I Am a Programmer

(This post is for a friend of mine who knows HTML but who isn't a programmer)

Anyone else find 64 members in this group amusing? :-D

-Anyway-

It wasn't that long ago serverside scripting languages were new to me... I hate...

I am a BASIC programmer. I taught myself on a Commodore 64 and progressed to Casio BASIC, QBasic, Visual Basic, and now Gambas in Linux.

There oughta be a gizmo that scans through all the code on an Oracle instance and tells you every place that has the potential to modify a table or column.  I'm looking now to see what TOAD can do in this area, but so far I'm...

I've recently started teaching myself python. I think I've gotten to the point where I'd like to take a stab at OpenGL. I don't know what exactly I plan to do with any programming, but I know that I enjoy writing up python scripts and...

And most people consider it weird because I'm a girl. Love programming since I was a teenager. I like to get into the details, in depth, therefore ASM is my pick. Don't like using compilers written by other ppl because I usually get...

I think any tool geeks use should have a feature where you can highlight any text and with a right click make that text uppercase...
Why?
Database identifier names!  They are by convention uppercase to most people.
But when I'm...

Once I took a job as a PHP developer but was put on a ColdFusion project (which I did not know how to program in beforehand)... So to learn the PHP Zend framework (something I thought I was going to need once finally put on a PHP ...

I think saying "I'm a programmer" is like saying you're "a grammatician" or "a linguist".. it's not very descriptive of what you do, or how you do it.

It's all about the end product result. What do I do? In various stages of my life...

I'm replying here cause a friend asked. His question was about C# which I don't know.... I'm answering from Java-only perspective. Maybe a C# programmer can add where I may be missing anything

First of all this is from Java...

There's a software application I'm working on that has a strange bug.  In this program, some previous developer decided that they would take huge amounts of data entered by a user (a big table of something displayed on the screen...

At work someone has asked me what database columns a certain set of processes modifies.
I just wanna go "Beats me.  Depends on what happens in the that several thousand lines of code" :-D
So what I got so far is this...

I've been a programmer for a government agency for 2.5 years. I program web-based applications in Java.

You got these programming languages like PHP where all variables are essentially "variants" (you can suddenly stick text in a variable that was priorly containing an number, etc, etc)... Though this can be convenient sometimes...

It looks like this group's been kinda dead, so here's something to try to kick-start it:

Anyone out there do any Flex development? I'm starting to do some of it for work (I have a heavy Java background). So far I like it; it makes...

I like C++, Java.
I have do this job for more than 2 years.
I am good at web program more than desktop software develop.But it NOT means I don't like desktop software program.
I'd like to be a friend of You.