Are you a professional developer / Do you develop on a regular basis at work?

[blaurent]

Hi,

Just wondering how many of you guys actually do software development on a regular basis at work!

Are you a developer? A technical manager that likes to code in his/her free time? An employee that does development at work so as to automate processes at work/boost effectiveness?

Are you even employed? Or do you work as a freelance developer?


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EDIT: Updated title so as to avoid confusion

[Ledidas]

Do you know about chemistry ?

[Maejie]

I store a developer who once was announced as a second substitute in my trashbin. she was a wild cat (compared to a dog like me) waiting for an old dirty married man stopping by to eat sushi togedar

[GremlinSA]

I develop Software Permanently ...

That is my work and profession..

I spend 18 out of 24 hours a day infront of my Laptop Working on Code ... (ASP, Borland C, VB.NET, SQL, and others) ....

and TBH i still learn something new at least once a week .....

so My poll answer is YES ....

[blaurent]

Do you know about chemistry ?

I store a developer who once was announced as a second substitute in my trashbin. she was a wild cat (compared to a dog like me) waiting for an old dirty married man stopping by to eat sushi togedar

Hahaha! I've updated the OP! I hope it's much clearer now

I develop Software Permanently ...

That is my work and profession..

I spend 18 out of 24 hours a day infront of my Laptop Working on Code ... (ASP, Borland C, VB.NET, SQL, and others) ....

and TBH i still learn something new at least once a week .....

so My poll answer is YES ....

Wow man that's a lot of hours! And a lot of different languages too! How do you manage to remain focused on so many different projects? I mean, VB.NET Borland C and ASP are very different from one another, how can you within a single day jump from one to the next language?



As for myself I'm a junior developer (just about 9 months now) and work with Flex and Java for the front end of a fairly big portal. I'll interrupt my career so as to do my Master degree. Then jump back into software development In a day I'll probably spend 12-14 hours doing code, taking into account the (in average) 10 hours at the office and an additional 2-4 hours of practice and side projects at home. I've voted for Yes.


Thanks guys

[GremlinSA]

Wow man that's a lot of hours! And a lot of different languages too! How do you manage to remain focused on so many different projects? I mean, VB.NET Borland C and ASP are very different from one another, how can you within a single day jump from one to the next language?

It's not too difficult to manage projects in the different languages.. The biggest problem is the Syntax ...

IE:
C and Delphi have the { - } , SQL has Begin - End, and VB has End (If/ Sub/Class/Namespace)
Then there's the Operators .. =, !=, ==, <> . although you start to remember which one works where..
Lastly some languages need the ending ';' ...

All new projects I develop are in VB.Net, And I only maintain some of the older app's in the other languages, until they need the rewrite...

[Eri523]

IE:
C and Delphi have the { - } [...]

Errr, yes. But, if memory serves, in one they denote an execution and scope control block and in the other one a comment...

[GremlinSA]

okay .. you may be right, And now talking about comments.. each language has a different comment system...

• { .... }
• ' ....
• -- ......
• <- .... ->

Did i miss any ????

[Eri523]

Did i miss any ????

Certainly. Just to mention a few:

• x86 (and probably a bunch of others) assembly language: ; ...
• PostScript: % ...
• and, last but not least, C/C++: /* ... */ or // ...

Please nobody might bash me because the second form of comment I listed for C/C++ was introduced into C sometime after the initial version of the language...

[HanneSThEGreaT]

Hi,

Just wondering how many of you guys actually do software development on a regular basis at work!

Are you a developer? A technical manager that likes to code in his/her free time? An employee that does development at work so as to automate processes at work/boost effectiveness?

Are you even employed? Or do you work as a freelance developer?


Feel free to share

EDIT: Updated title so as to avoid confusion

Well, I actually do programming training ( VB6, VB.NET, C#, Java )

In the situation I am in, I am the only programmer at work, so if there are stuff that needs to be made, I must make it, mostly, sadly, on my own. At first it was a huge battle - because I am not the sharpest tool in the toolshed, but 13 years on, and it is going fine.

Sometimes training is slow, so I always try to find new stuff to make my life easier - not only at work, but at home as well.