Posted: 8/12/2016 1:32:31 AM EDT
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I'm just genuinely curious and feel like posting somewhere other than GD for a change. It seems there are LOTS of security/network/sysadmin types, but very rarely are there any arfcom software engineers/developers/whatever your title happens to be.
Maybe I'm alone 
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Nope...you aren't alone. I prefer to be called a code monkey though LOL.
Funny story. About 8 years ago I wrote some backup software. All was well until last Friday while using it on a home PC I set the destination to my C:\ to test something. That would have been fine except I set the Sync option to YES and erased my entire C:\ in about 3 seconds...doh! Needless to say that oversight has been corrected and I now don't allow root directories as the destination and I also put in a debug mode that will NEVER delete a file. Apparently I was dumb back then and didn't check for that scenario but I sure do now as that sucked! The real kick in the balls is that my Dropbox was still alive enough to sync all of the deletes before the machine died. I realized it when I fired up another machine while rebuilding the one I killed and it said I deleted 6K files. Happily my laptop was off so I unplugged my router so it couldn't get to the internet and put enerything back before I had to go to a backup drive since the laptop Dropbox folder was only a few hours old. At least it wasn't my development machine at work. The root lesson here is that backups are good and I love them :-) |
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Web dev here...although lately I've been mostly server side...Code Monkey is my preferred title as well.
ASP.NET, C#, React/Redux/JS for client side stuff...building business applications for my employer... I also dabble in the mobile world mainly just to stay relevant I don't publish apps to the store...although with 3 kids my personal projects aren't progressing very quickly |
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When I am not doing network stuff, I pretend to be a software engineer.
Wait... When I am not doing code stuff, I pretend to be a network engineer. Or something. I get confused a lot. 
I do a lot of development in C, Go, and Python. In the past 20 years, I have also written a lot a lot of code in Assembly, C++, Perl, Lisp, Scheme, Java, and C#. I don't do much in those anymore except I write some Assembly and Scheme for fun. I probably wouldn't turn down another Java job if I was offered large buckets of cash. I am also getting up to speed on R for some data stuff. |
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When I am not doing network stuff, I pretend to be a software engineer. Wait... When I am not doing code stuff, I pretend to be a network engineer. Or something. I get confused a lot.
I do a lot of development in C, Go, and Python. In the past 20 years, I have also written a lot a lot of code in Assembly, C++, Perl, Lisp, Scheme, Java, and C#. I don't do much in those anymore except I write some Assembly and Scheme for fun. I probably wouldn't turn down another Java job if I was offered large buckets of cash. I am also getting up to speed on R for some data stuff. I've been at that point with R. Took a course online from Carnegie Mellon that I enjoyed. I find it tricky for skills development as a lot of technical roles seem to indicate going the path of needing both data analysis skills and techniques while also needing a traditional programming background (or some jobs anyhow). The heavy use of COTS is making things more generic and less interesting to learn on though. |
Not sure if I'm an engineer or not. 
I've been a developer since 2000. The current language du jour is Java which works fine for us. At the moment I'm the lead for a 10-person team. I understand I'm on tap to become the dev mgr but we'll see if it really happens. I just started looking at Ruby last night. Figured it can't hurt. |
| Just wanted so day Hi. I am not a developer, but I work as a real life "TRON" that fights for the user. I am on the business user side and I provide requirements to a development team on behalf of 30K users in a large corporation. I follow the development from DEV through User acceptance and verification testing all the way to production release and any post release fixes. |