projects are (is) back
2213 days ago
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[update: a new version is available already! click on the picture to download it]
I know that you had really, really missed seeing the little red tab that said “projects” at the top of the page. But I killed a bunch of projects when I changed web hosts a while ago, and I wasn’t doing anything particularly interesting computer-wise, so I just took it out.
As part of my continuing job search, though, I thought I would brush up on a couple of my more out of date skills. So I wrote a little program for calculating power output (in watts) for running. This is the C# .NET version of the program. I used C#, because everyone on monster.com and similar places seems to want a C# programmer, and no one wants to hear whether you think one programming language is basically the same as another. Or more accurately, no one would ever give you a chance to say that.
I don’t mean to seem jaded at the relatively tender age of 27, but this makes me want to find a new industry. Every time I’ve taken a new job, I’ve had to learn at least one new one. This experience is not unique to software: any time anyone takes a new job anywhere, they have to learn new skills and new ways of doing things. It makes me a little ticked off to imagine that software departments think what they are doing is so unique that no one who doesn’t already work there could possibly understand what they do. I’ve worked in fifteen programming languages, five kinds of databases, and four web servers. They are all pretty much the same. There, I said it.
See, I can talk a big game, but that hasn’t prevented me from brushing up on SQL Server, C#, and VB. Sigh.
