Who here is a programmer?

[NickInMesa]

Originally Posted by standupright

stick with that and you could earn some real coinage.

Indeed. My company in Scottsdale is hiring and we have a hard time to find good programmers, especially ones who do database work (somehow it's looked down upon, yet database management and programming is fundamental to I.T. just because that's where you store the "I").

We've had to settle for people who come from other areas of engineering and science and transitioned late into programming, which shows that it's a good area to transitioned into.

So if you know someone or are looking for someone, let me know. I get a bonus

[Funkturnal]

I worked as an IT Business Analyst for the last 5 years. The language used on our ERP system is Progress. The interface of the ERP system is text-based, but the Progress language can do everything from designing the form to extracting/updating the data to reporting.

I also create applictions that connect to the backend database of the ERP system to extract reports, and for that, I use VB.

Also, I've made web systems using ASP (the old ASP - not .NET), and that is basically vbScript. Also HTML coding (but I'm not a designer at all... I have no visual sense at all), and JavaScript as well. The backend for the web systems is Oracle.

I've studied some C++ and C#, but never actually did any real work with them.

I've also worked a bit with PL/SQL procedures.

I've set up some Linux servers. I'm no expert by any means, but I know my way around Unix a bit.

I'm actually in the process of switching jobs at the moment (our ERP system support has been outsourced to India, and the need for local IT has been reduced etc, which ended up changing my career path at my company, and I wasn't happy with that. On one hand, I'm lucky I still have a job considering all the layoffs, but work was becoming a serious drag.)

Good news for me is that I just received a job offer from another company actually! I will have to learn RPG. Also a ton of other package software with customizations that I've never heard of. Also I will get involved with the Infrastructure side, which is something I know a bit, but never worked on professionally. I will have my work cut out for me. I should be celebrating, but I'm more relieved than anything else... Job hunting is an exhausting process. But I consider myself lucky to have found something in this job market.

[BB-414]

Well, I'm not actually a full-scale programmer, but since I study Multimedia Production, I have developed several applications and a XBox360 game using C# and the XNA framework.

Moreover I have developed a few games using ActionScript 3 if that counts.

[TheSuzie]

I have not programmed since 2001 (due to my health) but I started programming professionally with assembly language on an 8080 and programmed almost everything since then. Most microprocessors plus PDP-11, DG, CDC, VAX, Sun, SGI, Concurrent, HP-Apollo. Also a number of custom bit-slice based machines and array processors. Everything from embedded real-time systems with both off the shelf and custom execs, diagnostics, lots of code for BSD and Sys5. Assemblers, Fortran, C, Magic/L and a number of proprietary languages in addition to all sorts of scripting. Even did some embedded LINUX work mostly in C.

I'm sure there is more. Heck, I started on a Fortran IV timesharing setup using a teletype and paper tape. Only used punch cards once.

I think I'll go die now.

Peace,
S

[deekay911]

SAP, Oracle E-business Suite and JDEdwards here..20 years of consulting, ABAP, FICO, SD/MM, BI etc, lived in UK, Germany, Belgium, US on the back of the ERP demand.
It's funny how many people I come across in IT that play instruments - there seems to be a very natural affiliation between music and data..

[TheSuzie]

Originally Posted by warnergt

I don't look down on any languages or tools as long as you use them well.
However, there are quite a few bad programmers out there. Some guys
cut a lot of corners instead of doing it right (e.g. spaghetti code, no
documentation, no clarity or portability). I spend a good bit of my time
fixing other people's code.

On any large project, I spent more time writing the specification than coding and testing. Saved a lot of trouble because functionality and implementation was mostly defined before coding time. It also gave me a document to hand to regulatory authorities in the case that my project came under review.