Forward Moving
by KieranToday I accepted a job offer to work in a finance firm as an in-house software developer in VB.NET and SQL. I’ve never had anything against Microsoft’s .NET technologies (or languages), however, I’ll always stand by the "it’s nothing new" saying. Java had essentially achieved the same thing beforehand, that being the JRE. Microsoft’s equivalent was the .NET framework which is a VM in itself unknowingly to end-users.
In terms of language and library features, I did have to use C#.NET when I was working for Symantec for a few small internal tools related to my job. The libraries were scarily similar to Java’s. The only thing I haven’t been keen on with Microsoft is their ability to introduce a hoard of language features which I never thought particularly good. One of my previous rants included partial classes, generic getter/setter method, combining the functionality into one etcetera. My personal belief is that everything should be very explicit. Language features such as these are the "slang of English" as so to speak and can cause fuzzy edges diminishing understandability of code.
Whilst I’ve never worked in VB I’m quite looking forward to the opportunities this job is going to bring, and the people I’m going to work with. I’ve met two of the people I’ll be working with and both of which seem extremely down to earth. Hopefully my skills will be able to add much more to the company, and I’m especially looking forward to perhaps implementing some newer features as a personal touch to my job.
All of this is quite the culmination as I’m soon due to be married, plus a career, plus my degree, a house, a cat and more. I’m twenty-two years old going on forty-five as many have told me (although, many have also told me I’m a splitting image of Gok Wan).
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Congrats on the job. And when I saw an article on Gok Wan the other day I did think he looks a little bit like you