The Start Of A New Term

Sean — Mon, 15 May 2006 23:29:31 +0200

So I have been busy lately. That period of time between the end of one term and the start of the next always seems to be the busiest. Finishing up leftover items from the previous term, whether they be papers, projects, or just exams. The learning curve of any new things you have taken on. Any extra curves life throws your way…..

So yeah, I have a new job. Right now I consider myself somewhat ‘freelance’. Not on a strict contract. Not on a LONG contract. Doing some work for a small company downtown doing some work in….... Visual Studio. Geoff Johnston has already said it best with his comment of “I never would have expected to see Sean Smith working in a Microsoft shop”. I can’t even say I am working in .NET, as the code we inherited from another development team (who were fired when we were hired) is written mostly in VB6.

I am learning a lot, while paying the bills, which is a plus at least. Some quick lessons:

VB6 doesn’t really like circular references of objects
Software written without specifications means a lot of things get done, but are either done poorly, or not completed
The Windows APIs are varied in their complexity and in what they can do. For example, I switched several major code blocks to WMI calls already…... except for a few functions which require older calls that were NOT updated to WMI for some reason….... (I never stated I liked writing in VB)
VB6 to .NET does not painlessly migrate (and in fact I haven’t really had a chance to try beyond see 50 critical errors in one module…...). I don’t consider this a bad thing, with some of the VB6 code I have seen so far.

It might not be the best job I have ever had at the moment, but it is somewhat interesting and we shall see how she goes.

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