Wednesday, March 9, 2011

On Skills that I am Not Very Fond of

Sometimes one has to do professional things (shameful things) and then deny doing them to no end. Paul Venezia enumerates such a trait:
Veteran Unix admin trait No. 8: We know more about Windows than we'll ever let on
For me things that I know but would never list on my Resume lest swarms of recruiting drones would fall upon me [their cognitive abilities/reading proficiency extend only as far as looking up buzzwords by hitting Ctrl+F in Word] are:
  • Perl scripting on Win32
  • Java, Swing and servlets
  • LAMP webapps (P is Perl in this case)
  • PHP
  • GUI apps in general.
In a pinch when I want to secure a job (maybe it's 5 minutes from home) I may elect to flog such skills and sweeten the deal for my clients.

-ulianov