Any other Programmers on here?

I'm a C++/C#/ASP.net/PHP programmer primarily.

I enjoy web based stuff mainly but do dabble in some other areas too.

I have a blog http://blog.mat-lawrence.co.uk/ where I talk about anything that interests me....... don't know if it interests anybody else tho!

Matt

C++ and Oracle.

Matt:

Mainly C#, ASP.Net, MSSQL.  I just installed Visual Studio 2010 and I'm working on WPF alot now.

Started with dBASEII back in the day.

Dale

Cool,

dBase! Straight from the 80's eh?  

I have a copy of VS 2010 waiting to be installed, but I'm waiting till I've rebuilt my Windows Server 2008 before I do that. How are you finding it?

I'm really enjoying Powershell 2.0 at the moment, it's so powerful! Especially now with the ISE.

Matt

Quote from: Megamatman on 15 May 2010, 10:10:32 AM
dBase! Straight from the 80's eh?  
I have a copy of VS 2010 waiting to be installed, but I'm waiting till I've rebuilt my Windows Server 2008 before I do that. How are you finding it?
I'm really enjoying Powershell 2.0 at the moment, it's so powerful! Especially now with the ISE.

Matt

Matt:
I made a very good living from the mid 80's until the late 90's writing Clipper code after moving from dBASE.  I like VS2010 but it is slower then VS2008.  I was talking to some Microsoft MVP's about this and they said you should have seen the beta versions.  Also, VS2010 is basically a 1.0 product.  It's a complete rewrite.  If you are doing Silverlight or WPF, the designer is MUCH improved.  My .NET users group have a speaker on Powershell a week ago.  Seems very good but I'm not sure were I would use it.


Dale

Hi I'm a geek programmer too.
Well, at least this is part of what I make for a living.
I know a bit of php, and I use primarily what we call an "atelier de génie logiciel" which can translate as "software engineering workshop" - as you can notice, I'm not very familiar with english terms.

COBOL 

Well I was 25 years ago but then they promoted me out of harms way

Ah yes, COBOL.  I learned COBOL in college back in the day.  I was in one of the last classes that learned COBOL.  They were just starting to teach C at that time.  I never programmed in COBOL but I remembered enough to read the code when converting old COBOL into Clipper.

As a note, I have a good friend that still earns a nice living as an RPG programmer/consultant.

Quote from: MooseDontBounce on 06 June 2010, 06:04:18 PM
As a note, I have a good friend that still earns a nice living as an RPG programmer/consultant.

Wow!  Of course, you would have a hard job finding two of them. 

My first job out of school was COBOL (during school I had earned a few buck with APL); and then again for a few years with Y2K work.

SQL for Oracle and SQLServer, does that count?

Some C# at college this year, dabbled with all sorts of stuff in the past. Now wanting to learn C & C++ & Perl as well as lots of others -time permtting of course.  I need to get a job first.

I programed specturm basic back in the day, had tonnes of books that i copyed the programmes out of by rote.  I understood why they did what they did a lot of the time.

When i got older i thought about trying to do some C++ i have a pile of books under my desk right now of C++ and Java 2 but I dont know where to start what compilers to get that arnt full of confusing gubbins or come with a nice straight foward guide to usage on how to use it.

If someone out there with far more experience than i could make a recomendation that would be fantastic.

Take care
Brian.

Quote from: count_zero99uk on 17 August 2010, 10:52:04 AM
I programed specturm basic back in the day, had tonnes of books that i copyed the programmes out of by rote.  I understood why they did what they did a lot of the time.

When i got older i thought about trying to do some C++ i have a pile of books under my desk right now of C++ and Java 2 but I dont know where to start what compilers to get that arnt full of confusing gubbins or come with a nice straight foward guide to usage on how to use it.

If someone out there with far more experience than i could make a recomendation that would be fantastic.

Take care
Brian.

I normally use Bloodshed Dev C++ with Windows.

Download:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dev-cpp/devcpp-4.9.9.2_setup.exe

Info:
http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

Matt

Quote from: count_zero99uk on 17 August 2010, 10:52:04 AM
Java 2 but I dont know where to start what compilers to get that arnt full of confusing gubbins or come with a nice straight foward guide to usage on how to use it.

Depends on what you want to do with it, but for general home and hobby Java using Eclipse is about as good a combination of price (free) and support (lots of that free too) as you can get.  If you want to twiddle bits, then C++ is still it.

I earn my living by C++ occasionally, but a lot more Java work toddles through these days.