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Oct. 3rd, 2003 12:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beermatblargh. think I should have gone to LowLife with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hazeii and mindygoth instead of moping around the house, pondering another Win2K re-install, playing with Kerio firewall (which is nice, prefer it to ZoneAlarm thingy), and getting a hankering to learn C++ and MFC and do netty things with IP communications. or dive into the MS .NET rubbish and learn that and just skip the MFC C++ bit. Now if only A) someone would pay me for this or B) I could motivate myself to learn some new stuff instead of the old not that usefull embedded realtime /c / asm / knowing which end of a soldering iron to hold.
Or perhaps I'll just have another mug of coffee & brandy. Yeah, that sounds a better plan...
Ohhh, and ice cream too!
hazeii and mindygoth instead of moping around the house, pondering another Win2K re-install, playing with Kerio firewall (which is nice, prefer it to ZoneAlarm thingy), and getting a hankering to learn C++ and MFC and do netty things with IP communications. or dive into the MS .NET rubbish and learn that and just skip the MFC C++ bit. Now if only A) someone would pay me for this or B) I could motivate myself to learn some new stuff instead of the old not that usefull embedded realtime /c / asm / knowing which end of a soldering iron to hold.Or perhaps I'll just have another mug of coffee & brandy. Yeah, that sounds a better plan...
Ohhh, and ice cream too!
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Date: 2003-10-02 05:17 pm (UTC)Oh, that was Mindygoth?, I would have said 'hello' if I'd have realised at the time.
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Date: 2003-10-03 05:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-11 03:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-11 04:44 am (UTC)They can introduce themselves to each other, and I can carry on moshus uninterruptus.
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Date: 2003-10-03 06:31 am (UTC)Yeah
Doh!
Next time eh?
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Date: 2003-10-11 03:49 am (UTC)Or get a barcode tattood on her!
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Date: 2003-10-03 02:33 am (UTC).NET rubbish will almost certainly be a good way to go employmentwise. Rumour has it that this is actually possible without selling your soul completely. It's actually fairly nifty once you get into it. The languages shouldn't pose any challenges if you've a reasonable amount of experience of similar languages. An experienced programmer should be able to learn everything they need to know about VB.NET, C# and J# in about a day. It's no harm to be able to say you know all three.
The major learning curve is the .NET framework. There are litterly thousands of classes, and while a lot of them are very specialised it's helpful to get a feel for what the whole framework can do. It can eliminate the need to code a lot of mundane tasks, so long as you know where to look for it. There have been times when I've spent a couple of hours working on a task only to discover I could do it in a couple of lines of code.
On the other hand, maybe I'll join you for coffee/brandy and ice-cream. Yumm!
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Date: 2003-10-11 03:44 am (UTC)Feels almost like I'm back to start of work life, no experience (that counts) in an industry, keen to learn, able to learn, but no openings to get off the ground.
Ah well, time to retrain, as a gigilo or something :)
Or start a coffee/brandy & ice cream parlour!