From hacking live systems with crossed fingers, to a structured development/candidate/release system. From no source control and no backups, to a sensible CVS setup. From obsolete whitebox hardware, to funky branded servers. And from Windows XP, to Debian Sarge. I’m enjoying the new job , but sadly things will be a little quieter here whilst I get on with it.
Long time reader, first time poster (I think…). What kind of stuff will you be doing at your new job? Enquiring geeks want to know :)
? hacking live systems? u never did that did u? ;-)
we the people you are reffering to now have cvs, dev, test, live and all the developers are on *nix (x’cept the .net guy!)
…some branded box’s to!, though some of the old ones are also still kicking round…
patience is a virtue.
…bah, ‘del’ and ‘ins’ arnt allowed tags…
Heh, I actually wasn’t referring to you guys at all. Good point though, it certainly applies in places to when I was there!
Glad to hear things are set up a little more sensibly now though!
Will add del and ins to the allowed tags, can’t see any point in stripping them.
Sean, I’m mostly coding OO Perl on a PostgreSQL backend, on nice meaty Linux servers.
My last position was mostly coding ungodly-spaghetti-style Perl on a MS-SQL backend, on wooden servers held together with blu-tack and chewing gum.
good luck with your new job ! I hope you have some hot female co-workers, you know, for motivational purposes ;)