What tech stuff do you consider yourself most proficient in?

4/26/2010 10:33:17 PM

Typing

4/26/2010 10:35:06 PM

URMOM#.NET

oh and java and javascript

<3 .js

4/26/2010 10:42:52 PM

Hmm.... interesting question.

I'd say I consider myself really good at problem solving - from analysis of the problem to implementation and installation. Usually I'm better at the hardware side of problem solving (getting the right tools to get the job done.)

I consider myself 'proficient' at a lot of things that make ^ possible; but I find the most joy after a long time working and finally getting to hit that power switch for the first time. Hearing the fans whirr up to nominal right before I dump everything I can at it to see where it's limits are.

4/26/2010 10:45:20 PM

networking
hardware diag and repair

java and C for languages

4/26/2010 10:45:51 PM

right clicking

4/26/2010 10:47:59 PM

high-availability networking.

4/26/2010 10:48:36 PM

managing the misguided projects of shoe-gazing engineers

[Edited on April 26, 2010 at 10:51 PM. Reason : sup qntmfred]

4/26/2010 10:51:10 PM

plumbing

after all, it is a series of tubes...

4/26/2010 10:52:25 PM

Javascript/AJAX + CSS
PHP

UI design, UX, interactivity, functionality, etc. and then building my own designs (so i guess that part is tech related)

4/26/2010 10:56:07 PM

ITITT

4/26/2010 10:57:54 PM

I'm enjoying this thread - I feel like IT guys are frequently pigeonholed into we just make their computer work. And if it breaks it was our fault and we (of course) know how to fix it over the phone. Awesome to see all the diversity

4/26/2010 11:00:03 PM

^haha...yeah... I mean I can troubleshoot/fix a computer but the real question is do I want to?

My family always call me all the time for their computer troubles, finally I caved and just bought my mom a Macbook Pro...best decision I ever made.


(although I still get the occasional 'how do i...' calls since its a new OS for her)

4/26/2010 11:02:40 PM

pan & zoom, pan & zoom.

i think my two specialties are web design & custom computer building.

4/26/2010 11:05:18 PM

I'm the guy that gets his hands a little into everything ... computer hardware builds, web development, network management, server management (Linux and Windows, to include Exchange/AD), various programming languages.

I guess I'm currently using Python pretty heavily for a big test automation project at work, it's been growing on me pretty heavily. My free time is limited these days, so fun projects are sorta at a standstill for the rest of the year.

I've been tinkering with everything computers since I was 8 or 9 in the late 80s. Shoot, Prospero and I did some killer (hah) web sites back in the mid-late 90s when we weren't playing Duke Nukem 3D via modem ... oh those were the days!

4/26/2010 11:29:26 PM

^And I think I've been building computers ever since we built your first in what 1996-ish? At least one of us went into computing, lol.

[Edited on April 26, 2010 at 11:38 PM. Reason : .]

4/26/2010 11:37:50 PM

Geocities.

4/27/2010 12:13:48 AM

Quote :

"What's your specialty "

4/27/2010 12:17:05 AM

Delphi, *.Net, databases, networking.

4/27/2010 12:22:18 AM

Custom hardware builds, especially when it comes to high-end computers.

Otherwise I'm pretty much average (on the computer geek scale, not the average person scale) with all other fields.

4/27/2010 3:16:04 AM

Video conferencing.

4/27/2010 7:46:17 AM

#1: Training and documentation

#2: Hardware repair

#3: Lab configuration

[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 7:59 AM. Reason : typo]

4/27/2010 7:59:09 AM

i'll tell you what it's not: installing mpi4py without root

4/27/2010 8:17:25 AM

Routing/Multicast/Fixing things that should not have been attempted in the first place ... and lots of random cisco stuff that has no category

4/27/2010 8:21:32 AM

Pissing off faculty with a sense of entitlement.

4/27/2010 8:29:32 AM

Databases, SQL/Oracle, Web Development, Terminal Services, Foxpro (I know), Windows Anything, Hardware Recommendations, Software Implementation, Systems Administration, Networking. Basically, if something at my company stops working that seems techy, all eyes are on me.

4/27/2010 8:32:02 AM

^ You don't sound terribly busy.

4/27/2010 8:38:58 AM

Quote :

"Prospero: and I think I've been building computers ever since we built your first in what 1996-ish? At least one of us went into computing, lol."

Shit man, didn't you drive a group of us in the SE-R up to Nova for some MS tech demo and we all got free copies of XP Professional? I used that disk to build my first couple of computers with Ryan (can't remember his SN), and that's when I got into serious ground up PC builds. I was even telling one of the guys at work about that trip yesterday.

And since it is only two guys here, I do a little of everything. Other guy is angling to be Network Admin (he's just a Tech like me right now) so he likes to handle most of the networking shit, which is fine by me. I am usually the man at problem solving hardware/software issues on the workstations. Do very little rebuilding, aside from swapping out a motherboard or HDD. Mainly just loading software and cleaning viruses when a teacher or administrator gets it jammed up.

[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 8:57 AM. Reason : ]

4/27/2010 8:42:27 AM

I'm obviously not terribly busy, I'm posting on TWW. I used to work in the trenches, but I'm still expected to fix everything.

4/27/2010 9:04:11 AM

Pixel Analysis - I can tell from the pixels whether a given image was Photoshopped or not

4/27/2010 9:04:46 AM

everything except for scrub tier shit like deskside support and web "development"

4/27/2010 9:35:41 AM

release management & deployment

[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 9:36 AM. Reason : d]

4/27/2010 9:36:20 AM

hardware

4/27/2010 10:09:11 AM

PHP/MySQL/JavaScript

Realistically I'm becoming super proficient at manipulating Active Directory using PHP. I'm also excellent at screen scraping.

A month ago I was a .NET programmer for a week.

[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 10:24 AM. Reason : .]

4/27/2010 10:21:34 AM

Quote :

"I'm also excellent at screen scraping."

4/27/2010 10:24:49 AM

Speaking of Geocities:

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=1&music=1&url=http://nyt.com

[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 11:24 AM. Reason : .]

4/27/2010 11:24:16 AM

BI

4/27/2010 11:24:47 AM

core infrastructure development and web services, mostly C++

4/27/2010 11:50:00 AM

i dint see qntmgod posting his specialization....are you saying you are qntmgod?

4/27/2010 12:51:09 PM

copy and paste, but not both at the same time.

4/27/2010 12:52:38 PM

do you work for apple now?

4/27/2010 12:53:39 PM

googling software problems and fixing them based on basic internet "hivemind" problem solving abilities and making my parents and girlfriend think i should be running Dell or Apple based on my "technical proficiency" with computers. although now that i have a mac my skills are getting rusty...

4/27/2010 12:55:44 PM

^^^^ probably WPF these days, though i spent a fair amount of time in php/mysql world in the past

[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 1:13 PM. Reason : oh, and also scrum/agile]

4/27/2010 1:11:08 PM

All the major flavors of UNIX(Solaris, HP-UX, AIX)
Linux
Perl
SAN storage
Network security

Reasonable proficiency in Java, PHP, and SQL though I don't actually use them in my work anymore.

4/27/2010 1:16:56 PM

storage area networking in general, san routing specifically. Fibre channel, FC storage arrays (right now i'm good on hds, hpeva, and emc).

Attending meetings and documenting



^ SAN storage is redundant. Stop that

[Edited on April 27, 2010 at 1:21 PM. Reason : ^ part]

4/27/2010 1:21:02 PM

SAN Storage is not to be confused with SAN Networking...


OR IS IT?

4/27/2010 1:30:37 PM

what about NAS?? Its a reverse SAN!

4/27/2010 1:49:44 PM

storage area network storage is better then storage area network networking.

I guess with san storage you could be referring to the storage arrays in which case i would be forced to retract my previous edit. But an array type specialty would be a more appropriate listing (icsci, fc, fcoe, vendor, tape or disk, virtual, etc)

4/27/2010 1:50:57 PM

NAS ? take your silly file level storage else where, we deal in blocks here

4/27/2010 1:53:48 PM

set 'em up

4/27/2010 3:27:46 PM