The OFFICIAL programming thread

@gustaf said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I can’t remember the last time I was asked write documentation. Must have been a decade ago. Me and my current boss maintain each others code all the time and it’s rare that either of us had to ask the other “wtf are you doing here”. We’re both pretty good coders though even if I do say so myself.

Edit: We’re both also mostly writing medium sized web apps and the backend services to support them. Not mission control launch programs.

What kind of web apps?

Any and everything from logistics, manufacturing, production, to HR processes. Some might include heavy visualization elements, workflow and process logic, others aren’t much more than glorified forms.

Edit: the customer has an ERP system that most of our apps act as a front end to. There’s backend enhancements where necessary but we aren’t usually writing whole systems from scratch - it’s just that all new UIs are generally web front ends.

Kilemall

So, you’re a dashboard/user UI guy, with various DB queries underneath buttons?

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

So, you’re a dashboard/user UI guy, with various DB queries underneath buttons?

Well it’s a little more involved than just DB queries on the backend but yeah. For most new apps I’ll have to write the rest service. That might have anywhere from as little as 3 or as many as 15 nodes representing different entities. There’s all the usual design concerns when building that. For each service entity and the CRUD operations etc we write API classes that are independent of the REST service so that you could recode the front end in any tech and it should just work the same.

Often I’ll have to create new database tables to store or track something that doesn’t fit into one of the existing ERP objects/tables. Sometimes it’s a complete new process that just isn’t met by the ERP so it will be all new tables. But we try and use the existing ERP processes as much as possible even though it’s often more work to do it that way.

Anyway, that’s what pays the bills. I do more interesting and varied programming in my own time.

Nerds

Kilemall

@zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Nerds

People who make and maintain the systems that make your civilization work, you mean.

Just like farmers.

Or ranchers, riding the IT range, herding those data dogies.

tigger

And tranchers.

Lob12

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Nerds

People who make and maintain the systems that make your civilization work, you mean.

Just like farmers.

You had my sympathy but then the 2nd sentence kinda blew that away.

Gustaf

@lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Nerds

People who make and maintain the systems that make your civilization work, you mean.

Just like farmers.

You had my sympathy but then the 2nd sentence kinda blew that away.

True. Liberals hate farmers. All those cow farts and water usage.

Lob12

@gustaf said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Nerds

People who make and maintain the systems that make your civilization work, you mean.

Just like farmers.

You had my sympathy but then the 2nd sentence kinda blew that away.

True. Liberals hate farmers. All those cow farts and water usage.

You’d hate farmers too if you had to live what LOT has to go through every winter. Just wait, young child.

Lithu

@lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@gustaf said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Nerds

People who make and maintain the systems that make your civilization work, you mean.

Just like farmers.

You had my sympathy but then the 2nd sentence kinda blew that away.

True. Liberals hate farmers. All those cow farts and water usage.

You’d hate farmers too if you had to live what LOT has to go through every winter. Just wait, young child.

Not necessarily. Hurricane season is coming, farmers come back early if we get a real hurricane and not barely canes

Lob12

Ah really, his farm isn’t’'cane proof? hawr hawr hawr

Tazz

Blanks

Gustaf has missed all the farmer wars of LOT

Lob12

@blanks said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Gustaf has missed all the farmer wars of LOT

Draft dodgin’ Gustaf

Gators1

@lithu said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@gustaf said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Nerds

People who make and maintain the systems that make your civilization work, you mean.

Just like farmers.

You had my sympathy but then the 2nd sentence kinda blew that away.

True. Liberals hate farmers. All those cow farts and water usage.

You’d hate farmers too if you had to live what LOT has to go through every winter. Just wait, young child.

Not necessarily. Hurricane season is coming, farmers come back early if we get a real hurricane and not barely canes

Don’t see how. They aren’t even projected to be in the top 20.

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Gustaf

@blanks said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Gustaf has missed all the farmer wars of LOT

I love me some farmin’! Do we post pics of our crop? I got a TON this spring!

TheMouse

@lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Ah really, his farm isn’t’'cane proof? hawr hawr hawr

Of course it is…its actually uber cane proof!!! just you wait and see!!

I can easily switch between tabs and spaces, 2 spaces or 4 space indentation etc. I prefer Vim over Emacs but whatever floats your boat. Two things I can’t abide though are:

In 3D, Z is up, not Y, you assholes
They’re called “integers” not “integrals” ffs, stop polluting your language and APIs with a misnomer.

I’m ready to go to war over these last two so come at me.

Kilemall

@hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I can easily switch between tabs and spaces, 2 spaces or 4 space indentation etc. I prefer Vim over Emacs but whatever floats your boat. Two things I can’t abide though are:

Z is up, not Y, you assholes

They’re called “integers” not “integrals” ffs, stop polluting your language and APIs with a misnomer.

I’m ready to go to war over these last two so come at me.

Hell if I care, I’m dealing with JCL and IBM screen/AFP definitions, ain’t got no time for Unix editors or APIs.

rote7

@hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I can easily switch between tabs and spaces, 2 spaces or 4 space indentation etc. I prefer Vim over Emacs but whatever floats your boat.

Spaces are clearly superior. You will keep your indent levels even if some idiot redefined a tab to be 8 spaces wide.

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