Your favorite programming job....
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...one of my friends did payment processing for one of those... he said they filmed upstairs and had the coding monkeys in the basement... :laugh:
Mate of mine made a couple of films to pay of his debts after getting divorced. He got into it after doing escort work to try to earn a bit of extra cash. I didn't ask him what the IT department was like.
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Currently WCF, WPF, Silverlight and learning HTML5 at the mo. Getting a Windows Phone soon and loading Win 8 (not managed to achieve it yet) so you could add them into the mix as well.
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Metro RSSNorm .net wrote:
Currently WFC, WPF, Silverlight and learning HTML5 at the mo.
What the foundation is WFC? Is that a typo for WCF? :)
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Norm .net wrote:
Currently WFC, WPF, Silverlight and learning HTML5 at the mo.
What the foundation is WFC? Is that a typo for WCF? :)
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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I worked for 8 months or so at a Telecomm VAS provider. I had to re-write most of their servers in Erlang on FreeBSD and CentOS 4.x, that was a beautiful challenge and it exposed me to a completely different paradigm. The other job I rate very highly was when I worked as a technology lead for a super specialized plastic pipe manufacturer (who has since gone into the abyss of failed business because its owners lost money on side projects in the stock market). I had to work (and design because the Department head declined his posting 4 days before he showed up so I inherited his position's powers and duties but not the income :doh:) on everything from PLC & Micro-controllers all the way up to Websites. That level of data integration was incredibly enlightening.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
I had to re-write most of their servers in Erlang on FreeBSD and CentOS 4.x, that was a beautiful challenge and it exposed me to a completely different paradigm.
It's ok tell the true, nobody is watching. :)
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Let's have it -- what was your favorite programming job?
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
You go first.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
I had to re-write most of their servers in Erlang on FreeBSD and CentOS 4.x, that was a beautiful challenge and it exposed me to a completely different paradigm.
It's ok tell the true, nobody is watching. :)
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Metro RSSWell, the challenge was beautiful. Note, I don't work there anymore ;) I absolutely loathed the people I had to work for and a few of those I had to work with.
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...one of my friends did payment processing for one of those... he said they filmed upstairs and had the coding monkeys in the basement... :laugh:
One job I had involved billing and such for a phonesex provider.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
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Uhm, prove it. Show us some samples of your work. :-D
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The KSS rules preclude it. But, a long time ago, I did some testing for a soft-core site in Hungary; I got the work through a friend who was rooting one of the artists. It was just nuddy-pictures and stuff; pretty much the direct early magazine -> web type site. But I did /test/ the site.
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One job I had involved billing and such for a phonesex provider.
Did they keep you locked up in a basement as well? :laugh:
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Let's have it -- what was your favorite programming job?
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
I’d like to work with embedded systems and ANCI C++. The project should be developing AI, systems control and navigation for a NASA deep space exploration drone with a fusion engine. This will make me happy.
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Let's have it -- what was your favorite programming job?
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
The one I have now, I can get regular training, I get to try "new" stuff all the time, build protypes oh yeah and code too!
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Currently WCF, WPF, Silverlight and learning HTML5 at the mo. Getting a Windows Phone soon and loading Win 8 (not managed to achieve it yet) so you could add them into the mix as well.
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loading Win 8 (not managed to achieve it yet)
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I’d like to work with embedded systems and ANCI C++. The project should be developing AI, systems control and navigation for a NASA deep space exploration drone with a fusion engine. This will make me happy.
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I'd settle for being Salma Hayek's love monkey who codes her website on the side.
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Let's have it -- what was your favorite programming job?
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
Writing games and mobile apps in my spare time. The pays sucks so maybe I should classify it as more hobby than job. For day jobs I'd have to pick my current one. It's mostly web work and I've yet to feel the burning desire to strangle a coworker. In previous jobs there was always somebody who needed a large does of that. I think the people make more of the difference than the work tasks themselves.
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Let's have it -- what was your favorite programming job?
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
It wasn't a job, it was just for fun, but the first CodeProject Chrome Extension I made. Why?* First attempts at a Chrome Extension.
- Never had used JQuery or JQueryUI before (or even had looked at any of it).
Found it a challenge and rewarding....... Workwise, again nothing fancy, but I wrote a simple well testing calculation and tracking software that was used by the first platform I worked on. That was the first app I wrote that was used by all the shifts on the platform to make their life easier and I created it while teaching myself with VB3! I did it for fun and to make the guys life easier, and did get a recognition bonus for it was good considering I was still a trainee :) (more beer tokens!)
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- Never had used JQuery or JQueryUI before (or even had looked at any of it).
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... QA for a pron site.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Just an in-and-out job contract?
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Let's have it -- what was your favorite programming job?
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
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Just an in-and-out job contract?
It was an /instructional/ assignment shall we say. :laugh:
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Let's have it -- what was your favorite programming job?
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
I'd have to day my favorite was working on a submarine navigation subsystem years back. We used C to interface to all the sensors and ADA to display pretty pictures to the user. Taught me all about the importance of getting the interfaces right :) The team was small and so I had a chance to work at pretty much all levels.
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... QA for a pron site.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
I really hope you didn't find any bugs.
