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pdrg
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 14 December 2013 : 19:51:11
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As in 5 years or so. Blimey.
Lot quieter now than back then, but ASP isn't that widely deployed any more, replaced by either better or cheaper things. Anyway, I joined up here 13 years ago this week, and as I recall was actually a member before some kind of database issue in the late 1990's knocked my account out. Again, blimey.
Anyway, Huw, Shaggy, Rui, Ety, others, hope you're happy and well. I'll have a look round now I'm here, but I won't be around a whole heap. Quit IT industry about 7 years back, now I'm poorer but more content... |
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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Posted - 15 December 2013 : 00:25:30
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Good to see you're still around. It's been a while indeed.
Yeah, classic ASP has had it's days. Replaced with ASP.NET. Technology moves fast.
Huw has been working on a .NET version of Snitz. So all is not totally quiet.
Why you quit IT? It only gets more exciting year after year. |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
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Posted - 15 December 2013 : 03:09:04
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Hey Davio,
Technology outpaced me TBH. There was a time when I could go from vb6 to VBA to ASP not worrying too much about interpreter efficiency in exchange for solving problems. However to get there I'd learnt so many syntaxes along the way, from assembler to FORTRAN to C (without the plusses), various flavours of BASIC, various flavours of SQL, some crazy experimental languages that I didn't realise were dead ends at the time (it was a time of rampant innovation and few/no cellphones).
.NET came along as the next big thing, the future. I was at all the early developer conferences, but version 1 was a bit of a mess compared to now. It was incompatible again with my previous learning and frankly I couldn't face starting from scratch again. I kept up my T-SQL a while, then just did IT program management for MS for a couple of years contract, then quit IT to get (back) into entertainment. Less money, more varied work. Going to put on a show in the desert in a month, f'rinstance. Sunshine in my chilly bones!
I still keep up with the tech press, the register.co.uk, techdirt.com though. I just got tired of relearning over and over. If I'd known the technology was stabilising on .NET so long I might have kept it up!
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Carefree
Advanced Member
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Posted - 15 December 2013 : 03:23:22
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| Hey Paddy, long time. Welcome back. |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 15 December 2013 : 10:16:58
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| Lovely, if slightly unfamiliar to be here! |
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AnonJr
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United States
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Posted - 15 December 2013 : 17:00:10
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It has been a while. Good to hear you're alive and well.  |
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HuwR
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Doug G
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USA
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Posted - 16 December 2013 : 23:16:14
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Hi, glad to see you back here.
I don't know if HuwR still has the old original forum access database, I remember a crash that reset everyone's joined date. I know I'd been around for a few years when that crash happened, I'm wondering what was the actual date I first joined Snitz. I know I joined here very shortly after Snitz was formed, I followed Mike here from the original asp-dev forum.
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17 December 2013 : 05:16:31
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The original crash which resulted in the losing of the dates was a few months before I came along. I joined in sep 2000, not sure at what point I took over the hosting, could probably dig that out of the database somewhere
I didn't even know there was an old original access db, so can't help there. |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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Posted - 17 December 2013 : 07:34:12
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| Yeah, Tim Teal was hosting it back then. Good ole Tim. |
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Doug G
Support Moderator
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Posted - 18 December 2013 : 13:23:14
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Originally posted by HuwR
The original crash which resulted in the losing of the dates was a few months before I came along. I joined in sep 2000, not sure at what point I took over the hosting, could probably dig that out of the database somewhere
I didn't even know there was an old original access db, so can't help there.
When the DB crashed the forums got rebuilt with a new database. For some months there was a link/url to go to the "old" forums to see the pre-crash stuff, since the data didn't get migrated to the rebuilt site. There was a lot of interesting stuff in there about the original development of Snitz.
If you ever should find the old .mdb and were willing to share it I'd love to re-read a lot the old posts.
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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Posted - 18 December 2013 : 18:08:28
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| Don't think I ever got the privilege to see that old data. Would be interesting to see it. The early days of Snitz. |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 December 2013 : 18:23:53
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Ah good I wasn't making it up then! My gosh the internet was a different place back in 2000 and before. NTK was in full flood, BOFH was newish, there certainly weren't any wikis or content platforms like drupal or WordPress. In fact in 2001ish I had to make a publishing platform for a company as there just wasn't what they needed on the market. Geocities was still alive, and we used altavista to find stuff.
Great to see a heap of old names are still here, guess it's as much an old boys social club as a support forum for forum software any more. Nurse will be round with your cocoa later...
There are elements of the IT world I do miss though, I loved every job effectively being research and development. The work I do now is far less demanding mentally, but generally good fun. Sometimes it's working in a stadium or arena putting on some fun shows, other times it's out in Arabia with a bunch of circus performers, huge air conditioners, and enormous tents... Trying to stop the thermal trips on the projectors from cutting out mid-show.
Nothing demanding, but having a methodical mind helps. Actually often it doesn't because you're working with non-technical people who have illogical systems. When you've got 200 cast and crew to deal with, 18000 meals to get to The right people, visas to assign, passports to collect and process etc., you come up with elegant solutions naturally. Issue primary key personnel numbers for instance, and do likewise with walkie talkies and other assets, then barcode passes sao you can keep track... But in reality it's a massive fudge of nontechnical workarounds for people who don't understand data.
For instance one woman will update a spreadsheet of flights (lots of changes of course) without versioning, without (informative) formatting, without fixed other for names, with inconsistent spellings etc... And I have to derive other information from a DELTA of that. I've spent my own money on a licence for Beyond Compare (a great Diffing tool if you ever need one) just to stand a chance with these 30,000 data point sheets. It could all be so elegant with a proper workflow system, but there is zero chance of getting it adopted.
But I still think like a techie, just one disillusioned by the nontechnical world I have to operate in! |
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AnonJr
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Posted - 19 December 2013 : 08:52:19
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