Don't remember if I mentioned this...

[Lox]

But I'm officially a code monkey like a bunch of you guys. haha

I finally made the move from QA to Development a couple weeks ago. I'm working in a group that does Application development using C++ 6.0 and a little bit of C# for newer pieces. The app itself is your basic VB front-end with COM C++ handling the business logic for all of the processes.

It's a huge application though. Many, many pieces and many, many places to screw stuff up. So, should be fun.

Just thought I'd make the announcement so you can all laugh at the newbie.

[Tessian]

Haha...

That's cool man, congrats. I love doing programming on occassion (PHP mostly) but I could never do it full time... I lasted 1 semester in Comp Sci before I switched to IST.

[Julius Seeker]

Speaking on the gaming industry: Well one thing about programmers is you can never find enough of them. Every gaming studio (not willing to shell out obscene amounts of cash) is short on them. Good QA guys are hard to come by as well, they burn out quickly and mostly goof off working at less than 50% of their capability... Though the same can be said about art staff, I seriously think the average artist works 4 hours out of a 9 hour day. Then again, everything always seems to remain quite profitable in the software industry for the most part.... at least up here where you can get government subsidies for everything.

[SineSwiper]

What kind of application?

I'm almost to the point of starting a HFC Performance Mgmt System (calling it HyPerMapS) It will link together all of our different monitoring systems, map out customers via Google Maps API, give out an outage/degradation report, etc. This will be a 6 month project, utilizing Perl, MySQL, Oracle, HTML, JavaScript on a dual quad-core system.

I'm pretty excited about it.

[Lox]

It's used in the UPS package centers to manage the data on the handhelds the drivers carry around. The people who work in the center use it for printing reports, getting data onto and off of the handhelds, sending data to other external apps, etc.

[Imakeholesinu]

HA! One more person I get to tell that it's not the server's fault the app is running slow, it's cause of yet another developer who doesn't know what they are doing.

Congrats!

[SineSwiper]

Ahh, cool. I'm actually talking with our mobile phone guys about linking some of this stuff to the cable techs' phone software.