The training we lack

Posted on March 21st, 2008. Filed under: IT Tags: ,

A while ago I’ve posted my thoughts about the implications of work experience demands; to put it briefly, work experience does not guarantee qualification, as this experience follows the business agenda of the company where you work, which may be repetitive, random, and probably insufficient. At the same time, home experience, which can happen in a systematic manner, away from such influence, is rarely considered. In any case, it is hard to measure a kind of knowledge that often changes fast. The lack of such measures leads the industry to sometimes adopt esoteric means to assess qualification.

Setting up a wxWidgets project on Windows using NetBeans 6.0 is quite harder than doing the same on Linux, but if you want to be able to use the powerful features of NetBeans instead of smaller IDEs like wxDev-cpp, here is a quick guide to setup your environment.