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Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 7:45 pm
by jason
Ahem...yeah, except we make the games we play for a living.

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:48 pm
by protokol
I'm a college student at
Ohio University studying computer science. I do web design/development for anyone who needs it. Currently I am designing web pages and PHP scripts for 2 organizations and 3 individual clients.
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 10:47 pm
by gotDNS
I'm 15...I don't have a job but freelance sites, and whatever I feel like writing....

the life...
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 11:20 pm
by lc
Lol jason

sounds like a sweet job to me!
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 12:27 am
by hob_goblin
i will probably work at either:
the grocery store
government (w/ my dad.. he can get me a job doing a little computer work)
the pool's snack bar
fast food biz
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 2:29 am
by phpPete
I'm 41 presently "in between opportunities" and I pay the bills by bartending at the moment...
I recently finished a year long programming course, now I'm concentrating on elevating my skills to the level of application developer.
If all goes well I'll be moving to Italy in January to open a satellite office of a consulting firm I'm involved with...

Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 7:28 am
by MattF
I am 16, about to start 6th form at
Heathfield CC. In my spare time I work on my parents farm and hang about on IRC plus code a bit.
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 3:48 pm
by cheatboy00
well I'm 16.... turning 17 next month(22)
i create sites of all kind. from rpgs, to stories etc...
I'm a writer and have a few published works in canada and 1 poem published in america.
I create music... i guess you can call it DJing just for video games and things i create
Yes i program my own craptacular video games... though i'm trying to get a good one going.. ya knwo like that actually looks nice and not somethign made in 5 minutes.
I go to high school attending grade 11/12.. I have 2 more years including this one...
though i'd like to work at stream... or any place really that could get me some income...
and well thats what i do.
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 2:36 am
by twigletmac
I'm 23 graduated university a year ago and am currently working for a local authority as a web developer. Convinced them to change to PHP from ASP and they've extended my contract by a year and a bit so they must like me... Being a public servant is nice and cushy and I even got to go on strike last month...
Mac
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 11:34 am
by JPlush76
livin off "the man"

Student and...
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 10:51 am
by AVATAr
Im student in the Catholic University here in Uruguay (
http://www.ucu.edu.uy) finishing my career of Informatic Engineering. Im starting my master thesis (Urban traffic, p2p networks, and stuff).
I work for three private schools as an informatic consultant (trying to move them to linux, php, mysql... im making that!!! yeah!)...
Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 5:21 pm
by BDKR
nielsene wrote:
I'm in the Air Force, a little between projects this week so I have more time to brush up on general skills. I use PHP at work, but most of my PHP experiences comes from working on my Master's thesis part-time.
I'd love to hear about that thesis, if it's not like top secret or something.
Anyways, I'm a network/sysadmin for a company running lotteries in Venezueala. I designed and manage a Highly aviailable load balanced cluster with like four floppy based firewalls and two Cisco routers thrown in there as well. At this point, I'm also the DBA at this time, but as things grow, I'm suggesting we change that.
All fun!
Later on,
BDKR
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 10:03 am
by nielsene
My thesis is nothing too fancy. The requirements for a Masters of Engineering thesis at my school just require a large software project, doesn't really have to be orginal research, just good experience. It doesn't relate at all to my AF job.
Specifically I'm writing a suite of applications for use in the competitive ballroom dance community for planning and running competitions. The main tool being developed for the thesis portion is an on-line registration tool. At first glance it sounds quite simple, but there are lots of little corners that are fun/interesting to code because of the details of how these competitions work. A secondary tool is used to configure the first, by ask the organizer a series of questions. When completed it write out several blocks of code that are included at run time into the main tool. These blocks are typically things like complicated html forms, or long switch statements. This was done to avoid having to do extremely costly database queries on every page for information that doesn't change within a given competition. The main tool also outputs static html files for its statistics page on updates to keep the server load down. LaTeX is also created and converted to PDF to generate invoices and similar "printed products". My school used the software last spring; and I have four regional school using it this fall.
Currently I'm adding the authentication/authorization piece to give the competition organizers the ability to do some of hte routine maintence themselves. (The basic registration process involves no login, as logging in for a single visit is silly).
So its nothing too fancy, but its grown with me as I've learned more about DBA-ing and cron. More information if you're interested along with the latest source code is at
Project Summary Page (SF.net)
At work my PHP experience was modifiying a debian-sf (offsite install of SourceForge) site to be more useful to the DoD.
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 12:26 pm
by codewarrior
Software Developer, mainly C/C++, in Grad School,
Keller Grad School of Management. Learning PHP to explore the Web side of programming.
Mmmm what do I do?
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 3:34 pm
by Gavski
I spend most of the day lying around, no serious!
Major back injury has forced me into trying to change careers. I was grad Biochemist/Engineer (strange combination) but now I am desperately trying to learn web programming, I'm in the middle of building my first site, learning mostly from books; sometimes hard but forums are my saviour.