My own career path is unusual. I left the Marines in 1996 and skipped college to go work as a Sys Admin for EDS. I spent 1 year travelling the world "deploying" ( aka sneakernet ) a unix / windows client server system. It was a painful year as the deployment was only quarter baked but I gained a deep respect for how easy it should have been if only SOMEONE had bothered to properly automate it. I then switched over to development.... learned PowerBuilder, ANSI C, Delphi, VB6, Unix Shell, Informix SQL and while I was an OK application developer, I was nothing special. I quickly latched onto a glaring hole in the build / install niche and went as deep as I could at the expense of my more traditional development skills.
Over the last few years I've been playing catch up with .NET and I feel that I have a pretty good grasp ( I've been mostly working on custom Build / Install - Tools for the last year including IsWiX ) but I'm still weak in OOD and have a lot to learn still. So I'm trying to be great at both and I doubt there are more then a few people in the state of Texas that can say they are doing that. Anyone who's trying to be great at .NET doesn't want to touch MSI with a ten foot pole and most people who are decent in installs don't have a strong development background. Oh well... end rant. Email me if'd you like your quarter back. :-) Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: "Goryuk, Alex" <agor...@rosettastone.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 8:47:38 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn Yup that pretty much sums it up :) On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Christopher Painter wrote: > > I agree with you Bob except for one problem. I've found so few setup >experts > who also have the broader application development experience. Too few > developers want to specialize in this space. > > Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves > attention? E-Mail Me > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 7:32:20 AM > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapping and Burn > > On 02-Sep-10 06:13, Pally Sandher wrote: >> I have personally fixed things like that myself. Last year one of our dev's >> decided to implement the use of CAPICOM for some basic password encryption& >>MD5 >> >> checking& thought it was OK to tell me "just self-register the CAPICOM DLL >> in > >> the installer& it'll work". He was also recommending we use an out-dated >> version of the discontinued CAPICOM containing some known security >> vulnerabilities. I re-wrote his code using the CryptoAPI completely removing >>the >> >> need for the CAPICOM redistributable. Incidentally he no longer works for us >>any >> >> more. >> >> When the product developers make stupid decisions which impact upon setup >> development, call them on it or be prepared to put up with more of the same >> until the end of time. > > This is why it's important for "setup developers" to be developers in > their own right, so they can speak with authority and, when necessary, > write code outside of setup to "lend a hand." > > -- > sig://boB > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
