General / Off-Topic Curious...are you in the [Elite] IT Field?
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I did a degree in Software Engineering, have never used that title ever though.
I'm simply just a developer.
Employee #1 at a start-up also. We're building e-learning music courses, with interactive lessons and automated assessment of MIDI instrumental performances.
Oh but I'm definitely NOT "...in IT..."
Always hated the phrase.
I'm simply just a developer.
Employee #1 at a start-up also. We're building e-learning music courses, with interactive lessons and automated assessment of MIDI instrumental performances.
Oh but I'm definitely NOT "...in IT..."
Always hated the phrase.
First 10 years in normal linux/windows server management and of course some network stuff too.
Nowdays NetApp storage expert, or try to be. Also ofcourse SAN stuff, virtualization etc. Worked with storage devices last 9 years. This includes some services, upgrading, planning, consulting, training and so on, almost everything.
No programming even i do some in free time. Or have been doing since C64-times.
- J
Nowdays NetApp storage expert, or try to be. Also ofcourse SAN stuff, virtualization etc. Worked with storage devices last 9 years. This includes some services, upgrading, planning, consulting, training and so on, almost everything.
No programming even i do some in free time. Or have been doing since C64-times.
- J
Sounds like somebody was abused or bullied by a laserjet when they were younger. Did it bite your fingers when you were changing cartridge or something ?
Almost did the same thing, until I visited a few of the schools around Bristol ...Worked in various IT Jobs for the last 25 years, from programming through systems admin to tech support, and everything in between probably.
Now I have given it up and moved into teaching. I discovered I actually like people.
Sounds like somebody was abused or bullied by a laserjet when they were younger. Did it bite your fingers when you were changing cartridge or something ?
Think triffids but with labels that say Lexmark on the side
Ian Phillips
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25 + years working In IT. Firstly as a COBOL programmer/2nd line support/tester for a bank in England then moved to Holland and have spent 17 years or so doing much the same for a variety of companies, including design work.
No IT degree or other educational qualification - they hadn't been invented when I started!
I miss the 'C' in IT !
Far and away the most problems are caused by LACK of communication. A bug often becomes a problem because of misunderstanding or lack of action - both caused by poor communication. Having been on both sides of the fence - as programmer and as tester I really get irritated by findings that just say 'It doesn't work'. That just means that the tester has not done their work properly!
Currently on a system test team for Dutch Telecom, and doing liason for the ongoing transfer of applications to India (as an example of communication in action).
I get to join the second round of Beta testing for E: D
No IT degree or other educational qualification - they hadn't been invented when I started!
I miss the 'C' in IT !
Far and away the most problems are caused by LACK of communication. A bug often becomes a problem because of misunderstanding or lack of action - both caused by poor communication. Having been on both sides of the fence - as programmer and as tester I really get irritated by findings that just say 'It doesn't work'. That just means that the tester has not done their work properly!
Currently on a system test team for Dutch Telecom, and doing liason for the ongoing transfer of applications to India (as an example of communication in action).
I get to join the second round of Beta testing for E: D
Chief Engineer at a UK GIS company, still getting my hands dirty occasionally but mostly telling other folk what to do these days.
Been in the industry since 1987, initially for a full-flight simulator company. A couple of the projects I worked on between the Elite and Frontier releases are StarGazer and Commander from this page. That's the site of a guy I used to work with, not mine! I miss those days sometimes
Been in the industry since 1987, initially for a full-flight simulator company. A couple of the projects I worked on between the Elite and Frontier releases are StarGazer and Commander from this page. That's the site of a guy I used to work with, not mine! I miss those days sometimes
Been in IT for the NHS for 15 years. Network Specialist is the job title, Its changed 6 times. The company i've worked for has changed 3 times, the dartment has changed 4 times.
But I still do the same stuff, with the same people, for the same people, in the same buildings, and get paid by the same NHS authority.... Typical NHS to me.
I look after about 60 odd NHS sites internal network and firewalls and stuff. So as me and my line manager have worked hard to automate things, I drink tea.
But I still do the same stuff, with the same people, for the same people, in the same buildings, and get paid by the same NHS authority.... Typical NHS to me.
I look after about 60 odd NHS sites internal network and firewalls and stuff. So as me and my line manager have worked hard to automate things, I drink tea.
Slopey
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+16 years being an IT Director with several different hats on - more recently telling people what to do rather than getting hands dirty, but having lots of fun with Titanium for Android/iOS and mucking around with tablets.
Also wrote a fairly popular cargo company add-on for Flight Sim, and playing with Unity which one day I'd like to write a space game for the iPad with (largely having 100 Cobra Mk III models flying around for my own amusement).
Looking forward to the DDF
Also wrote a fairly popular cargo company add-on for Flight Sim, and playing with Unity which one day I'd like to write a space game for the iPad with (largely having 100 Cobra Mk III models flying around for my own amusement).
Looking forward to the DDF
Software engineer by qualification, but now a telecoms planning specialist.
guilty here too
Now in Aus fixing everyones issues in a big company with 2 initials.
Now I get to throw away Gantt charts and project plans and actually get to give the customer what they wanted in the first place before the sales people got involved. Interesting but frustrating too.
Cloud / Data centre vM, H-V, Win, anything and everything. oh and it feels like too long sometimes lol
Now in Aus fixing everyones issues in a big company with 2 initials.
Now I get to throw away Gantt charts and project plans and actually get to give the customer what they wanted in the first place before the sales people got involved. Interesting but frustrating too.
Cloud / Data centre vM, H-V, Win, anything and everything. oh and it feels like too long sometimes lol
I totally owe my career to the original Elite. It was the only game I've ever been addicted to, and those weeks and months of flying my Cobra Mk III heavily influenced my future vocations.
My first stab at a career led to me being Editor of Acorn User magazine - which I'd read since I was 14 - though the BBC Micro had given way to the Archimedes by the time I appeared on the scene. However, we still managed to get an Elite-flavoured scoop in the August 1995 issue, whose cover disk contained the full version of Archimedes Elite, often regarded as the best version of the original Elite. That was a good day.
I then spent the dot-com boom working for Douglas Adams as the Editor of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Earth Edition), an online precursor to Wikipedia and My Space that's still pottering along at h2g2.com. That was fun, too, until the Mostly Harmless dot-com environment turned Dangerous and then Deadly, and we all got sold to the BBC. I'm still waiting for my Ferrari.
Since then I've concentrated on web programming and content management. Looking back, it's clear that the original Elite cemented my fascination with programming, and the brilliant manual and novella fed my life-long love of good writing (I *still* enjoy reading them). I now bring technology and content together in my work, and it's all thanks to Elite.
And I'm hoping that ED will lead to the next stage of my career: semi-retirement. I can't wait!
My first stab at a career led to me being Editor of Acorn User magazine - which I'd read since I was 14 - though the BBC Micro had given way to the Archimedes by the time I appeared on the scene. However, we still managed to get an Elite-flavoured scoop in the August 1995 issue, whose cover disk contained the full version of Archimedes Elite, often regarded as the best version of the original Elite. That was a good day.
I then spent the dot-com boom working for Douglas Adams as the Editor of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Earth Edition), an online precursor to Wikipedia and My Space that's still pottering along at h2g2.com. That was fun, too, until the Mostly Harmless dot-com environment turned Dangerous and then Deadly, and we all got sold to the BBC. I'm still waiting for my Ferrari.
Since then I've concentrated on web programming and content management. Looking back, it's clear that the original Elite cemented my fascination with programming, and the brilliant manual and novella fed my life-long love of good writing (I *still* enjoy reading them). I now bring technology and content together in my work, and it's all thanks to Elite.
And I'm hoping that ED will lead to the next stage of my career: semi-retirement. I can't wait!