dat lack of sleep on first day

only 4 devs on my team apparently, including me.

They hired one guy right when I applied, so its 2 new guys + 2 others.

I'll be working on the sign in/authentication software it seems.

Will be training for 2-3 weeks on their shiznit.

Also, VB is so different. Will take awhile to get used to....(so hard NOT putting semi colon at end of statement)

This post was edited by Eep on Jan 5 2015 06:09pm

use a screwdriver to remove the key and put a push pin in its place. you'll stop pressing it pretty quick.

lmfao

I spent most of today watching my trainer do a bunch of cool stuff with our software, with a few snippets of code here and there....Was kind of difficult because it was just a waterfall of knowledge all at once, and we kept getting interrupted lol. Also, I didn't really get to do anything hands-on.

Before I left, I was going to start on one of my training modules and the first thing I had to do was a simple DB query, but I managed to fuck that up by mis-naming the table, then forgetting how to connect to sqlserver, then finally I think I accidentally added my table to the wrong DB.....oh lord

let's hope tomorrow is better

tomorrow you're gonna drop the wrong table in a production database. Oh, you want me to drop the customertempdata table? no problem. DROP TABLE CUSTOMER[tab complete]S; GO

lol. I hope I don't have that problem

But while my trainer was going over things today, every 30 mins or so it was "oh, and make sure you NEVER do this"

I forgot all of those I think :/

slowly starting to learn the horrors of professional world coding practices

We may or may not have had a file which contained 31k+ lines of constants

Well, ....they do use VB.NET. At least they are trying. I wouldn't necessarily say that is standard though. While I may have classes specifically for sectioning constants...31k seems like they just tossed everything in one file...which defeats the purpose of organizing them.


On an unrelated note. Does anyone know this dude? He randomly gave me 4.20 fg. I don't know him, I have never communicated with him. I don't even "420 blaze it yo." ...I haven't even done anything particuarly lolworthy recently.

He's still sending me 4.20 fg ....wtf. This dude is so high.

lmfao

no idea

but yeah.

My team lead always describes our software as....."It works, but in strange ways"....something along those lines.

For example, we have 3 different display windows which are all handled in the same class....which leads to interesting results in the client UI.

Anyways, I am learning a whole bunch, and this is all before I even get to actually coding really. Only coding I've done has been some really simple stuff so far.


I am just thankful that they kind of train you on the software they sell before you start coding features for it. Not sure if that is how it always goes or not.