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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...
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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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.
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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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!
How's you?
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!
How's you?
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Hey Paddy, long time. Welcome back.
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Lovely, if slightly unfamiliar to be here!
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It has been a while. Good to hear you're alive and well. 
