I see why Bob is taking the jobs. Dev work is eazy....

[HairyArsedBloke]

The thing is HAB, you knew what you wanted.

Most clients don't.

Which is where having a developer who speaks English and doesn't need the various meanings of "haircut" "margin" and "yield" explained to him/her is a positive boon.

This is very true. I may not be a techie anymore, but I do know the business domain very well.

[xoggoth]

Yeh. I was amazed how quick it was to knock up a blog comment thingy with anti spam and comment removal functions in mySQL and PHP from lots of odd bits off the net. Can't imagine it would be acceptable in a commercial application as they have all these daft rules about standards. One could write an aircraft control system in about 6 months if they didn't make such a fuss about a few crashes. Trial and error is a perfectly good approach in my view.

PS Matlab is widely used in avionics industry, or used to be anyway.