Back in high school I made a blackjack program with Visual Basic. I'm qualified, right?
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Whiskey Media Looking for Badass Engineer
Topic started by andy on June 11, 2009.
Last post by DanceDanceKennypants 1 week, 3 days ago.
Post by Cagey (1 posts) See mini bio
978 ACH / 14555 P
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I've been a software engineer for several years now and have been stuck using C++/C#/ASP.NET and MSSQL for pretty much the entirety of it. I've also been desperately wanting to learn things like Python, PostgreSQL, and Apache (for more than just hosting an SVN server) for pretty much that entire time, but just haven't had a chance to. Maybe now I'll have the motivation to find some extra time and do some ol' fashion book-learnins so that one day I may work in the Whiskey Media empire (or anywhere besides @*#%ing military contractors and their messed up government business practices).
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Post by Zaerus (84 posts) See mini bio
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@SamuSlave said:
It's clearly a typo, he clearly means: badass mop strangler =p"
@MattyFTM said:He likes to argue loudly with mops. ""@Sparky_Buzzsaw said:I'm may regret asking this, but what is a mop wrangler? Looking up "Wrangle" in the dictionary doesn't yield any results for things I would expect to be done to mops. "" If you guys need a badass mop wrangler, I'm your guy. "
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Post by halibut (8 posts) See mini bio
10 ACH / 0 P
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I'm going to tell you right now that I am not qualified according to the posting. I do have a lot of experience with the wrong technology stack (J2EE), but not a lot on the less web-facing stuff. I started out working on a large website for about a month, and then got pulled away to help start up a dozen or so small-to-medium-sized internal web-apps for one of my company's clients. Been working on those in sequence (actually about 4-5 at a time in parallel) for about 2 and a half years now.
Anyway, sorry for the massive swing-and-miss on what you asked for, but at the very least I was able use it as a refresher to get my resume up to date.
- I've got a little experience with Python. I wrote a plugin for Trac, as well as an exporter for Blender for use in a game engine of mine. But that's about the extent of my knowledge. I'm a Java guy who is trying to branch out into the FP world.
- I've got some experience with MySQL,Oracle, and MSSQL. I can do simple things like write a query, and look for columns to index, but I wouldn't be able to tune things like effective_cache_size based on usage patterns.
- Worked with Linux a little, but most of the stuff in the J2EE world is pretty environment-agnostic, so I don't have a lot of experience. I have set up Apache to serve SVN and Trac a couple of times, and I hacked together a pre-configured version of Knoppix (based on Buildix). But that knowledge is not second-nature. I'd need to look it up to do it again.
- My editor (Eclipse) is vastly superior to yours mainly because of the language. You can't do a lot of refactoring on a dynamically typed language. Also, I can write my code in a nice concise way in Scala and still have access to the billions of open-source Java libraries out there. But on top of just language differences, it's got excellent plugins for SVN, automatic web-app deployment, jsp/html/js/css/you-name-it editors, database query browser, etc...
- As far as embracing new technologies, I've started devoting all of my personal programming time to Scala which is a hybrid Object Oriented and Functional Programming language that runs on the JVM. It's statically typed, but it has type inferencing, so most of the time you don't need to specify a type at all (unless you're writing a library). I haven't played around with it yet, but it has a web-framework called Lift that focuses on Comet (server-push) for delivering content to large amounts of concurrent users.
Anyway, sorry for the massive swing-and-miss on what you asked for, but at the very least I was able use it as a refresher to get my resume up to date.
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Post by NeoUltima (52 posts) See mini bio
396 ACH / 6065 P
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I once made a Star Wars video game(play as x-wing, shoot tie fighters, blow up Death Star) in Qbasic in high school. Thing was rad, all the classmates were like "o daaaayyyumm son, you a natural born programmer"...Alas that is about as far as I advanced in my programming career...instead I decided to be a marketing major. So any opportunities for me? LMK
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