Awesome programming jobs
-
Scott Dorman wrote:
corralling tro
*Cough*
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
Corralling, not slaying. That's your job and nobody would dream of stepping on your claws.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
-
Most of us have average, maintenance-type programming jobs. While they mostly pay well, they don't make for legendary status. If you are one of the few lucky ones to have an "awesome" jobs envied by the masses of programmers, tell us a bit about it here.......
I work in the IT/programming dept of a small company that is a large part of the music industry, tracking concert dates, tour histories, managers, record labels, recording studios etc. It's still just databases, web sites and in-house apps, but the data is interesting, the people are all awesome and the job has a ton of perks. - Come in when you like and leave when you like. My supervisor gets in at 6:00am and my co-worker usually arrives sometime between 11:00am and midday. - *Very* relaxed dress code. - Streaming internet music all day long. - Occasional opportunities to meet famous/interesting people or get tickets/passes to shows.
The StartPage Randomizer | The Windows Cheerleader | Twitter
-
Scott Dorman wrote:
corralling tro
*Cough*
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
Trollslayer wrote:
*Cough*
Sorry...only the bad trolls...and (as your CP name implies) you deal with them after they've been caught. :)
Scott Dorman
Microsoft® MVP - Visual C# | MCPD President - Tampa Bay IASA [Blog][Articles][Forum Guidelines]
Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Banzai
-
Hi, my name is Chris and I run The Code Project. My job rocks.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Surely that's maintenance now? :-D
-
Surely that's maintenance now? :-D
Yeah right ;) Even I've finally stopped making statements to my dev team that start with "when we've finished the infrastructure..."
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
-
The Man wrote:
elaborate a little on what 'running code project' entails?
Herding us cats. (Just checking that you know you are on The Code Project and that the guy who answered you is the head honcho main dude numero uno.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
-
Are you one of those government "programmers"?
MrPlankton
(bad guy)"Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go."
(good guy)"Which is where?"
(bad guy)"To a responsible future in a properly managed world."
Dean Koontz, The Good Guy -
Yeah right ;) Even I've finally stopped making statements to my dev team that start with "when we've finished the infrastructure..."
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I've heard a rumour that you now unleash the Ninja Attack Hamsters to keep your minions, sorry employees, in line. Genetically modified assassins with cute furry faces - and I'm talking about the hamsters here now.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
-
Don't worry about it. He's talking about users of users group. Not you.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
-
Well, right now I have a very interesting, good paying job. It scares me to death. I am working with a company that (among other things) converts code from one language to another (actually a couple others). We have a compiler and code emitter (C# output). This is a little busted, and not so easy to fix, so we are building a suite of tools that work around it. The company are letting me take the long term approach (it's a couple year project, and we will be re-using the technology to translate other programs). I am able to affect the way the company runs. I have pretty free reign over how my team does things. There are lots of interesting problems to sole. They are free with the technologies they let me pursue. They let me work from home a lot. I get to run a pretty good group of people. Why am I scared? Because I could always loose it, than I would have to find another job, and it will not have all these perks.
Silver member by constant and unflinching longevity.
-
I've heard a rumour that you now unleash the Ninja Attack Hamsters to keep your minions, sorry employees, in line. Genetically modified assassins with cute furry faces - and I'm talking about the hamsters here now.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Not saying anything. And neither, mysteriously enough, will the devs. :suss:
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
-
That's a tough one. The best I can do is give you a rundown of a typical day (or maybe multiple typical days combined). First, a day doesn't start and end, it just blurs. The site and the visitors never sleep and there is always someone, somewhere, (sometimes human, sometimes not) keeping an eye on things, sending alerts that need to be checked, trying to break things, trying to fix things they've broken, or trying to do something we never expected but which seem a Good Idea - if only I could this the spanner for them. Needless to say email is a huge part of my day (200-300 a day is about standard, but that doesn't include webmaster emails or spam). The admin systems on the site do a reasonable job of keeping me up to date on what's going on as well, so a fair bit of time wandering around the halls just checking the 'feel'. The Code Project is a massive system. You see about 10% of it, with the other 90% being very carefully laid out plumbing that ensure we're reasonably future-proofed for load and new features. On top of the application itself there is an entire network and system infrastructure that is constantly screaming away at full speed. So: emails, lots of them. Checking the site, checking errors, checking alerts, and then catching up with everyone to see how things are going with the team. There are 8 developers in our team and we are all constantly, terminally, busy with new features, tweaks, complete new projects, maintainence and bugs. Our TODO list is mammoth and getting bigger each week because the more we do the more we want to do and the requests we get and ideas we dream up after one too many hot chocolates means that the only way we can move forward is to very carefully organise all the things that need to be done into well defined projects with realistic (and very, very flexible) timelines. A huge part of my time is spent simply juggling the tasks of everyone, doing code reviews, and making sure everything is running as smoothly as possible and all in the right direction. I now do more management than coding, but considering how much coding I still do it's still a good balance. Once all the immediate emergencies have been dealt with, or pressing emails answered, or latest ideas organised and feed into the machine, it's time to dig into the pile of Stuff To Do. Everything from discussing with Sean how we manage our content and make our systems better for you guys, to dealing with legal issues to ensure we, as a site, and you guys, as authors, are protected, to dealing wi
-
Do you not see the size of your company's market shrinking as languages become more and more interoperable?
I've only been here for 6 months, and only on this project, so no, I have not seen it. They are marketing aggressively, since they have built up the current team: The 4GL language we are translating is not interoperable, and is no longer supported, so in this niche, there is no chance of the customers staying with their current language. They are working into Europe, as well as local and federal gov in the US.
Silver member by constant and unflinching longevity.
-
That's a tough one. The best I can do is give you a rundown of a typical day (or maybe multiple typical days combined). First, a day doesn't start and end, it just blurs. The site and the visitors never sleep and there is always someone, somewhere, (sometimes human, sometimes not) keeping an eye on things, sending alerts that need to be checked, trying to break things, trying to fix things they've broken, or trying to do something we never expected but which seem a Good Idea - if only I could this the spanner for them. Needless to say email is a huge part of my day (200-300 a day is about standard, but that doesn't include webmaster emails or spam). The admin systems on the site do a reasonable job of keeping me up to date on what's going on as well, so a fair bit of time wandering around the halls just checking the 'feel'. The Code Project is a massive system. You see about 10% of it, with the other 90% being very carefully laid out plumbing that ensure we're reasonably future-proofed for load and new features. On top of the application itself there is an entire network and system infrastructure that is constantly screaming away at full speed. So: emails, lots of them. Checking the site, checking errors, checking alerts, and then catching up with everyone to see how things are going with the team. There are 8 developers in our team and we are all constantly, terminally, busy with new features, tweaks, complete new projects, maintainence and bugs. Our TODO list is mammoth and getting bigger each week because the more we do the more we want to do and the requests we get and ideas we dream up after one too many hot chocolates means that the only way we can move forward is to very carefully organise all the things that need to be done into well defined projects with realistic (and very, very flexible) timelines. A huge part of my time is spent simply juggling the tasks of everyone, doing code reviews, and making sure everything is running as smoothly as possible and all in the right direction. I now do more management than coding, but considering how much coding I still do it's still a good balance. Once all the immediate emergencies have been dealt with, or pressing emails answered, or latest ideas organised and feed into the machine, it's time to dig into the pile of Stuff To Do. Everything from discussing with Sean how we manage our content and make our systems better for you guys, to dealing with legal issues to ensure we, as a site, and you guys, as authors, are protected, to dealing wi
Yow! Amazing what you write when you're trapped in an airport. Did you submit this as an article as well? ;P
-------------- TTFN - Kent
-
Most of us have average, maintenance-type programming jobs. While they mostly pay well, they don't make for legendary status. If you are one of the few lucky ones to have an "awesome" jobs envied by the masses of programmers, tell us a bit about it here.......
my friend andy at ms has an awesome programming job that i would love to do (if i was a 3d graphics guru like he is) ... but i had lunch with him at the campus today so does that count? :)
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
-
That's a tough one. The best I can do is give you a rundown of a typical day (or maybe multiple typical days combined). First, a day doesn't start and end, it just blurs. The site and the visitors never sleep and there is always someone, somewhere, (sometimes human, sometimes not) keeping an eye on things, sending alerts that need to be checked, trying to break things, trying to fix things they've broken, or trying to do something we never expected but which seem a Good Idea - if only I could this the spanner for them. Needless to say email is a huge part of my day (200-300 a day is about standard, but that doesn't include webmaster emails or spam). The admin systems on the site do a reasonable job of keeping me up to date on what's going on as well, so a fair bit of time wandering around the halls just checking the 'feel'. The Code Project is a massive system. You see about 10% of it, with the other 90% being very carefully laid out plumbing that ensure we're reasonably future-proofed for load and new features. On top of the application itself there is an entire network and system infrastructure that is constantly screaming away at full speed. So: emails, lots of them. Checking the site, checking errors, checking alerts, and then catching up with everyone to see how things are going with the team. There are 8 developers in our team and we are all constantly, terminally, busy with new features, tweaks, complete new projects, maintainence and bugs. Our TODO list is mammoth and getting bigger each week because the more we do the more we want to do and the requests we get and ideas we dream up after one too many hot chocolates means that the only way we can move forward is to very carefully organise all the things that need to be done into well defined projects with realistic (and very, very flexible) timelines. A huge part of my time is spent simply juggling the tasks of everyone, doing code reviews, and making sure everything is running as smoothly as possible and all in the right direction. I now do more management than coding, but considering how much coding I still do it's still a good balance. Once all the immediate emergencies have been dealt with, or pressing emails answered, or latest ideas organised and feed into the machine, it's time to dig into the pile of Stuff To Do. Everything from discussing with Sean how we manage our content and make our systems better for you guys, to dealing with legal issues to ensure we, as a site, and you guys, as authors, are protected, to dealing wi
Gee. I thought all you did all day was sit around playing mah jong and occasionally cutting/pasting a bit of VBScript you found on a pr0n site to add new features to CP. Oh, and personally answering all my whiny emails... :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
-
Gee. I thought all you did all day was sit around playing mah jong and occasionally cutting/pasting a bit of VBScript you found on a pr0n site to add new features to CP. Oh, and personally answering all my whiny emails... :-D
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
It's javascript, not VBScript. Sheesh! I'm so misunderstood...
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
-
Yow! Amazing what you write when you're trapped in an airport. Did you submit this as an article as well? ;P
-------------- TTFN - Kent
I'm incredibly productive when forced to be by the painful monotony that is LA airport. BTW - I flew what must have been the oldest plane in American Airlines' fleet. So old that we had to stop halfway to rebuild part of the engine. And yes, I wish I was joking (hence the stuck-in-LAX bit)
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
-
Most of us have average, maintenance-type programming jobs. While they mostly pay well, they don't make for legendary status. If you are one of the few lucky ones to have an "awesome" jobs envied by the masses of programmers, tell us a bit about it here.......
Chris has us all beat, but I do love my job. I work on RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) every day in Silverlight (and sometimes Flex). In other words, I write software with a big emphasis on communicating with humans, things like usability and just plain polish. It's always fun to see your software running on random people's computers (and even more for them to be excited about it). :)
-
It's javascript, not VBScript. Sheesh! I'm so misunderstood...
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm so misunderstood...
True. But not unappreciated by those of us who have been here a while. ;)
Chris Maunder wrote:
It's javascript, not VBScript
I still have a copy of the original... somewhere around here.:suss:
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"