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Anyone else a software / web developer?

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jorange5 · 01/01/2008 11:49

Just wondering really. Don't meet many other women who do it and tbh I am just looking to divert myself from the dull dull dull website I am putting together.

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lapinewyear · 01/01/2008 11:50

moi

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jorange5 · 01/01/2008 11:51

oooh hello

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jorange5 · 01/01/2008 11:55

I quit to be a SAHM but have recently started doing it from home. It's not my cup of tea any more but I'm too lazy to do a proper job

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lapinewyear · 01/01/2008 13:34

LOL! I was a business analyst in the City but doing the web design thing since I can do it from home with small DS. Lolling on the sofa with laptop - my kinda job

Nightynight · 01/01/2008 14:03

I am doing software development at the moment.

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jorange5 · 01/01/2008 16:02

What kindo of thing are you doing Nightynight? I was a C# and database developer in my old life.

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Nightynight · 01/01/2008 23:07

Im writing C#, desktop application, telecom related.
actually, telecoms is my real interest, I hate writing code, much prefer answering requirements or something like that. I will never be a really good coder because Im simply not interested enough!
(clearly, I am not posting this from my work computer)

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jorange5 · 02/01/2008 17:37

I was in telecoms too Nightynight. I used to write apps that did wholesale ordering of BT products. Sounds a bit yawn on the face of it but I found it really interesting. Are you in London?

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Nightynight · 03/01/2008 17:09

Munich. the rates are good but you cant easily take any of it out of bavaria

NotQuiteCockney · 04/01/2008 09:56

I used to work in the City, doing C, C++, Java, whatever. Last job was derivs trading work. I liked it and hated it. I do miss coding per se, but haven't managed to sort out a way to do it part-time or from home (not really an option in the City).

GeekBoy · 04/01/2008 10:12

Done lots of stuff from VB/C# to PHP/Javascript.. ..dabbled with Java (which sucked), played with all manner of databases and am currently head of digital for a City based consultancy.. ...fun and games and still get hands dirty doing web dev stuff..

GeekBoy · 04/01/2008 10:12

ah.. ..not a woman though..

Sciolist · 04/01/2008 12:33

I started with Fortran/COBOL/BASIC in the 1980s, then everything Oracle, and now work in a proprietary development environment with workflows.

slug · 04/01/2008 12:46

I did a bit of C# /ASP.Net, though nothing major. However I am leaving teaching (today! Last day!) to go into software support.

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jorange5 · 07/01/2008 14:32

Well if there is so many of you why do I never meet any of you? No offence GeekBoy but male software developers can be an odd breed and I always wished I could talk to someone in the office about shoes or handbags sometimes

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MummyDoIt · 07/01/2008 14:33

I used to be a web developer before I gave it up to become a SAHM. I've wondered if it would be feasible to start again from home but I've been out of it for more than five years now and have forgotten most of what I knew!

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jorange5 · 07/01/2008 14:42

MummyDoIt I was out of it for 15 months and quite honestly I was almost back to square one, I had no idea where to start. It did all come back to me though but of course, even after just a year away there was a hell of a lot of new stuff to learn about but luckily for me DP is a developer too (he's not that odd either ) so he could help me.

I don't get that much work really and some of it is voluntary stuff for charity websites but it suits me at the moment while I am still getting back into it.

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StealthPolarBear · 07/01/2008 14:44

kinda
Want to move into data analysis though, but not too many jobs

glamourbadger · 07/01/2008 14:55

I am in the same boat, worked in the City for years before giving it up to be a SAHM. Really daunted at the idea of going back, it's been 2.5 years and I am completely out of the loop. Afraid there will be a 20 year old sitting at my desk looking at me like I'm some olde inept mummy...

littlelapin · 07/01/2008 14:55

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StealthPolarBear · 07/01/2008 15:30

didn't think this would go down well in jokes

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jorange5 · 07/01/2008 17:06

In my first ever technical interview the first question I was asked was about VB: "when you are working with a particular class, how would you know which methods are available to that class?" and I floundered a bit not really knowing what he wanted and started on about how I would hope to know the methods available to a class i was working with, then blabbered about the MSDN library and he just looked at me and said "you just put a dot after the class name and the list appears".

I felt such a knob as I wasn't expecting such a basic question to be asked so hadn't imagined we would be talking about the real basics of using the dev environment. Anyway i got the job but the guy who had interviewed me went on and on about that stupid answer for the 3 years I worked with him, never failing to regale new staff about my idiocy. There was always an air of 'daft woman' when he telling the story

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StealthPolarBear · 07/01/2008 17:10

he was assuming you were using a tool. You could have been writing code in notepad!

Nightynight · 07/01/2008 21:44

that is a nasty trick question. If you were using VI it wouldnt come up either, I think.
you should have pointed that out to him and made him look stupid!!

I also like talking about handbags and shoes sometimes, so I just do, and they all mutter into their computers about crazy women, but hey, theyre a captive audience

Sadly enough, the only place I ever worked where there were more women engineers than would fit into a phone box, was awful, because there was a frightful bitchy clique who gathered to talk about eastenders in their coffee breaks.

GeekBoy · 08/01/2008 19:51

of course the correct answer would have been to read the documentation the conscientious developer that wrote the class thoughtfully produced..