RE: [aus-dotnet] Where to look for the .NET jobs?

[Tusler, Dylan]

 

I spent many months in the UK working on bugfixing previous versions my our company's software. It was some of the most challenging and exciting work I've ever done, to be honest, taking software that I had never worked on, written by a complete stranger I couldn't talk to, and having to understand how it was working and what was going wrong, without any input from the customer.

 

When you get into it, it is a really great way to learn about the evolution of software, and what things can and do go wrong.

 

(This was pre-Unit Testing days, and the debugging as a mixture of COM+ VB and FoxPro. Some of the codebase dated back to the mid 1980s! So a mind-boggling number of people had worked on it over the years.)

 

Dylan.

 

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From: peter@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:peter@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Price
Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2008 10:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [aus-dotnet] Where to look for the .NET jobs?

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I believe everyone has to have a turn doing support work. Otherwise who's going to do it? I think you learn more about coding doing support work then developing new stuff. If you don't go through the pain of having to go through someone elses code and fully experience both good and bad code then you won't be in a position to appreciate (and write!) good code yourself. Understanding what was going on in someone's head who you have never met (ie they have left) and why they did something the way they did teaches you alot. It's even better when you find and fix their bugs!

 

Sure, it's not as exciting and glamourous but there is nothing stopping you from writing the new stuff at home, or collaborate with other like minded developers. You don't get wealthy in your day job, that's done in your spare time. (Knowledge = wealth)
 

cheers,

Stephen

 

On 1/7/08, winstonpang@xxxxxxxxx <winstonpang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey everyone,

 

 

Wondering if anyone can give me some advice.

 

I've been actively searching on seek.com and mycareer for Sydney CBD based junior .net dev positions, but a lot of them more lean to maintenance and servicing apps, than developing new ones, where should i look for positions like this?

 

Thanks guys!

 

 

Winston

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