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the industry higher today:3. Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) is one of the companies pushing the Leisure industry higher today. As of noon trading, Royal Caribbean Cruises is up $0.38 (1.1%) to $34.53 on light volume. Thus far, 495,981 shares of Royal Caribbean Cruises exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.9 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $34.19-$34.65 after having opened the day at $34.46 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $34.15. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. operates as a cruise company worldwide. It owns five cruise brands comprising Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Pullmantur, Azamara Club Cruises, and CDF Croisieres de France. Royal Caribbean Cruises has a market cap of $7.5 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are up 0.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Royal Caribbean Cruises a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.TheStreet Ratings rates Royal Caribbean Cruises as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations and increase in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including generally higher debt management risk, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins. Get the full Royal Caribbean Cruises Ratings Report now.3x UPSIDE POTENTIAL: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12-months. Learn more.
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Part of my job is hiring people to build websites for advertising clients. Most of the things that we build don't compete with brain surgery for complexity, but as anyone knows when working in software, having skilled people working on simple problems often leads to scalable, well built solutions – I hire accordingly. The problem is how do you define "skilled" and does it even have meaning in software out of the context of a company's needs?
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How about you?
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- Explain a number of HTTP status codes (except maybe 404 and 500).
- Explain SOLID or name a design pattern.
- Explain ways to improve a pages load speed or user experience.
You may think I am being being aggressive in suggesting this, but if you can't answer the questions above there are a lot of people who wouldn't think of you as a Senior Web Developer (maybe we can rule SOLID out… but you understand my point). However what do you call yourself if you have been building websites for 10 years in ASP.Net (or PHP, or Perl, or anything…) and you need a title?
This got me thinking though: how do you define seniority or skill in Software Engineering terms. Especially when hiring.
So many people can have simple roles for long periods of time, where they aren't necessarily exposed to new principles or changes in their industry – do these people deserve high 6 figure salaries and "Senior" or "Architect" in their job titles?
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If you have been building applications, websites, or *whatever* for many many years, you would hope you would have become considerably good at it. This doesn't make you a senior developer, and this I think often gets lost on most of our ilk. It does make you good at what you have been doing.
But my view on people compared to your view on a candidate and their skills might be totally different – because I am totally blinded by the context for which I need from my new team member. My definition of senior will be totally different from that of someone hiring at a place that builds landing systems for spacecraft; or someone working on small business accounting packages.
In my hiring case, I was looking for someone who had a fair bit of experience building websites in ASP.Net and c# among other things. Not someone to build the next Google. However our industry only thinks of people in terms. "Junior ASP.Net developer", "Senior Ruby programmer","Mid level PHP developer". I don't think this describes people's experience or knowledge levels well enough.
Usually this equates to someone who is new, has been around for a while, or is an "old salt" at whatever they were doing – maybe building "Hello World" websites over and over… Who knows?
Maybe it's time to rewrite how we describe people in our industry. Something similar to Scott Hanselman's use of "FizzBin" in technical support calls might just do…
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Chuck Dillon replied on Tue, 2012/04/10 - 10:21am
Consider that skill and encyclopedic fact storage are two different things. What you know and your skill level are two different things. It seems to me that you are focused on facts and ignoring what brings value to a team.
Your description of your interview is unrelated to skill. You, self described as knowing nothing, are evaluating others on facts when you need skills. If you are hiring a full time permanent person to work in a discipline that is highly dynamic why focus on facts that will be irrelevant before they get a five years of service recognition scrunchy ball?
Skilled SEs (engineers in general) work within the problem space they are given and get stuff done. One of their primary characteristics is that they can climb any learning curve in their area of expertise and they can climb faster than lesser skilled SEs. They are highly adaptive and so often are not the people who can quote language specs and such.
Rather than try to find someone you are confident is atop the learning curves in your domain, consider looking for someone who has verifiable accomplishments and a verifiable aptitude for scaling learning curves. For senior level positions look for leadership qualities.
If all you want is someone to fit into a cookie cutter slot, hire a consultant who fits your slot.
Arjay Nacion replied on Tue, 2012/04/10 - 11:00am
A good programmer is not measured by his capability to answer those technical questions but more on how he knows how to apply fundamental knowledge in his work.. for example even if you know how POST works, design patterns etc... if you lack the skills to apply the right algorithm to a problem, then you still have a long way to go.. Algorithms are one of the important foundations for a programmer.. It is a tool for providing a solution which does not only work.. but is also a solution that is correct, efficient and would stand the tests of time..
Anyone can create solutions that work.. but few can create the "RIGHT" solutions.
Fabien Bergeret replied on Wed, 2012/04/11 - 6:34am
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A couple points here.
Interest - I've been a professional SE since 1978. My interests are golfing, bowling, my family, watching baseball and the like. No software technology or trend or author or blog or what-have-you is on my list of interests. I get paid to do software I don't "live it". What I know about the underlying esoteric details of technologies I apply is a function of the collective need-to-know I've encountered, period.
POST/HTTP code - I don't do web apps but I know that these are foundation technologies that few of today's developers use directly. Those that do know the esoteric details about that layer of technology. Those that use higher level technologies don't have a need to know. If/when they need to know there should be no problem in them acquiring that knowledge. There's no rocket science here. Answering your questions correctly requires only the experience of reading "HTTP for dummies" which any middle school student can do.
Problem space - Web apps, and technologies are not problem spaces. They are technologies, tools to be applied to problem spaces by people who engineer software solutions.
I don't mean to be disrespectful or argumentative. My primary point here is that skills are persistent while technologies and tools come and go. If I had become religious about developing FORTRAN on CDC mainframes in the early 1980's my career would have been pretty damn unfullfilling. Don't expect and coerce young developers to marry the latest technologies or any technology. Expect them to have skills and adaptability.


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