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Friday, March 3, 2006

Users!

It's so great to be producing software that goes to actual users. Rather than merely producing demo after fraudulent demo of code that will likely never see the light of day in a working system used by actual people (a situation that often arises in the government space, where contractors continue to get money through pork contracts despite never producing anything of actual value), I get to write code for a company that has real products/services (and is subject to the free market), and my code will have an impact on the company's bottom line. It feels good!

Update: Heh, as John Gruber writes: "real software ships". That's going in my quotes.

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Elling wrote:

What kind of software is it you're writing?

∴ Elling | 4-Mar-2006 4:36am est | #9245

Nothing glamorous; I'm contracting for WebMD (now Emdeon) and building mostly web-based software for both internal and external customers... things like client-support, sales, operations, CRM, and so on.

∴ Keith | 4-Mar-2006 11:49am est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #9247

Hannibal wrote:

It's all about enterprise development and integration using (mostly) Microsoft technologies and practices.

Glamour? Phhh. Hard work is its own reward. Being 100% free of Java and mendacity is its own reward also.

∴ Hannibal | 5-Mar-2006 11:16am est | #9252

Being 100% free of Java and mendacity is its own reward also.

Aaand how!

∴ Keith | 5-Mar-2006 11:20am est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #9253

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