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c_man

Hey guys,

Just got to wondering what our forum regulars do in their day to day jobs? If I had to guess I'd say most people here are involved in web development/services judging by the forum threads.

Well I'm a developer (American MNC of course :pac: ) working on a desktop client, mainly code in C++.

ChRoMe

c_man wrote: »

Hey guys,

Just got to wondering what our forum regulars do in their day to day jobs? If I had to guess I'd say most people here are involved in web development/services judging by the forum threads.

Well I'm a developer (American MNC of course :pac: ) working on a desktop client, mainly code in C++.

Web and Android dev

Ri_Nollaig

c_man wrote: »

Hey guys,

Just got to wondering what our forum regulars do in their day to day jobs? If I had to guess I'd say most people here are involved in web development/services judging by the forum threads.

Well I'm a developer (American MNC of course :pac: ) working on a desktop client, mainly code in C++.

Java Developer, currently working on an eclipse RCP project

jester77

Currently playing with RoR, vagrant, veewee and chef.

amen

C#, JavaScript, Jquery, SQL Server (Large DBs'), ASP.Net

rainbow kirby

PHP/JS front end work, Python scripting, C++ back-end, with very small amounts of R scripting for specific purposes. Small scientific company.

COYW

C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, JQuery and such fun. Web and desktop apps.

L.Jenkins

Getting into Cloud based Marketing tools soon enough and Enterprise applications as well. Using Java, J2EE and C#.

Merrion

C# over SQL, WPF and entity framework - financial services.

IRLConor

I'm doing some back-end plumbing for a platform-as-a-service company. Mostly Ruby, Python and shell.

RealistSpy

Final year college student ( anything .net, erlang, java, tutorial maker, documenting anything programming). Future software engineer, manager and CEO.

IRLConor

RealistSpy wrote: »

manager and CEO.

Be careful what you wish for!

ChRoMe

RealistSpy wrote: »

Final year college student ( anything .net, erlang, java, tutorial maker, documenting anything programming). Future software engineer, manager and CEO.

I've done the first two on your list, its not like what you think it will be.

It is awesome though.

RealistSpy

ChRoMe wrote: »

I've done the first two on your list, its not like what you think it will be.

It is awesome though.

What should I be expecting?

ChRoMe

RealistSpy wrote: »

What should I be expecting?

Thats hard to say without knowing your interests. However, there is a huge amount of money and respect for someone who can communicate with both the technical and operational ends of a large business.

If you can learn how to talk to suits and still be respected by the techies, the sky is the limit.

TrueDub

Technical dev lead at the moment, lots of Java experience, lots of Big Iron stuff before that.

Aswerty

I've been a full stack .Net web developer since leaving college a couple of years back but am moving into a new job next week which looks like it is going to be largely Python based.

Tar.Aldarion

Python developer, also do android. Defense & space industry.

conor.hogan.2

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

space industry.

Using Python? Can you expand on this a bit?

Tar.Aldarion

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Using Python? Can you expand on this a bit?

Well SpaceX use python amongst their other languages so I imagine it has some use with space related things. My company may be in the "defense and space" industry but I work in the defense part, communications (I'm not too sure what they do regarding space, if anything).

Colonel Panic

JPL and NASA publish a bit of open source stuff and SpaceX Engineers did an AMA on Reddit a while ago. They use quite a spread of technology, but it's safe to say pretty much every current spacecraft runs C (or some tiny subset of C++ at a push). It's easy to find coding guidelines for these guys online too.

conor.hogan.2

Ok.

I am sure they would use quite a bit of a lot of languages in some capacity but I was looking at SpaceX job postings* a while ago and naturally enough it is all not interpreted languages.

fergalr

Recently completed a PhD in social network analysis / machine learning / data analytics.

Currently working on a startup. We're making it easy for developers to use machine learning AI to business tasks, such as CRM. (Predictive analytics.)

The tech stack we are building is mostly python.
(Bootstrap,D3.js,jquery) -> (Python Google App Engine, jinja2) -> nginx -> RESTful Flask, tornado (on EC2) -> Custom machine learning network servers (Python on EC2) -> Python backend -> Datastore

SimonTemplar

Just finished the second year of a four year evening degree course which is heavily focused on Java but also a little front end web development. Starting C# next year.

In work, we currently outsource all our main development (I don't even have a dev environment) so about 75% of my time is spent developing VBA based solutions that are required by the business to solve short-medium term or ad hoc requirements but does not warrant a full scale outsourced development process.

So, for the last few months, my evenings have been spent developing college projects in Java and my days spent working with VBA. Changing from Java to VBA feels like changing from playing an XBOX to playing with a Commodore 64!

Thankfully, our company is moving away from the outsourcing model and are in the early stages of creating an inhouse dev Java team.

I also did a decent amount of VB.NET development in a previous job.

Eunan Plumb

ChRoMe wrote: »

Thats hard to say without knowing your interests. However, there is a huge amount of money and respect for someone who can communicate with both the technical and operational ends of a large business.

If you can learn how to talk to suits and still be respected by the techies, the sky is the limit.

An don't go in to talk to the suits wearing wearing a Metallica tee and greasy cargoes...topped off by a three day stubble.

Look people in the freekin eye when you are talking to them and remember they are REAL people whom you cannot CNTRL Alt Delete and expect them to actually look at you and speak to you.

Avoid getting the "Who was that Fu~@>ng C*#t" reaction from them when you leave the room.

You should be OK !

srsly78

Eunan Plumb wrote: »

An don't go in to talk to the suits wearing wearing a Metallica tee and greasy cargoes...topped off by a three day stubble.

Look people in the freekin eye when you are talking to them and remember they are REAL people whom you cannot CNTRL Alt Delete and expect them to actually look at you and speak to you.

Avoid getting the "Who was that Fu~@>ng C*#t" reaction from them when you leave the room.

You should be OK !

Yeah but if you don't come across as a little bit weird they will doubt your developer skills.

ChRoMe

Eunan Plumb wrote: »

An don't go in to talk to the suits wearing wearing a Metallica tee and greasy cargoes...topped off by a three day stubble.

Thats IS how you go in to them, thats the whole point. You are the conduit between business and technology.

Granted its a clean hoody, clean jeans and 3 day stubble.

dazberry

In a "tech" company I'm working on dotNet 1.1 era code (some still in 1.1, remainder in 2.0) in a mix of C# and vb.net, slowly phasing out the latter. I guess this is life at the dregs of the Irish SME sector. If I see another datatable being passed from one object to another I think I'll scream. Looking for the big red eject lever...

D.

Eunan Plumb

ChRoMe wrote: »

Thats IS how you go in to them, thats the whole point. You are the conduit between business and technology.

Granted its a clean hoody, clean jeans and 3 day stubble.

Sorry pilgrim !

This is how you THINK you should talk to them and I take on board your bit about conduit an all that.

Forget about the myth that the suits will only take you seriously if you appear "alternative" or "grungy".

No pal......ditch that look...techies need to learn that appearing in a clean trousers and shirt with a well groomed appearence will cut the mustard much better with the suits.

Trust me pal......I know what I'm talking about.

srsly78

Nah you don't really, you are just generalising.

Game development = wear a suit? lol?
Finance = wear jeans? lol?

Also in the consulting world there are the guys that try to compensate for lack of technical ability by wearing a 3 piece suit everyday

Creamy Goodness

Mobile app developer - iOS and Android. Previously a LAMP stack-ish (didn't use apache ) developer.

Dave!

Started as a front-end guy (HTML, CSS, JS/jQuery) with a Mickey Mouse BA and sh*t grades, then worked with PHP and MySQL at a tiny web design shop. Now I'm getting to where I want to be, working at a decent sized but very young mobile payments company, working primarily with Ruby and Postgres, and getting good full-stack experience.

Ultimately hoping to launch my own product and make a living out of that. I have a few ideas bouncing around and am nearly finished a proof of concept for one application. We shall see Really happy in my current position, so I'll just keep working on my own stuff in the evenings til I get somewhere with it!

L.Jenkins

What your arguments look like...

Marsden

I work solely in Scratch.

omahaid

Embedded + automotive diagnostics so mostly C

Goodshape

Full-stack web and mobile development; lead dev in a couple of startups at the moment. One of them is bound to take off and make me millions any day now.

Spend most of my time with PHP and Javascript.

Sparks

Itzy wrote: »

What your arguments look like...

Not so much, people won't pay to look at silly arguments but Rule #34 says you can make a living selling images of women pulling each others hair. (Being married, I can't understand why, but I'm assured that's true by those in the know).


Back on-topic, DB2 kernel developer working on their disaster recovery stuff, pretty much all in C++, with Perl for tests and some shell scripting and python for ancillary doo-dads.

(yes, that's a technical term).

Colonel Panic

Hmm, something seems different...

My job flip flops between a large C++ code base and a fledgling .Net one that interfaces with it as well as lots of other glue parts in various languages.

ChRoMe

Sparks wrote: »

Not so much, people won't pay to look at silly arguments

No but they will look at them for free on boards

Feathers

Web dev in a digital agency - mostly CMS integration with WebServices via Java. Dabbling in Scala for our functional tests.

stevenmu

ISV/Consulting, mostly mid sized projects (measured in weeks/months) and mostly centred around the Microsoft BI stack. Office, SharePoint, Biztalk, Dynamics, SQL Server, SSAS/SSRS, Azure etc and all the related technologies, lots of C#, HTML/Javascript, web services/WCF etc.. etc..

Getting more into project/team management over the last year or two which is a whole different type of challenge.

Ludo

Ri_Nollaig wrote: »

Java Developer, currently working on an eclipse RCP project

Snap.

Hmmm... and you are in Cork also. Are we sitting near each other by any chance I wonder

aperture_nuig

Java/C++ backend/C# frontend dev, working in a large multinational. Android development in my spare time.

BrokenArrows

Mainly C# but i dabble in C/C++ from time to time when working with legacy applications.

I spend alot of time integrating with Oracle,MSSQL and Adaptive Server Anywhere databases.

Im in a professional services department which writes additions to our core products based on customer requests and the odd complete application.

KonFusion

Web dev at a Dublin-based web shop. Lucky enough to be working alongside some really talented people.

Mostly front-end (HTML/CSS/JS) & some back end (PHP). Occasionally transform into sales mode.

Usually working with Wordpress, Zencart, Magento, & Shopify.

Previously working with Java & C# (Unity).

Fiddling about with Titanium in my down-time.

OfflerCrocGod

JavaScript and Java SE, London based, work for a company that makes a framework which allows you to create desktop equivalent web trading applications. An example app.

Ri_Nollaig

Ludo wrote: »

Snap.

Hmmm... and you are in Cork also. Are we sitting near each other by any chance I wonder

would you be working for a certain German company....?

[-0-]

C, Java, Python, Perl, Bash. I'm a senior performance & capacity engineer in financial services.

Ludo

Ri_Nollaig wrote: »

would you be working for a certain German company....?

Yep!

satchmo

I'm a 3D technical lead at Ubisoft, working on Watch_Dogs at the moment. C++, Direct3D etc.

Eogclouder

I'm a student intern working on commercial ASP .NET MVC projects