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Describe Critical.
If you mean applications that control machinery and controllers for vehicles, traffic light systems, road sign displays for traffic warnings and control, medical equipment applications and life support... there doesn't seem to be people beating down the doors for that kind of work.
If you mean building systems such as warehouse inventory management, accounting systems, etc. There are plenty of developers doing this.
If you mean operating system developers - perhaps real time systems without latency - for apps like mentioned above - a peruse around source forge and various linux sites will guide you to many.
I'm not being sarcastic, quite the contraire. Your comment is sorta vague.
If you are looking for programmers that can do more than whip up a c# web service that says hello and/or a php web page counter with today's date - than you are already among many here on this site.
--Jason P Sage
http://www.jegas.com
Know way to many languages... master of none!
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Actually I mean the first one. And in this crisis time, I see a lot of offers for this kind of job, specially military ones.
The OS we use is not Linux, never worked with this before, but VxWorks, which, in my opinion, is one of the best for embedded applications.
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Interesting. I personally don't get asked for much embedded work - but I'm not at all surprised at what you say.
One thing I do like about embedded systems from a pure enthusiast point of view is they remind me of the kind of programming I used to for Timex Sinclair, c64 and this microcontroller I bought from RadioShacks years back when they sold cool stuff and not just over priced electronics like tv's and phone gadgets.
I never heard of vxWorks, but I bet its sweet. I don't keep up on embedded stuff so I can't comment to much - however I will say I'm a fan of tight, fast, smart and lean coding - which these days seems to have replaced with text parsing, code generators, and more greater than and less than brackets then I'd ever thought I'd see in a life time.
--Jason P Sage
http://www.jegas.com
Know way to many languages... master of none!
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Wind River VxWorks is for PowerPC and is a RTOS mainly used in large embedded systems, it is almost as predominant in this environment as Windows is on PCs, but it is actually very good.
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It just reflects what is in demand right now.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: It just reflects what is in demand right now.
Agreed. As much as I like game programming, web development feeds me. So, I do web development.
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So no body develops in php anymore?
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Every day. AU$70,000 per anum + bonuses + two of the best bosses in the world I reckon.
Pays the bills, and several counts of child support.
"Oooh baby, I got the F# Bluuuess.."
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So does that mean you use php then?
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Yes.
MichaelGallagher wrote: Every day.
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I'm upset it wasn't included in the survey. I need to do some php now to make my self feel better. Besides I think my boss has realized I'm just surfing the net.
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Surfing the net at work is like having sex with your [edit]Hot![/edit] cousin
...it's great until you get caught.
modified on Monday, February 9, 2009 6:44 AM
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MichaelGallagher wrote: Surfing the net at work is like having sex with your [edit]Hot![/edit] cousin
...it's great until you get caught.
You need to get out more.
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Syed M Hussain wrote: I'm upset it wasn't included in the survey
It was probably just an oversight, no wait... conspiracy time.... Chris hates PHP and all the heathen bastards that use it. It's his way of ensuring we're wiped off the planet forever so he can launch his evil scheme named Bring Back the BillG Droids, which refuse to run on PHP I might add.
Seriously, don't worry about. I know Chris, I don't think it was anything to worry about.
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Lots of people develop in PHP, me included, but I voted C++ since that is the one that pays most of my bills.
Regards.
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Man, in my side of the world there are plenty of people working on PHP, but I hate it!!! It is the worst language ever, but it pays the bills sometimes, very often.
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Syed M Hussain wrote: So no body develops in php anymore?
I do, and it pays my bills.
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I was looking for a language to use for some websites - and after flailing my arms about my head for many days, I found PHP - and life was much nicer.
. . . also, it looks so much like C - and that was kinda' pleasant and nostalgic.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"How do you find out if you're unwanted if everyone you try to ask tells you to stop bothering them and just go away?" - Balboos HaGadol
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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Delphi is paying my bills.....
Adrian Pasik
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Me too, my company has some million + lines of Delphi code to support still.
GSC
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but you don't make new projects in delphi right ?
Adrian Pasik
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I try my best not too, biggest reason for me to move to C#... job security, actually I've been converting older Delphi code to C#, never know when your job may be outsourced to a another country, so I try to learn everything I can.
GSC
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To Support? Shoot - FreePascal is Delphi Compatible and portable to a ton of operating systems and chipsets - even iPhone.
--Jason P Sage
http://www.jegas.com
Know way to many languages... master of none!
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You have my sympathies. Up until now 95% of our code has been in Delphi. At present we are converting, or redeveloping, into C#. My first programming in Delphi was back in '91, and Turbo Pascal years before that. I have allways hated, and will allways hate, Delphi, both the syntax of the language, the IDE, and the "support" tools provided. Allthough you may not need to be a masochist to enjoy Delphi, I'm convinced it helps.
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Bummer - though I enjoy the Objected Oriented Pascal way of doing things (The raw syntax - not the Borland Lib's necessarily) - I do understand the issue with the tools - Microsoft has a pretty decent toolset and Borland used to - but they don't rock the globe now like they used to when it comes to getting the attention of serious developers.
Hang in there C# Is the best .Net language (opinion only) and coverting the code is an opportunity in some ways - for improvements if your company can afford to do it.
--Jason P Sage
http://www.jegas.com
Know way to many languages... master of none!
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