Re: vb.net developers
From: Rob T (RTorcellini_at_DONTwalchemSPAM.com)
Date: 02/18/05
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:13:39 -0500
Feel free to contact me outside the newsgroups at the walchem..com email
address below.
-Rob T.
"Bob" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:e$Fq7JQFFHA.624@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> My ERP system is already deployed but I would be very interested in
> sharing
> work and ideas with you.
>
> Bob
>
> "Rob T" <RTorcellini@DONTwalchemSPAM.com> wrote in message
> news:uuwM6sGFFHA.2460@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> I'm a VB/SQL programmer (and the IT manager) in the Boston Metrowest
>> area.
>> There is plenty of young VB programmers out there. The problem is that
>> there are few that have a good business sense on how to program
> efficiently.
>> There's always debates, even with more seasoned coders on where some code
>> should go, ie if you should use stored procedures on the SQL server or do
>> the procedures in the VB code. I've seen some pretty bad SQL database
>> structures out there!
>>
>> Back when I used to do some assembly language stuff...I actually had to
>> count how many machine cycles the code could run in and how much memory
>> it
>> would take up...every bite counted. Now, it seems like no one cares much
>> about this, but they should. If you start getting a couple thousand hits
> to
>> a web app, you can choke your server or your Internet bandwidth. Then
>> everyone sits there with their thumbs up their a--es thinking they need
>> to
>> buy a bigger server instead of writing better code. It drives me crazy!
>>
>> I've been a programmer for a long time...as a youngster, I use to write
>> games in BASIC on the Commodore Pet and TRS-80 model I....moved to ABasic
> on
>> a CPM based Osborne and Kaypros, then to GWbasic on the pc's.......ah,
>> the
>> good old days... When M$ started to put Basic into macros like Access
> and
>> Word...everyone thought they could program....probably where the
>> dime-a-dozen term came from.
>>
>> I'm currently writing an ERP system for my company....I'm currently 2
> years
>> into the project, planning on going live in Jan 06. It's a totally self
>> sufficient package with no 3rd party software. You can't get more custom
>> than this package! Do they pay me enough? Probably not, but it's
> constant
>> work and when it's done, I will start to reap the benefits. We're
> currently
>> spending $90K/year in licensing fees for our ERP package....that will
>> basically go down to $0 when we turn this sucker on. Also we have
>> "specialists" that work on this system, which will go away with the old
>> system too.
>>
>> Enough babbling... Are you replaceable? yup...we all are. I think
>> the
>> real question is can they replace you with the same quality for the same
>> money.......?
>
>
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