General / Off-Topic Curious...are you in the [Elite] IT Field?

Boback

Boback
Set up a small company back in late 80s to do music and soundFX for Amiga. Actually met David at ECTS, and sat around the table while he was talking about what he was going to develop next (I think it was Virus, I could be wrong. Though remember him demoing Virus)

Went onto become a web designer (back then included coding too) during the dot.com era and moved on to 3D animation and graphics only after the burst (dot.com, not me)

Now art director at one of the 3 big broadcasting houses. 99% of the time working on iOS and Android.
 

Shamirr

Shamirr
SW developer for 20years.

In games I'm usually enjoying graphics and AI. So that's what I'm curious about in E: D too.
And while I usually hate system tests, here I'm looking forward to it. Maybe because I'm not the one to do bugfixing ;).
 

CharlesN

CharlesN
Shamirr said:
SW developer for 20years.

In games I'm usually enjoying graphics and AI. So that's what I'm curious about in E: D too.
And while I usually hate system tests, here I'm looking forward to it. Maybe because I'm not the one to do bugfixing ;).
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hahah, my thoughts exactly!
 

Celandri

C
pretty fun to see all these it people, well its good though, lots of quality checks then :)
wonder how many ED vs SC are in IT,
 

Bladesteel

B
bigjizzy said:
FD should count themselves lucky that, should they choose they could draw on the wealth of experience available to them..
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They've got a bunch of pledges from people that will recognize any bull**** excuses for what they are, since most of us have been one the delivering end of those excuses before. They should be terrified. :D


<troll>and for the record: vi is better than emacs</troll>
 

mamolian

M
Soon to be IT graduate (June), hmm I'm really looking forward to either scraping data, or using any API Frontier Developments offer the community about the market and other game statistics :)

Prolly go make a fan site then to put the data to use, or perhaps a smartphone app.
 

Commander Regel

C
Another IT bod signing in... Infrastructure Architect and System Administrator working for a very big UK company. Some of you have probably come into contact with our software (sorry).

I'm hoping that Elite:Dangerous will be sufficiently complex in its design that it manages to create an environment that makes me feel that I'm in a real, living universe. I want the rules of the in game universe to result in situations that make sense even though they aren't programmed directly.
 

brycec

B
And yet another IT bod signing in... Security implementation and consultant engineer.... Sounds flashy but it basically means I play with firewalls, IPS and proxy devices all day for a large UK telecommunications company.
 

Memnoch

M
Check Point by any chance? If so what do you think of their IPS i.e. how many exceptions have you had to create for it? ;)
 

JKF

JKF
Started in 1978 on a mini-mainframe using a language called MUMPS. Used it to pull off P&L reports for month end accounts; saved me loads of time.

After that I spent a few years designing and building ancillary equipment for command and control systems, traffic control, etc. Used BBC Master 128 boards for many projects (6502 assembler) interfaced to all sorts of gear, plus Archimedes in a few projects. Eventually moved on to much more compact boards and custom interfaces.

Also spent a few years in telecoms equipment design, mostly writing firmware or client software; not much hardware design though.

These days it's mostly database design/build and website development/hosting. I work from home and tend to cherry pick the jobs now. Quite enjoyed writing a Windows Phone app recently but damned annoyed how MS just like to dump users every other OS or so.
 

CMDR_FeloniousMonk

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Yup, another IT geek here. I think that old BBC model B (well, it was actually an upgraded model A) started the whole thing off for me. Currently, I'm a SAN Consultant for the Enterprise Services arm of a huge American IT company. In the past I've been a Service Delivery Manager, OpenVMS Systems Manager, and I started out as a humble PDP11 & VAX Operator. I now feel rather old!
 

Andy Kappa

Andy Kappa
I'm a former I.T. geek. Wrote my first proper program in Algol 60 :)eek:) many, many, maaaannny years ago.

Up until a few years ago I used to build my own PC's from scratch.

You know what though? I've realised there are other things out there to see and do. These days I buy Dells, and apart from being a bit paranoid about security I don't give a rat's proverbial as long as they do what I ask of them without coming over all fragile.

I just don't care. :p
 

mob2001

mob2001
JKF said:
These days it's mostly database design/build and website development/hosting. I work from home and tend to cherry pick the jobs now. Quite enjoyed writing a Windows Phone app recently but damned annoyed how MS just like to dump users every other OS or so.
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Know what you mean about MS on WP, have got a WP7 device but will upgrade to WP8 - I think with the changes in the hw and kernel there was no path for migration, think WP7 was a "demo", WP8 a "trial"....
Been doing C++,C# .NET/SQL for a while now, learnt Silverlight - now being killed off (although can see where MS want to go - "one ring to rule them all" - Blue). Enjoying VS2012 even with the grey colour scheme and the few gotchas (removing of setup projs).
Been doing WinCE/WM/PC/Server development for businesses, tried WP7 have not tried WP8 yet, but looking forward to some pet projects with it and W8 combined (NFC).
Also looking forward to some Elite testing:)
 

JFK

J
Queue up niche IT job. Have specialised in Enterprise Event Management mostly for finance sector big bad boys since leaving uni. That's system/network/application/security monitoring when you remove the corporate ITIL veneer. Or in plain speak "Automatically detecting something of interest has happened and getting that info to someone or something that cares" .

~John
 

Bladesteel

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JKF said:
Started in 1978 on a mini-mainframe using a language called MUMPS. Used it to pull off P&L reports for month end accounts; saved me loads of time.
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Is this the same MUMPS that has featured multiple times on thedailywtf.com ? If so you have my sympathy.
 

Mobius

Mobius
Old but still a classic IT joke.

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Sinraa

Sinraa
IT geek also. Been doing IT support for 13 years now. I currently head up the IT support team for a secondary school. So I do a little bit of most things.

Of all the places I have worked schools are by far the strangest. So I fit in well :)
 
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