The Cydonian's Journal: Work!

Writing this as I wait for the boss to get ready and call me up. Yesterday was Bakrid out here and a public holiday, so today is the start of the week out here. We're heading to a client site today for on-site consultation and development.

Well, the short summary here is that the new job has been extremely satisfying so far. The hours are long, heck, we pulled out a night-out-er last Friday night, but the work is fine and, more importantly, the team is amazing - great bunch of guys, loads and loads of talent, and hard-working (and naturally, ambitious!) to the hilt. Learned quite a lot technically speaking in the past one week; suddenly feeling very confident of myself in coding big projects.

The other fun part is being a part of the industry here. Never realised this, but it's an entirely different environment out in the corporate world, compared to the stuff you get back in academia. Let's put it this way:- remember I was talking about the most evil position possible in the World's Most Evil Company? Yup, I found out how was getting hired to that job (not me of course, and personally, no regrets; I'm really not suited for that kind of thing) a cool five days before the guy himself knew about it! Guy is of course a friend of mine, and quite frankly, I didn't know that he didn't know (although my source knew that he didn't know I knew), but all the same, he seemed to be pissed off when I started gloating about having known that he got the job all along. Which, of course, seemed hilarious to me, at which point, he got even more furious. Oops. :-|

[PeeWeeMan and gokulpod, if you're reading this, you know this guy. Not many people from gokulpod's batch in SoC who graduated along with me (and haven't gone to Stanford. :-) ]

And oh, we're hiring. So, if you have experience in .net, particularly C#, (sound of boos from the /. crowd), and don't mind a career in the High Straits, then do let me know. :-) [Of course, doesn't need a mention that you'll have to expect, well, South East Asian salaries, although they are quite competitive under the current market conditions.]

Sounds cool

[salimma]

I doubt .NET is that unpopular among /. crowds too - it has Ximian's seal of approval after all. Apart from WinForms perhaps.. haven't looked at ASP.NET so can't say about that.

Quite curious. Does your company use C# exclusively or are there some 'developers' raised on VB still using VB.NET? If so, how's the cross-language support in practice?

Re:Sounds cool

[The Cydonian]

Personally, I think this distinction between VB.net and C# is vastly overblown, although it does get people into religious rants here... most seem to prefer C# :-) There is quite a bit of distinction between VB.net and VB 6.0 apparently; unfortunately, my route has mostly been J2EE => C# VB.net

I remember reading somewhere that you can access C# classes through VB.net code and vice versa, so effectively, the only difference I can see is in terms of syntax, case-sensitivity and, perhaps, some back-end st

Re:Sounds cool

[salimma]

This OSNews article [osnews.com] has links to some Mono apps.

The differences between VB.Net and C# are not that great, I agree - they get compiled down to the same IL anyway. This article [asp.net] seems to rebut the referred OSNews article claiming VB.Net is slower at IO, but this highlights an interesting point: VB6 programmers migrating to VB.NET might still code VB6-style.

I personally prefer .NET - Microsoft made a huge step forward over Sun when they standardized the CIL and designed it to accomodate other front-ends (yes,