Beseech thy lord

[Deepfreeze32]

I'm currently using TFS as a learning experience on a side project. Let me tell you, being able to use Git as the backend is awesome. Makes TFS more of a remote with workflow management than anything else. And workflow management is actually motivating me to do work on the project, lol.


Alright, what's your favorite part about developing .NET?


I've been poking around with C# and Windows Forms, and I gotta say: My favorite part is actually Visual Studio. It works so well, and does exactly what I need it to do. It's not as extensible as, say, Eclipse. But I don't need it to be. It's just the perfect (Well, maybe not perfect, but pretty close) tool for Windows development in my experience.

/not a M$ shill, I swear

[ArchAngel]

Haha, not going to lie, VS is a bit part of it. Definitely my favorite of the IDEs, out of the others I've used (Eclipse, BlueJay, NetBeans).

I've also mostly been a windows guy and I really like it's tight integration with the windows platform. If you want cross platform, Java without question, but for a windows program or web application, it's where it's at.
I've also really like C# as a language. As soon as I picked it up, it felt like the language for me. Now, it's a high level C-style language, so how much more different from Java can it be? Not hugely, and while I liked Java, there were some nuances to Java I just found frustrating and overly verbose and obtuse, especially when making form components, and both the C# language and .NET framework seemed to streamline it.

Also, Properties. I like Properties a lot.

[Deepfreeze32]

If you could go back to school and get a second degree, where money and time are no object, what would it be?


Or if that's too difficult, which ones would you have to strongly consider?

[ArchAngel]

You know, that's something I was considering. So, one one hand, there's getting a Masters in Computer Science or Software Engineering. I like what I do, so the advancement of my career makes sense.
But, there's this nagging little thought it my head telling me to get a degree in Astrophysics. Because it's interesting.

And that's what bothers me about this thought exercise. Theoretical and Astrophysics are more interesting to me than software technology. This is not even talking about my apathy towards the business context of the software I work on. I feel like a crappy engineer because I just don't get stoked about service stacks and APIs. They're just tools to an end. But I enjoy programming and architecting solutions.

So, I wonder if a career switch would good for me. I genuinely get excited about the subject material in astrophysics, but I don't know if I'd actually like the work. Do I trade a job where I find the subject boring but the work is rewarding for a job where the subject is interesting but not the actual work?
Given the financial stability with engineering, I probably won't. Maybe I will just be happiest as a consumer of space sciences.

[Deepfreeze32]

I feel ya there. I like physics, and especially particle physics. But I don't know if I like the actual work involved.


Though if I could go and get a second degree, it would be in History or Archeology. I love that stuff. It would also be really awesome to be a professor of History and/or Archeology (Old stuff just really gets me going, for whatever reason). I really want to teach some day, and it will probably be Computer Science, but if I could teach History, I would so do it.

I dunno, I feel like I'm also vastly unqualified (Even if I had advanced degrees) to teach. XD

[ArchAngel]

I gotta say, your explanation of the Austrian-Hungarian royalty pre-WWI was really good. I would read whole books like that.

[Jorgmeisterwork]

Who came first, the minecraft chicken entity or the egg item?

[ArchAngel]

Chicken.
Chicken was added in Alpha, and I remember, when it was in Alpha, seeing chickens but no eggs.

[Jorgmeisterwork]

Chicken.
Chicken was added in Alpha, and I remember, when it was in Alpha, seeing chickens but no eggs.

Wow you are a truly veteran I didnt join minecraft before 1.3

[ArchAngel]

Well, I don't play that much. I just had it for a while.

[Deepfreeze32]

Which is worse: Poor documentation of code, or poor documentation of process?

[ArchAngel]

If I'm allowed, I would actually go option C: poor documentation of requirements.

Apart from that, I might lean for process.
I'm not huge into code documentation. Tags for an API implementation are good, but as code stands, it should be readable and elegant, nomination should be descriptive, and it should be factored properly where functionality is easily ascertained. If the code is hard to read, it's been probably been written wrong. Documentation also has the nasty tendency to go out of date and no longer become accurately descriptive, but the code is always current.

[Orodrist]

What would you say your go to beer is?

Like, not a fancy hoppy, rich beer, but more an, "I just mowed the lawn and I need something cold and alcoholic" beer.

[Deepfreeze32]

^From what I've heard, probably a good IPA. I recall he likes Lagunitas Hop Stoopid and Stone's Ruination IPA. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).


D&D computer games?

[ArchAngel]

What would you say your go to beer is?

Like, not a fancy hoppy, rich beer, but more an, "I just mowed the lawn and I need something cold and alcoholic" beer.

Deep is right. I'm always up for a (Double/Triple) IPA. Something that kicks you in the back of the throat and keeps kicking. Frankly, they do the job in alcohol content better than the other beers, too. You have to get full before you even feel a buzz.
But sounds like you are looking for something different, so, specifically, in the case of the need for a quick guzzling quench, hmm. I tempted to say point at a Belgian, say, one with a 9% per volume, but they often aren't a chugger. Same with a lot of German brews. I'm not saying they're bad, because they are demonstrably not, but I find them a bit boring. Yes, Mercedes is nice, but it's not as fun as a blown out muscle car. Unless it's the AMG SL65 Black edition.
Anyhow, so maybe a shandy, like a Leinenkugel, for those post-yard work thirsts? I like lemonade and I like beer, and they are pretty refreshing on a summer day.
I will, also, at times, drink some of the cheap, mass produced beer. Not everybody's into craft brews, I'm not going to be rude at family get-together or what not. There really is no preference, they all are pretty close to water. Maybe Coors light?

D&D computer games?

I remember trying Icewind Dale and not really getting into it. I feel it looses the creativity and freeform nature of a paper and pencil game, but refused to take advantage of the flexibility and power of computer games. Like, the worst of both worlds. But, I'll admit I probably haven't given them a fair shake.
I might give Icewind Dale another try, maybe Neverwinter Nights or Baldurs Gate, too. I have Planescape: Torment, so I'm looking forward to trying that.