Reply to: CV advice

[suityou01]

The agent has made the right decision and is doing the job an agent should do. Filter out the dross.

In the current market there will be many good C/C++ bods available with plenty of commercial experience. After all, if you were a client who would you choose - a hobbyist or a pro?

I guess if I had only every used it as a hobbyist I would agree with that. I do have many years commercial experience, but it's too long ago apparently. And any recent experience is, as you say, hobbyist.

I think it's scary, and does bear out some of the fears people have over being on the bench for extended periods of time. Soon, using the tools in your bench time to keep your skills sharp will no longer be enough.

[Turion]

The agent has made the right decision and is doing the job an agent should do. Filter out the dross.

In the current market there will be many good C/C++ bods available with plenty of commercial experience. After all, if you were a client who would you choose - a hobbyist or a pro?

[Dark Black]

This is C++. It's beyond you script kiddies.

HTH

Well said

[suityou01]

But can it bind to a datagrid?

Seriously tugging yourself off over that one aren't you.

I said I was humouring ClientCo.

[DimPrawn]

Plan b involved a kernel mode driver (written in C)
The front end is written in C, using the GTK+ framework.

Choice was, at the time I did not want to have to fork out for expensive IDEs, and opted for open source GNU C.

Runs like hot snot, compiles down to BA and it is not dependant on any girlie JIT compilers and frameworks.

But can it bind to a datagrid?

[suityou01]

Ah, C++. My first love as a programmer. Using it on a project right now, didn't think there was much demand for it outside the games sector though.

If I may ask, why is your plan B using C++, when you presumably had free choice to pick anything you wanted?

Plan b involved a kernel mode driver (written in C)
The front end is written in C, using the GTK+ framework.

Choice was, at the time I did not want to have to fork out for expensive IDEs, and opted for open source GNU C.

Runs like hot snot, compiles down to BA and it is not dependant on any girlie JIT compilers and frameworks.

[Platypus]

didn't think there was much demand for it outside the games sector though

There's plenty still around, I'm involved in a project in the financial sector where there are 4 million lines of C++ code.

[sasguru]

This is C++. It's beyond you script kiddies.

HTH

Ah but Dim gets £500 per day for his script skills. Has done since the 70s apparently

[d000hg]

This is C++. It's beyond you script kiddies.

HTH

Ah, C++. My first love as a programmer. Using it on a project right now, didn't think there was much demand for it outside the games sector though.

If I may ask, why is your plan B using C++, when you presumably had free choice to pick anything you wanted?

[Zippy]

In a bad market you have to fit a role badly to get it?!
You have to be a pain and cause a split?!

Some analogies can appear as apt as an undersized condom........

Rub people up the wrong way?

[Drewster]

.....you have to fit the role like an undersized condom.

In a bad market you have to fit a role badly to get it?!
You have to be a pain and cause a split?!

Some analogies can appear as apt as an undersized condom........

[suityou01]

Don't mention array's or data grids.

This is C++. It's beyond you script kiddies.

HTH

[DimPrawn]

Advice please?

Don't mention array's or data grids.

[Platypus]

I finmd all condoms undersized.

Yes, I'm sure you do SFW

[BrilloPad]

WHS.

But in this market, you have to fit the role like an undersized condom.

I finmd all condoms undersized.