Which sector are you working in ?

[Arch4ngel]

Im in computing and graduated. I know that computing can touch many many many (and again) many fields of work.

But what about .NET that is new ... in which field are you working in ?

What is the company that throw themselves into .NET ?
Are you pleasing yourself there ?

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On my own... Im working in a telecommunication company.
Im currently working at Bell Canada and its fun and really familiar as work atmosphere.

What about you ?

 

[Rick_Fla]

I work for a Occupational Health Care company. We have a few in-house applications that I help maintain.

 

[iebidan]

I work for the biggest Oil company in the world.
An we do every development under .NET

 

[ThePentiumGuy]

note: im a hobbyist (15 years old)

>But what about .NET that is new ... in which field are you working in ?
game development..
What is the company that throw themselves into .NET ?
i applied for www.dominusonline.com is the game site, www.digitalmeltstudios.com is the company, vb.net / direct3d FPS/RPG hybrid
Are you pleasing yourself there ?
yeah, i submitted my application in, waiting for a reply, but ive talked to some of the members of the team, it looks like a friendly place

 

[techmanbd]

I work in the manufacturing world. I write Automated tests with .NET and capture data to put in a database.

 

[PWNettle]

I tought myself how to program on an Atari 800 ages ago when I was about 14. I went to college for 6.5 years but never did graduate - or pick a major. I hated programming courses in college. Ive been programming for over 20 years and have been getting paid to program for about 8 years.

But what about .NET that is new ... in which field are you working in ?

For me, as someone who mostly used VB and ASP for 6+ of those 8 years, the more robust OOP implementation is new and very welcome in .Net. Im a big fan of OOP and VB6s implementation was very lacking.

I work for a company thats involved in the vacation/leisure field - we develop and brand web apps for dotcoms and corporate use. We have clients ranging from mom & pop online travel agencies to huge corporations and we also do intranet apps/maint, network support, and help desk for our (vacation/leisure-oriented) parent company.

What is the company that throw themselves into .NET ?

Weve been doing ASP.Net and tons of C# stuff (data objects, web services, etc) for about a year and a half - which is also how long Ive been with this company. We also have a lot of Java/JSP developers and about half of our development is of that flavor.

Are you pleasing yourself there ?

Despite suck projects here and there I love my job. Its a casual (shorts/t-shirts) environment. I usually work more than 40 hrs/wk but I can come in as late as 10am, leave before 5, and VPN in to work from home for the rest of my time. It works great for me because I like to be comfortable when Im coding and sometimes Id rather stay up til 2am cranking out code than be chained to my desk during the "work day".

Paul

 

[samsmithnz]

I work for a strategic consulting company (http://www.bain.com). I develop internal .NET applications for our 26-odd offices around the world. I like it.

 

[davie]

I work for a Foreign Exchange Company. Interesting work as we are now taking all of our three main systems in house and redeveloping them into thin-client .Net applications.

 

[VBAHole22]

I work in the GIS field. Making applications to put maps on the web and for field technicians to collect surveying information in the field using maps.

Its pretty cool. I just started a while back and I put VB6 to bed and do everything in VB.NET now.

I fairly certain that pleasing oneself at work is verboten here

 

[Joe Mamma]

I work in the GIS field. Making applications to put maps on the web and for field technicians to collect surveying information in the field using maps.

Its pretty cool. I just started a while back and I put VB6 to bed and do everything in VB.NET now.

I fairly certain that pleasing oneself at work is verboten here

GIS???

What package do you use? ARCInfo? MapInfo?
I love GIS!
My first job was at nextel doing market research, ROI and network planning.

Damn I want to get back in that field.

 

[sjn78]

I work in GIS as well....we use MapInfo. Work for local council and we maintain all the infrastructure citywide.

We are actually looking to use Sql Server as the backend for the GIS data, only problem is Sql doesnt hold the mapped object. Oracle did though, but its too expensive to go council wide (1000+ seats).

You can have my job Joe Mamma!! I want to get out of it to be honest. 6 yrs of mapping sewerage mains is giving me the sh*ts!!

Might be moving to Arc in the near future as the next version of MapInfo goes to .NET and our IT people cant handle that problem or maybe they dont want to.

 

[Bodybag]

Recently moved from telecomunication sector to the health sector.My job is mantaining Sql servers.Development of applications and web pages all in .net.Have been programming for a living for about 18 months.Greatest job on the planet.

 

[VBAHole22]

We are strickly ESRI (ArcMap, ArcInfo, ArcServer). But we do either SQL Server or Oracle for backend RDBMS.

Alot has changed in the ESRI world. They have just released their 9.0 software and things have expanded to a grander scale. They now have ArcServer which is like a networked GIS. You centralize the Objects and you server them on the web over an Intranet.

They claim to be .NET friendly but they are still COM components. So you are basically going through the COM wrapper to get at the objects. Its bulky and even they suggest that if you have to do heavy lifting you create a dll and let the COM do the work. They are basically still at the VB6 level.

But I like it. We do stuff for PDAs and field notepads and stuff like that.
I have been a VB hack for about 3 years now. Im trying to inject some OOP into all of the code I write but sometimes I have a hard time seeing the class from the procedures (like the forest for the trees).

 

[JRichmond]

Im working for a custom software company. Right now Im creating ASP.net intranet web pages for a healthcare company.