Windows for 95% of my development. We do work on an iOS app, so I will occasionally jump in to help on that if there is time.

Commute: 5 minutes in rush hour traffic (live 2 miles from job) WorkPlace: Flexible. Have to be in office or available during core working hours. Also have a work remote policy Dress: Casual Food/Drink: Cafeteria on site, a ton of places to get food nearby, Free Coffee/Tea/Cocoa Holidays and vacations Bonuses Work outings (picnics, baseball games, bowling, etc.)

I started learning in 2003 in college. I was always into computers and taking them apart and rebuilding, but never was coding. I begin professionally in 2007 as well, so for 7 years as a profession now. I normally put in 40 hours at work and then 10 to 20 with at home projects and part time work. It is more like 10 hours with family stuff, but sometimes get up to 20.

Same here.. I remember my dad hooking it up after we opened the gifts and spending hours that day playing Mario and Duck Hunt.

Wizards in Winter - Trans-Siberian Orchestra

1. How often do you develop outside of work? Not as often as I would like. I would love to spend more time developing and experimenting outside of the office. Most of my time at home is enjoying my time with my 2 year old. 2. Are the projects you work on personal or intended for commercial use at some point? Most of the projects that I have worked on are personal. There are many things that we think about needing at home for our own use that I mess around with. Most recently I have been throwing together plans for my father in laws business. He needs an inventory and I am in the processing of getting a proposal together to share with him. If he likes it, I can make the basics and then keep improving it for him. I know there are inventory apps out there, but this would be tailored to his needs specifically and only have what he needs.

My previous job, I had an office I shared with one other person, so it was pretty quiet. The non developers were in an open office so it was noisy over there, but we only had to go over there if we had questions for them. My current job has all of us co-located with our Scrum Teams (we have developers and V/V members on the team) so the noise level among the team is minimal. But we are in cubicles with a lot of other people around. So it does get noisy when people have to meet around the others. The noise is not something that bothers me, as I have noise cancelling head phones that I use listening to music all day.

Got a 10 out of 10. Was pretty simple, but it should have been simple for someone that majored in Mathematics in college.

I am currently writing them at my new job. Mainly they are small things that help me with what I am doing instead of having to manually delete logs. I also wrote them at my old job to do the following: Delete a folder on the Build Server, Get Latest Code, Build the code, and then deploy it.

Sure you can. And don't think that being a good programmer means you will never have errors. Even the best still run into issues where they forget to declare a variable or even just forget a ; at the end of a line or a } at the end of a method or a ) after a call. Two years isn't that long and it is best to get some real world programming in (make your own applications at home that you could benefit from using on a daily or weekly basis). I am making a movie DB and i know that others before me have one that i could buy or even get for free.. but I like working on it on the side as it gives me something to do and a feeling of accomplishment.