The Mint
1984, you’re right man! That’s a typo.
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After years of using WebForms I decided to venture out and see what other frameworks exist. I didn’t really have any expectations or requirements. I was simply curious what others were using and interested in what’s different (perhaps better) about them. In my search I stumbled across a light-weight web framework known as CodeIgniter.
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As the result of a rather insulting discussion with an anti-VB coworker I challenge myself to jump the fence from VB to C# land. I wanted to experience first hand what all the fuss was about. So I dove head-first into building my first C# project. That was nearly four months ago.
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Today I went to lunch with Brian, our resident Business Analyst who serves as the link between development and operations. (A policy prevents developers from talking directly with users. Instead we play the telephone game and hope it comes out correct on the other end.) We had a nice long chat over some delicious Sonny’s BBQ. I ranted about corporate policy and complained about our development process. Little did I know that I would return from lunch to find a new policy in place. A policy that I’d feel so strongly against that it makes my other complaints seem petty.
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I have been enjoying life at my new company for over a month now. The single biggest difference between all my previous employers is the size of this company. They have nearly 500 employees and four buildings (including the 18.5K sqft building I work in). In fact they have more programmers here than my previous company had employees. Keeping good communication and organization between this many people is a challenge. To that end (at least for the development department) they have introduced a mandated, daily stand-up meeting: the daily scrum.
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My new company is your typical enterprise business. They had an in-house application created with Microsoft Access. As the company grew the Access app couldn’t keep up and the need to rewrite the software became obvious. After some false starts in Access they finally settled on VB.NET as the new language of choice. All this occurred a few years prior to my arrival.
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I sat in a room at a large, solid-wood round table looking across as four individuals drilled me with technical questions. As you may expect this was a bit intimidating. But this certainly was not my first time in a technical interview.
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Today I picked up a new laptop from Best Buy. I spent over an hour roaming around looking at all the difference choices. I even considered an Apple but was greatly discouraged by the price. In the end I settled on a new Sony Vaio.
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It’s a new year and I’ve moved on from Blogger but wanted to start fresh so you won’t find any of my old posts here.Michael Minton
