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I suddenly feel old.
1988-1989 writing Dos apps for printing industry
1989-1993 develop RISC OS / DOS software for nursing/old folk homes.
1993-1998 back to the first company for a second stint, writing Windows apps
1998-2001 writing telephony apps for a start-up, which then went dot bomb.
2001-today running my own company, consulting and writing anything to pay the bills.
Michael
But you know when the truth is told,
That you can get what you want or you can just get old,
Your're going to kick off before you even get halfway through.
When will you realise... Vienna waits for you? - "The Stranger," Billy Joel
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Thanks, now I feel old too, as I also started in '88 writing Wang Basic2 and C/Btrieve apps. Things were so much simpler in those days... and technology was new and cool, not just renamed, repackaged and retreaded stuff like nowadays.
Anyone remember Xenix and SuperDos? How about the WangPC? Octopus cables? Connecting to the BBS at 300 baud?
OK, got to go... time to take my Geritol.
onwards and upwards...
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Bugger, now I feel like a real old codger
1985-1990 DOS & CP/M apps for the Accounting and Hotel trade
1990-1992 DOS apps for Accounting and Stock Control
1992-1993 DOS apps for Marketing industry
1993-1995 DOS/Windows apps for the Retail trade
1995-1996 DOS/Windows apps for the Legal industry
1996-Present frelance, writing windows apps for anyone who'll pay me
Phil Harding
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You guys are all little kiddies.
1980 Honeywell Multics, VM-CMS [Pascal, C]
1981-1994 VMS, MS-DOS, Win3.1, Win32S [Pascal, C, C++]
1995-today U*x, Win9x, WinNT, Win2K/XP [C++, Java, Tcl/TK]
/ravi
My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536
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ravib@ravib.com
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First stint was at a small engineering company in Vermont with about 12 developers. Now I work at a 10,000+ company, there are probably 100 or so software developers (I am just counting coders, not project managers, testers, firmware engineers, etc.)
Big difference.
"I'd be up a piece if I hadn't swallowed my bishop." Mr. Ed, playing chess
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As of writing, there is one vote for, "I don't work as a developer." I wonder if that vote was from the chicken farmer[^]?
"I'd be up a piece if I hadn't swallowed my bishop." Mr. Ed, playing chess
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Nope, my vote was the 15th one.;P I am sure there are more hobbiest that frequent this site.
Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little
"You're obviously a superstar." - Christian Graus about me - 12 Feb '03
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Mine was the first
Matt Newman
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... have been pretending to be developers for over 10 years now, they started to believe it themselves.
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Started at my current company in June 1989 at the tender age of 18. Still a great place to work, 15 years on! (we have a very low staff turnover which is a good sign). 200 people when I started, now employing close to 1,500.
The Rob Blog
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Impressive So are u in a senior position now or in a management position?
<font=arial>Weiye Chen
When pursuing your dreams, don't forget to enjoy your life...
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Senior. Put it this way, my boss sits on the board of the company (he is a founding member) - there is no-one else inbetween which is really, really sweet (he's a techie too which is even better!).
The Rob Blog
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We do have an office in Dublin if that's any help!
The Rob Blog
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Kerridge Computer Co. Ltd.
The Ireland office details:
Kerridge Computer Systems
Anglesea House
Carysfort Avenue
Blackrock
Co. Dublin
Tel: +353 (0)1 288 3355
http://www.kerridge.ie/
The Rob Blog
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Maximilien wrote:
12 years ... 4 companies ...
An average of 3 years per company. Looks good. What is your longest and shortest time you worked in a company?
<font=arial>Weiye Chen
When pursuing your dreams, don't forget to enjoy your life...
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My shortest spell was 1 day. Actually, it was a morning. I stayed the rest of the day explaining why I wasn't going to be staying any longer. My longest was around three years, unless you count working for my own company, which was around 8.
Doesn't sound too bad until you know how long I've been working as a developer (20 yrs). These youngsters today, with their visual debuggers, multiple monitors, and namby-pamby language features like buffer overrun detection don't know they're born.
In my day you could work out what was going wrong by looking at the lights on the front panel. If you were really good, you could enter the bootstrap code on the switches at the front without referring to a crib sheet.
Hey, where did the 1980's go...
Steve S
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