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I was going to write a few things, but then I saw this is from a recruiter, so it is actually very good :)
by democracy 14y ago
I was going to write a few things, but then I saw this is from a recruiter, so it is actually very good :)
- watmough 14y agoYeah, and he's not wrong about the oil and gas biz. My company is doing a bunch of work with .NET/WPF and what-not, but to some large degree C++ code, literally millions of lines of it, pays the bills. And as someone who's always enjoyed debugging large complex code-bases, I'm really happy with my 80% support / 20% development type role. But as he says, it's always good to have a varied skill-set, so I've dedicated at least 40 hours over the vacation-time to reading the SegY specification and building a Javascript loader/visualizer. Not much code, and it runs reasonably fast, but making lots of asynchronous calls to load, convert from IBM floats, and visualize data, is the kind of stuff that sharpens up the Javascript skills pretty quick. The neat thing about something like this, is that everything you need is online. The SegY spec, plenty of available seismic data courtesy of the US government, and incredibly fast Javascript compilers with Firebug as a REPL.