My last day of freedom...

[Nemanja Trifunovic]

My former boss worked at Cardinal Health for two years. Don't know if she liked it or not.

Programming Blog utf8-cpp

[David Stone]

It looks ugly. ;P

[Shog9 0]

You should have seen the code for faking viewstate...  X|

Citizen 20.1.01

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

[Big Daddy Farang]

jhaga wrote:

I thought you were getting married.

That's what I thought as well. :~

BDF A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. -- Moliere

[David Stone]

Not quite there yet. One of these days, though... :)

[David Stone]

Heh. No thanks. BTW, I added a keyboard shortcut for QuickRefresh. Although I'm unhappy with the finger acrobatics it takes to press Ctrl+Alt+R, so I'm going to change it to Alt+Q (for QuickRefresh).

[Shog9 0]

Sounds good. That doesn't currently do anything in FF or any of my installed extensions (unlike a few of our other shortcuts...), so it'll be handy. :)

Citizen 20.1.01

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

[Ed Poore]

Prepare for the paper-work, seriously the amount medial companies have to produce is scary.  The company[^] I've done some consulting and contracting for are invovled in some pretty pioneering medical electronics and if something comes in with a faulty board you can almost guarantee that you'll fill half an A4 ring binder of paperwork by the time that board leaves the company (even if it was only a blown capacitor). Luckily because I was an outside and was so cutting-edge that it was only proof of concept stuff I didn't need to produce any documentation.  The last big project I did for them before I left for the World Championships & the stem cell transplant had one requirement: sell the idea to management :rolleyes:. Got one hell of a shock when the day of the Christmas party my boss had scheduled a demo for senior management just saying that it was just going to be a really cool demonstration of something and would they mind awfully turning up.  Because it was the last official day people had come in to tidy their workplaces etc ready for after Christmas and word got around about something cool that I'd been working on (they knew by this time I got the interesting projects) so after setting up the system in another conference room I went in to join my boss and found the whole company in there (~50 employees at the time, including the secretary). Boss got up and explained what I'd been doing and then said "Ed will now explain what he did...", talk about being being shoved in at the deep-end.  I made up some waffle on the fly (most of them were not software people so didn't care) then over to the laptop and just proceeded to fire off a £70,000 2.5T(esla) magnet over the internet through a web-page and they heard and saw the coil fire over a web-cam feed (provided by a Lego VisionCommand camera on a Mindstorms robot of all things, the looks of despair I got when I turned up with Lego and proceeded to built a holder for the web-cam, and getting paid for it :-\). Seriously though, the point of that story was that I was lucky enough to be too far ahead of the came that I needed to document and verify things, test them etc because they realised that for what I wanted the system wasn't designed to do (I basically had to re-write all their control software in C# before I could even begin firing this system, because the existing control software doesn't have an external API

[Vikram A Punathambekar]

Cool, David. Congrats!

Cheers, Vikram.

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The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.

[Gary R Wheeler]

David Stone wrote:

I'm 21 and a "senior" software engineer

Been there. I worked through college for a consulting company. When I graduated, I had four years experience as a programmer on real projects. A lot of my fellow students had either not worked at all or had only done little throwaway projects during their internships. I ended up in a 'senior engineer' slot based on that background. The only bad part of it was the treatment I got from some of the older engineers. It took a long time to earn their respect. They assumed that, since my degree was only a year or two old, I didn't know anything worthwhile. I remember giving a briefing at the local Air Force base a couple years after I got out of school. I had a group of about 30 officers, department heads, and senior developers. I was discussing automated test case generation for Ada software. One of the gray heads in the back popped up and asked "what the hell's this Ada crap good for anyway? I'll bet I can do more in JOVIAL with less code..." Based on little comments he had made during the main part of the briefing, I had the feeling part of this guy's agenda was to discredit the young punk at the front. I spent ten minutes responding to him, citing information from the Ada design document, case studies, and the like. It was all extemporaneous. I waited for just the right amount of glaze over his eyes before I quit. Good luck, and don't let the old farts (like I've now become :-O) get you down.

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