#120

yeah i do code

day job at the moment involves me doing stuff with C#, SQL, ASP.NET, bit of VBA, bit of Python. seem to be going down a web development route at the moment but i’ve done lots of desktop stuff with C#, and i have released a (rubbish) Android app that i knocked up in my spare time.

did some robotic process automation last year as it’s a Big Thing in my department at work and although i like the idea of it, in practice it’s a bit shit to develop - the tool we used is like trying to code with one arm behind your back, with half the keys on your keyboard missing and you have to come up with ways to do things with the limited toolset you have available. at least that’s my experience with it.

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#121

Me too, work as an Android developer in the London metropolitan elite city zone. I even made a native app that allows you to browse the old forums, and it still works

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#122

Love that the Sophie Ellis Bextor thread’s immortalised on that archived frontpage

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#123

What did you use for Android? I looked at it ages ago with Java, but there is only so much I can do in my spare time before it becomes a chore. i.e. doing the exact thing as I do all week.

But I’ve been intrigued by the Xamarin stuff as it’s closer to my normal skillset.

#124

I used Android Studio so I used Java too.

I keep meaning to have a look at Xamarin, think I get a load of training stuff for it with my MSDN subscription but never got round to it. A guy at work used it I think for a game he released on Android and iOS, said he liked it either way though.

#125

Why didn’t I know about this at the time???

#126

@chris-budget really brought the smackdown here, tbf


nice work.

#127

smashed out about 5 lines yesterday. got stuck with asynchronous methods.

back to “mentoring” real developers or whatever it is I do.

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#128

I was there, through the 90s. It went from loads of science with a little bit computing to loads of computing with a little science. Was better at probem solving and coming up with multiple solutions than real science. So ideal for IT.

JCL, Fortran 77, Fortan 90, DEC and DCL, Cray

The best part was having access to Cray supercomputers. I could look at them, but was not allowed to sit on them. The Fortran code base for the global weather model was so massive and complex that DEC/Cray used it to QA new releases of Fortran compilers.

#129

I was stuck for two hours yesterday due to incompatible versions of NuGet packages. Though of course the errors didn’t make this obvious did they? It’s just like the old days of DLL version hell.

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#130

Hmm. We might know each other…

#131

were you the one who stopped bonfires sitting on the big computers?

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#132

:smile:

I wish!

I personally never ran any code on the Crays, but I did see them a few times. The thing bonfires doesn’t mention about them is that if the cooling systems on them were to fail then the supercomputers would literally melt in seconds if still powered up, so they had massive cartoon-style red on-off buttons to cut the power if it happened.

#133

Hmm indeed. Did I abandon you and the TV at Twickenham Station over Xmas?

BTW - I had sole usage of a baby Cray, a 3 feet cube. Those were the days.

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#136

I tried to rewatch Sneakers recently but I just couldn’t get that arsed. :frowning:

#137

Just realised that scene would work in a Marvel film. Ha.

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#138

Get back to the music board where you belong :slight_smile:

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#139

By the time I had finished it properly the forums where going to be moved here. I’m sure I had mentioned it briefly and messaged sean about it on facebook but there was no response. In theory it would be possible to integrate it with the discourse APIs but would require a bit of work to replicate all the functionality.

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