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:
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.
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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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)
Found a cool way to do this last night. It could have saved me a bit of time. Clickety[^].
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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.
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet! Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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.
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Let's have it -- what was your favorite programming job?
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
That would be hard to identify, because most of them have all had great aspects. The "figure out how much ice to pack with the chocolate based on NOAA weather predictions" was a favorite because it was cool (hahahaha) and short. The entertainer management system for adult entertainment clubs was a favorite for, erm, obvious reasons The boat yard management software was a favorite because I had to work with a lot of people and it was great to see efficiency improvements The satellite design stuff is a favorite because it is plain and simple awesome technology The educational gaming stuff was a favorite because it's fun to work with artists and I revolutionized the development process (very ego gratifying) I guess they are all my favorites, but if I were to rank them, the satellite design stuff is first and the adult club stuff is a very close second. :) Marc
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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
so you were paid to poke around :laugh:
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Let's have it -- what was your favorite programming job?
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
When I ran my own company writing edutainment software AND producing the content for it. My business partner and I lost money (in real, money had to be paid back, terms and salary we never gave ourselves), but both agree we'd do it over again if we had the chance.
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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
Wisconsin Fried Chicken.
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Let's have it -- what was your favorite programming job?
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
My favorite job was the first one where I actually got PAID, plus it was interesting and useful. For a professor at my college, I programmed a Macintosh (circa 1993) to talk to a piece of custom equipment which measured radiation in radon gas samples taken from aircraft. Pretty simple stuff by my standards now, but man was I proud when I got that $600 check! I bought myself a sweet new laser printer (which turned out to be a piece of junk, but that's another story...) The real lesson that I learned was this: I was "rejected" from getting a work-study job because somehow they thought my parents earned too much money (which was BS!). So, I went around asking professor if they needed any help and sure enough, this guy in the physics department needed some code written. Ask and ye shall receive!
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Let's have it -- what was your favorite programming job?
Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart
My favorite was when I was hired in a development team (back in 98-99) as the only MS-oriented developer on a team of Java & Oracle developers. My task was to write a distributed, n-tier program that would do what HP OpenView would do. The company needed the app for monitoring its telco systems, and thought by having the program written in-house, it would 1) better fit their needs, and 2) help increase their value as a startup by owning the code. I wrote the distributed app using VB6, DCOM, SQL Server, and a fairly decent knowledge of SNMP and IP networking. I took a lot of good-natured ribbing from Java developers for bewing only a "VB6 programmer", but in the end, I was done in six months. The app worked perfect (including text-to-speech and speech-to-text at the operator's console) and did everything HP OpenView did that we would use, and some things it didn't. The middleware ran as real (not wrapped) services on NT4. I exported the object design as PTL files, and three Java developers used Rational Rose to take thos PTL files, and reverse engineer the app in Java. Three develoeprs couldn't even come close over the next year, and gave up. I loved the task I was given, it was a great group of folks, and it was before the tech bubble burst. Unfortunately, since the company was doing so well, the investors brought in some NationsBank executives to take over running the business from "the techies", and before long, the company met its eventual fate. That said, I have enjoyed almost all software development jobs I've been on, and where I am at for the last 7 years (RouteMatch Software) is pretty close to my favorite. Great company, great co-workers, challenging and interesting programming. Also, in developing my "job enjoyability metrics", I use as a baseline when I used to crop tobacco and pick cucumbers as a teenager.
