Today I have mostly been using ${insert development technology here}

[dervish]

I have now moved from Excel and batch files to SQL server and Visual Studio. Going from having batch files creating text files to be parsed in excel to having vb script input directly into an SQL database was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. Now I just need to create a front end to it and sort out error capturing.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

I have now moved from Excel and batch files to SQL server and Visual Studio. Going from having batch files creating text files to be parsed in excel to having vb script input directly into an SQL database was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. Now I just need to create a front end to it and sort out error capturing.

... and how hard can that be anyway...

*whistles innocently*

 

[prunus]

Perl, MySQL, Ajax, html.

I like it here in the late 90s

 

[FridgeMagnet]

You know, really, this title should involve

${DEVELOPMENT_TECHNOLOGY}

or maybe

$(read -p "what development technology have you mostly been using? " DT; echo $DT)

yes I have been bash scripting

 

[iamwithnail]

title = "Today I have mostly been using %s" % "apache2 and gunicorn"

Stupid servers.

 

[ohmyliver]

I've been using Postman for API related QA stuff. It's so good I brought the licence (admittedly it was $10, but still).

 

[iamwithnail]

ohmyliver - Thanks for mentioning that, that's a REALLY great tool, just been building an API for our site, so that's super handy timing. Think I'll stump up the $10 as well.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Man, reading this thread kinda makes me miss programming, and yet it kind of scares me too. How do you all keep your skills current? My background was in large mainframe systems for a life and pensions company, where the humungous backend was COBOL (and a surprisingly large amount of ALGOL too), so the technology was kinda static, and it was the complexity of the business logic that was the challenge. I definitely couldn't keep up with you guys pace of change nowadays, and I'm not sure I could have even when I was 25 years younger...

 

[fractionMan]

Man, reading this thread kinda makes me miss programming, and yet it kind of scares me too. How do you all keep your skills current? My background was in large mainframe systems for a life and pensions company, where the humungous backend was COBOL (and a surprisingly large amount of ALGOL too), so the technology was kinda static, and it was the complexity of the business logic that was the challenge. I definitely couldn't keep up with you guys pace of change nowadays, and I'm not sure I could have even when I was 25 years younger...

Almost snap! I started with a massive pensions management system in Pascal.

Keeping current? It's weird but it almost happens by accident when you're working. You go "oh look, an easier/better way of doing what I normally do", check it out and get it going. ime.

There are SO many ways of doing everything nowdays that nobody can be expected to know them all.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

There are SO many ways of doing everything nowdays that nobody can be expected to know them all.

I certainly get that impression That must present its own problems in terms of maintenance of legacy systems I suppose, although I guess legacy in what most of the folk in here are doing doesn't really mean "1970s"* and that's no bad thing.

* my old place had a handful of programs that dated back to 1968/69, but one of the grey-bearded-godlike-ones figured out that the only code in those programs that actually dated from that time was the first couple of IDENTIFICATION DIVISION statements, and some of the variable definitions. The oldest actual still-live code was from three or four years later.

 

[fractionMan]

I certainly get that impression That must present its own problems in terms of maintenance of legacy systems I suppose, although I guess legacy in what most of the folk in here are doing doesn't really mean "1970s"* and that's no bad thing.

* my old place had a handful of programs that dated back to 1968/69, but one of the grey-bearded-godlike-ones figured out that the only code in those programs that actually dated from that time was the first couple of IDENTIFICATION DIVISION statements. The oldest actual still-live code was from three or four years later.

Nowdays legacy can mean "what we did two years ago". Which is why people need to take a bit of care picking things that aren't just fads, but things that will be supported for a while. (I'm looking at you GWT )

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I just make up frameworks. "Yeah I've been working in Platypus with a little bit of shitbat.js mostly - I'm quite interested in moving to Cockweasel though, I like how it does multiple inheritance resolution."

 

[iamwithnail]

Ime, working in a non tech firm that works with software companies, the expectation isn't that you'll know them all, but that you'll familiar enough with MVC frameworks that you can pick up a new syntax. They're not the same at all, but being able to switch between languages and work out the slightly different approaches is generally seen as the sign of a 'good' programmer - admittedly, this is startup skewed where you generally need to know a bit of everything, front end, back end, devops.

 

[prunus]

I just make up frameworks. "Yeah I've been working in Platypus with a little bit of shitbat.js mostly - I'm quite interested in moving to Cockweasel though, I like how it does multiple inheritance resolution."

Platypus is great - looks really odd when you first look at it, but soon you realise it's very agile.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Platypus is great - looks really odd when you first look at it, but soon you realise it's very agile.

The Spur extensions are powerful too, though you have to be careful when handling them.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Platypus is great - looks really odd when you first look at it, but soon you realise it's very agile.

I like how it generates child processes through it's unconventional implementation of the Ova schema

 

[fogbat]

I am working through our rat's nest of checkout javascript files and, on a not unrelated note, wishing I could punch IE8 in the face.

 

[iamwithnail]

I bloody hate the twitter API.

 

[kwaimaisabai]

Python. Again. IPCs in Python suck. Muchly.

 

[elbows]

Unity 5 beta 13's new metal-roughness physically based standard shader, in conjunction with allegorithmic substance painter.

 

[kwaimaisabai]

Lots of disk failures over the weekend. TIAMU LSI MegaCli. A truly dreadful piece of software with an inconsistent interface and a very flaky driver.

 

[ohmyliver]

fogbat you presumably know http://www.theie8countdown.com/

I've been mostly using Charles (which is excellent, again I've actually stumped up the 34 or so quid to get a licence for it at home) to get google analytics tracking data from an Android app.

I do wish that the GA chrome plug in, and the remote developer google thing would work with apps in general, rather than just web pages, and apps that use webview. I also wish that the implementation of GA didn't send out the data in batches, as it's a pain in the arse to map out a user's progress, and then try and map that back to the responses being sent out, and that's before parsing the strings.

 

[salem]

Today I'm looking into RDF / Triple Store - conceptually it seems great, we'll see how it pans out in a practical sense. I'm going to have a play with it soon (I have real work to do first mind) and hopefully some kind of hello world exercise will be doable without too much faffing about.

Oddly one of the examples on the Wikipedia page for RDF is 'A wikipedia article about Tony Benn'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resour...xample_3:_A_Wikipedia_article_about_Tony_Benn

 

[iamwithnail]

Debating whether to use http://www.brombone.com/ or PhantomJS to serve site snapshots (we're built in Angular, so bad for SEO). Any experiences?

 

[fractionMan]

Delphi

Did I mention I'm working with a lot of Delphi at the moment?

It's HORRIBLE

 

[paolo]

So I finally had a reason to learn and use bash. OMFG that's a non intuitive syntax.

And I've been generating diagrams with graphviz. Which is - as far as it goes - amazeballs.

 

[paolo]

Delphi

Did I mention I'm working with a lot of Delphi at the moment?

It's HORRIBLE

Isn't that, like, from the 80s or something?

 

[fractionMan]

Isn't that, like, from the 80s or something?

More 90s. Before that was pascal, which I've also worked with

 

[dervish]

So I finally had a reason to learn and use bash. OMFG that's a non intuitive syntax.
.

Yep, but so very efficient.

Even when you don't want it to be.

 

[fractionMan]

Yesterday it was C# and I think it's going to be C# for a while now. First real go with it and I'm liking it. Very Java-like.

Weirdest bit is how my colleagues seem to hate open source. Other than log4net and nuint it just doesn't seem to be a 'thing' anyone trusts.