Author Topic: Any programmers around? (Read 20194 times)

bueller · « **on:** Fri, 16 August 2013, 23:45:19 »

Always interested to talk shop with other programmers, I'm currently being mentored by a local developer and will be transitioning from desktop support to full time coding in the next year or so. Working on some Primavera stuff in Java at the moment, anyone else got any projects on the go?

rowdy · « **Reply #1 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 03:58:57 »

I am employed as a programmer, more or less. Mostly Delphi (don't laugh), Python and Java.

Ultratude · « **Reply #2 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 05:40:55 »

Currently a CS student, and I love programing.

badcop · « **Reply #3 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 06:12:21 »

former CS student. changed my major to take over the family business and i regent it all the time.

bueller · « **Reply #4 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 06:24:07 »

I actually studied CS about a decade ago but found it to be horribly boring on the programming side of things, for some reason now that I'm learning Java I'm really enjoying myself!

Findecanor · « **Reply #5 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 08:06:10 »

Here! I am sure that there are lots of other programmers around here. We care about keyboards because we use them a lot.

Phillip_J_Fry · « **Reply #6 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 08:42:52 »

Quote from: Findecanor on Sat, 17 August 2013, 08:06:10

Here! I am sure that there are lots of other programmers around here. We care about keyboards because we use them a lot.

not all of us (I mean programmers

)
I don't know any other programmers in person that use mechanical keyboards)

belac · « **Reply #7 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:34:29 »

Full time dev here. I also hack on some personal projects in my (limited) spare time.

codyeatworld · « **Reply #8 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:51:24 »

I'm a web developer at a start up company.
I maintain a bunch of Rails websites for the most part. I've been playing around with Go language recently in my free time. I really want to jump into Java at some point too though.

Congrats on the transition! I'm always up for talking shop/code too. I'm usually always on skype or gtalk.

divito · « **Reply #9 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:21:40 »

Wouldn't mind learning one of these days. I know bits and pieces of code for various things from tinkering, but nothing full blown. My problem in regards to learning has always been in the aspect of a purpose. I have nothing to make, therefore no language to investigate, and no functions and problems to learn and overcome.

Phillip_J_Fry · « **Reply #10 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:56:32 »

Quote from: divito on Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:21:40

Wouldn't mind learning one of these days. I know bits and pieces of code for various things from tinkering, but nothing full blown. My problem in regards to learning has always been in the aspect of a purpose. I have nothing to make, therefore no language to investigate, and no functions and problems to learn and overcome.

So just create a goal for yourself:) or you can join some github open source project.

Phillip_J_Fry · « **Reply #11 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:58:08 »

Quote from: codyeatworld on Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:51:24

I'm a web developer at a start up company.

What kind of startup it is? (if it's not a secret)

codyeatworld · « **Reply #12 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 11:22:37 »

Quote from: Phillip_J_Fry on Sat, 17 August 2013, 10:58:08

Quote from: codyeatworld on Sat, 17 August 2013, 09:51:24
I'm a web developer at a start up company.

What kind of startup it is? (if it's not a secret)

A marketing company hired my company hello codes (which is just me) to build out websites for their clients. Their clients are small businesses who want to grow.

It pays the bills usually. I'm trying to do my own thing on the side though.

daerid · « **Reply #13 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 11:26:37 »

Full time developer for Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow)

Most of the guys I work with either have Ducky Shines or Das Keyboards.

JPG · « **Reply #14 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 11:31:16 »

I am a full time developper. I was mainly coding Foxpro (yea yea sucks but I had to) and now transitionning (again) to .NET (CS). I am also doing a lot of SQL with MSSQL and I aim to become a DBA in the next year(s).

I work for a small company in the Healthcare industry. I develop a software to manage the emergencies (the hospital department) and we also develop another software that does some performance analysis based on the data from the main systems in an hospital.

Quite fun job!

codyeatworld · « **Reply #15 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 11:39:31 »

Quote from: daerid on Sat, 17 August 2013, 11:26:37

Full time developer for Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow)

Most of the guys I work with either have Ducky Shines or Das Keyboards.

That is awesome! I use the site daily, I need to be more active and vote/comment more.
How do you like working there?

daerid · « **Reply #16 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 12:04:44 »

Best job I've ever had. They know how to take care of devs :-D

Puddsy · « **Reply #17 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 12:31:44 »

I'm attempting to learn programming, but I'm utterly inept at it.

I'll get there eventually, I've just got to find the right way to learn.

hoggy · « **Reply #18 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 15:29:01 »

Start a small project, something easy. Something you would use.
Add to it everyday.

If you can't think of anything, try writing a program that will create a function block in your chosen language.

Thimplum · « **Reply #19 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 17:16:24 »

Quote from: daerid on Sat, 17 August 2013, 11:26:37

Full time developer for Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow)

Most of the guys I work with either have Ducky Shines or Das Keyboards.

Nice...

I've never had a good experience on SE, but that's because I'm a total Java noob.

dante · « **Reply #20 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 17:54:40 »

Quote from: rowdy on Sat, 17 August 2013, 03:58:57

I am employed as a programmer, more or less. Mostly Delphi (don't laugh), Python and Java.

I'm not laughing; Delphi/Object-Pascal is one of the most beautiful looking programming languages I've ever seen. IMHO C++/Java look hideous in comparison.

I'm currently doing T-SQL/SQL Server/SSIS for ETL/Data Mining/Reporting. I would like to transition into UI developer stuff but there is so much to know that I have no idea where to start. There are so many kids doing solid work in their teen's I have no idea how I could compete with them...

hashbaz · « **Reply #21 on:** Sat, 17 August 2013, 18:10:47 »

I develop tools for technical artists and animators in C++ and Python. There are a few mech users at my workplace. A few I have converted and a few have gotten into it on their own. And we have a lot of engineers who use Kineses for ergo reasons without being aware of the superior key action (I was in this category for a year or two before I got into keyboards).

rowdy · « **Reply #22 on:** Sun, 18 August 2013, 04:09:26 »

Quote from: dante on Sat, 17 August 2013, 17:54:40

Quote from: rowdy on Sat, 17 August 2013, 03:58:57
I am employed as a programmer, more or less. Mostly Delphi (don't laugh), Python and Java.

I'm not laughing; Delphi/Object-Pascal is one of the most beautiful looking programming languages I've ever seen. IMHO C++/Java look hideous in comparison.

I'm currently doing T-SQL/SQL Server/SSIS for ETL/Data Mining/Reporting. I would like to transition into UI developer stuff but there is so much to know that I have no idea where to start. There are so many kids doing solid work in their teen's I have no idea how I could compete with them...

Delphi/Object Pascal seems to just about stay in the top 20 [/url-http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html]Tiobe Index[/url].

iri · « **Reply #23 on:** Tue, 20 August 2013, 05:37:09 »

Quote from: daerid on Sat, 17 August 2013, 11:26:37

Full time developer for Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow)

got a new job recently?

i'm a lead developer for a social project backed by one of russia's richest biilionaires. creating anti-corruption / anti-fraud / pro-honesty community to help develop people's everyday life and make communication with authorities easier.

jameslr · « **Reply #24 on:** Tue, 20 August 2013, 07:48:30 »

I am not strictly a programmer, my official title is technical analyst. My duties look a lot more like a system administrator, but I do write a lot of code in languages like perl, shell (sh, ksh, bash, etc). I also do some programming and scripting on the windows side with C#.Net, Powershell, vbscript, and DOS batch. My primary duties are managing an enterprise scale monitoring environment for our operations team (HP Operations Manager suite).

I have been interested in programming since I started getting into computers at age 12. I try to keep my knowledge up there, but it's difficult without any real projects to keep it going. These days the only programming practice I get is through the scripts that I write on a regular basis for work.

bigx333 · « **Reply #25 on:** Tue, 20 August 2013, 07:50:05 »

I'm the Lead Computer Engineer (still not sure what this actually means lol) for a international VoIP company, in practice I do a lot of debugging and non-repetitive SYSADM work (basically setting up the environments that need to be replicated by the actual SYSOPS) but I spend most of my time designing/coding mission critical systems in C, Erlang and Python and dealing with scale issues (specially lately). I always wanted to work with games development but ended up in telecom, luckily I flipping love my job

)

daerid · « **Reply #26 on:** Thu, 22 August 2013, 01:04:15 »

Quote from: iri link=topic=47167.msg1005696#msg1005696

got a new job recently?

April 1st

ITzNybble · « **Reply #27 on:** Thu, 22 August 2013, 08:35:28 »

Software Engineer for a big healthcare solutions company based in Kansas City. A big company but for some reason though I am known as the keyboard guy around my cube space

Thimplum · « **Reply #28 on:** Thu, 22 August 2013, 19:34:33 »

Quote from: daerid on Thu, 22 August 2013, 01:04:15

Quote from: iri link=topic=47167.msg1005696#msg1005696
got a new job recently?

April 1st

a "new job"?

belac · « **Reply #29 on:** Thu, 22 August 2013, 20:17:00 »

Quote from: ITzNybble on Thu, 22 August 2013, 08:35:28

Software Engineer for a big healthcare solutions company based in Kansas City. A big company but for some reason though I am known as the keyboard guy around my cube space

If you work where I'm pretty sure you do, a guy I work with interviewed out there recently. He said it seems like a really cool company to work for. I'm a developer for a "medium" healthcare solutions company

lcs · « **Reply #30 on:** Thu, 22 August 2013, 20:18:29 »

I'm a CS student. I should program.

daerid · « **Reply #31 on:** Fri, 23 August 2013, 00:19:46 »

Quote from: Thimplum on Thu, 22 August 2013, 19:34:33

a "new job"?

?? I'm confused now

evolyn · « **Reply #32 on:** Fri, 23 August 2013, 08:48:26 »

no just old nap

Grimey · « **Reply #33 on:** Fri, 23 August 2013, 10:22:35 »

C#, F#, C++, Objective-C for work. Erlang, Perl when at home if I get the urge to code on my own which doesn't happen much these days.

Stevenator21 · « **Reply #34 on:** Sat, 24 August 2013, 21:38:16 »

I am a young programmer, only a mid-teens teenager and love Java. Would love to take CS in College.

Rafen · « **Reply #35 on:** Sat, 24 August 2013, 21:44:01 »

I am a CS student with a concentration in Computer Networking but I program at my current job and also design websites. C++, Java, and VB are the languages I use at work and home depending on what I'm trying to do.

vasouv · « **Reply #36 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 03:35:18 »

IT student here, I do code for fun and I have to do a pretty nice project in JavaFX. Mainly I've messed with Java (thus wanting to code in JavaFX), but I also have a bit of experience with C#.

meiosis · « **Reply #37 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 04:00:47 »

Back in high school I worked part time at Norton (Antivirus) during Jr and Senior Year

.

As with most antivirus, there must be hate around

But I work with ring0 rootkits, Unix code mostly

UDP/TCP connections and the likes..

I suck at Java and know my way around C++

Sadly I'm now Premed

SeriouSSpotS · « **Reply #38 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 06:57:02 »

I am a CS student, going into my second year and I love programming

affect656 · « **Reply #39 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 07:06:08 »

CS major that dropped out to enlist. I just really hated java, now I do some sysadmin work with occasional scripting

daerid · « **Reply #40 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 10:00:13 »

Bums me out that Java is such a staple in CS courses. There are so many better languages out there.

pixel5 · « **Reply #41 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 10:19:34 »

I am a front-end PHP developer.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #42 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 11:59:53 »

Quote from: daerid on Sun, 25 August 2013, 10:00:13

Bums me out that Java is such a staple in CS courses. There are so many better languages out there.

It's about ubiquity though.. hrmm....

belac · « **Reply #43 on:** Sun, 25 August 2013, 16:25:28 »

Quote from: daerid on Sun, 25 August 2013, 10:00:13

Bums me out that Java is such a staple in CS courses. There are so many better languages out there.

Joel Spolsky better or more practical better? Given your employer I guess it could both ;-)

vyshane · « **Reply #44 on:** Mon, 26 August 2013, 07:44:01 »

I'm a web and iOS developer. Just got a new gig where I'll get to do some Android development as well. It'll be fun

danny · « **Reply #45 on:** Mon, 26 August 2013, 11:52:03 »

I'm also a CS student and I had the luck of having Java only in one course

I love programming and that's probably the reason for my keyboard addiction

Most of the time I program in C++ or Python, but I love to try new languages! Go is next on the list.

daerid · « **Reply #46 on:** Mon, 26 August 2013, 16:56:30 »

Quote from: Grimey on Fri, 23 August 2013, 10:22:35

C#, F#, C++, Objective-C for work.

I'm so, so sorry

daerid · « **Reply #47 on:** Mon, 26 August 2013, 16:58:22 »

Quote from: belac on Sun, 25 August 2013, 16:25:28

Joel Spolsky better or more practical better? Given your employer I guess it could both ;-)

I've disliked Java for a long, long time. Ruby as well. But then again, one of my areas of interest is language design and compiler theory, so I'm kind of a purist.

Now, the Java runtime.. that's a pretty slick piece of software, and some great languages have been built on top of it. But Java itself just feels half-finished.

JPG · « **Reply #48 on:** Mon, 26 August 2013, 16:59:44 »

Quote from: daerid on Mon, 26 August 2013, 16:58:22

Quote from: belac on Sun, 25 August 2013, 16:25:28
Joel Spolsky better or more practical better? Given your employer I guess it could both ;-)

I've disliked Java for a long, long time. Ruby as well. But then again, one of my areas of interest is language design and compiler theory, so I'm kind of a purist.

Now, the Java runtime.. that's a pretty slick piece of software, and some great languages have been built on top of it. But Java itself just feels half-finished.

And what do you consider a great language and why?

daerid · « **Reply #49 on:** Mon, 26 August 2013, 17:05:02 »

The two off the top of my head that I've really liked are Python and F#. From a language standpoint, I really like Python's consistency. Sure it's got it's quirks (all practical languages do), but for the most part it's remarkably consistent.

F# I really like mainly because of it's brevity and clarity (this actually holds true for most ML based languages). The code is remarkably succinct, yet maintains expressiveness and readability.

Both languages have a seriously minimal amount of noise (extraneous characters and constructs like curly braces or begin/end blocks). I really, really like indentation for scope delineation, as it makes the language eminently readable with very small amounts of deviation from one programmer to another, since basic formatting style is enforced at the language level.

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Author Topic: Any programmers around? (Read 20194 times)