I write software for companies so I can eat. On a contract I don't retain ownership of the code, I could usually care less. But I include a clause that says something to the effect that my software is good for no particular purpose and that if it breaks, I'm not liable. This is a good thing for small time guys like me. As I can't really afford to run to a lawyer all the time. But if that doesn't hold up anymore, am I going to face trouble when my call into a Win32 API hangs?? I call LPTRSomeWin32Function() in my software, it blows up and end user sees an error box pop up in the application that I wrote. Is the court going to tell me that I'm liable for broken software when the libraies I use that I didn't write cause the process to go boom?
I don't know... this is all food for thought. If I'm sued can I turn around and sue the developer of teh library? If I'm linking into glibc and it breaks can I sue GNU? Richard Stallman?
.... using Qt with C++ doesn't have one point on your list of criteria that i failed to mention: No garbage handling, because no mananged environment. But real programmers delete their own allocated memory.... right?... err.... ok... nevermind.....
Keep in mind that like anything else, in software development you need the right tool for the right job. If your looking to create a cross-platform application with a mature and well supported tool-kit, then I would say look at the Qt cross-platform application framework library from Trolltech. Most people here will be most familiar with Qt as the library that KDE was built with. If you are coming from a Win32 background, Qt can be compared somewhat to MFC. Except Qt is MUCH MUCH easier to use (I've been part of a couple large projects that used MFC, so I understand it's many pitfalls). Qt is portable across Windows, Linux, and Mac. It's on version 3.0 so it's mature. It has a free evaluation version, so download it and give it a try. For Linux (I've only used the linux version so I don't know if there is a Windows version, I've never looked into it) there is a GUI IDE that makes application programming using Qt with C++ just like Visual Basic. In so far as, you drag and drop your controls onto your template app, then add event haddlers and whatnot.
Re:When will the real evolution of RTS arive?
on
HIstory of RTS Games
·
· Score: 1
WC3 addresses this to a point. Your non-hero spell casters have the option of auto-casting their spells in battle. This relieves you of the micromanagement of minor spell-casters, to which you can concentrate more on what your hero's are casting (which don't have an auto-cast option).
But all in all I agree with you. Today you have to "hyper-click" to get a leg up on your opponent. It's not enough to focus on the battle at hand when you need to run back to your town to prepare for your next move then quickly jump back to manage the battle. Some would say this is a good thing, the point is subjective.
Re:When will the real evolution of RTS arive?
on
HIstory of RTS Games
·
· Score: 1
Yes. There is an option in the video settings for 1600x1024 screen resolution.
Re:When will the real evolution of RTS arive?
on
HIstory of RTS Games
·
· Score: 1
I disagree with what you wrote. Even players who rank high on the battle.net ladder system admit to what I claimed in my original posting, that their economic strategy is repetitive. They find themselves doing the same thing everygame. Don't over generalize on that too much, for instance, let's say your tank and marine drop in the peon line fails forwhatever reason. Suddenly as a player you find yourself outside of your normal routine to recover (and this seperates the good players from the average players). But the fact remains that the rock-paper-scissor aspect of SC is still there and forces you to follow pre-written paths of behavior.
So the challenge to RTS game designers is who to get around this without throwing total randomness into the game (which is what WC3 does to an extent with the equimpent your hero can find).
Re:When will the real evolution of RTS arive?
on
HIstory of RTS Games
·
· Score: 2, Informative
It looks gorgious. Everything from the Battle.net interface to the in game characters is a new level of high for the Blizzard artits.
As for the RP aspects....
Your hero gains experience points from victory in battle either over your opponent, or over NPC opponents called "creeps". Exp leads to leveling, leveling leads to ability to cast different spells. All in all, the effort it takes to build your hero up to be able to cast spells is equivalent to building up the tech tree in SC to get templars that can cast spells. If I wasn't told this was a Blizzard game before I sat down to play it, I would have known as soon as the game started. It has that Blizzard RTS style. And therefore, the old SC way of thinking will bring you success in WC3. This is why I've been mostly dissapointed.
Keep in mind, this is only the third day of beta testing. Therefore, it's most likely WAY to early for me to be making such judgements. But these are my first impressions. Expect the game to change greatly from now until it's eventual release. As Blizzard will be releasing a lot of game balance patches during the beta to see what happens.
When will the real evolution of RTS arive?
on
HIstory of RTS Games
·
· Score: 5, Interesting
I'm currently a War Craft 3 beta tester. I've come to realize over that past two days of WC3 open play on Blizzard's Battle.net game network, that RTS as a genera seems to be in a rut. Thinking back on my RTS experience from C&C to RedAlert2 to TA to StarCraft to now WarCraft3, the dominate RTS paradigm is managing economic efficiency. This leads to mass production of basic units and the eventual overwhelming of your opponent. In other words, RTS hasn't evolved much past zergling/tank rushing. The mindless action of highlighting a large group of cheap single functionality units and pointing them in the direction to roll over anything they come across. Once you establish the most efficent process of building economoy, you end up repeating the same damn steps each and every game you play. The RTS game now becomes nothing more than repition which equal mind numbingly boring games. Although Blizzard has obviously taken steps in WC3 to try and change the focus from economic centered game to a tatically centered one, IMHO they've fallen short (as for why, you'll just have to wait to see for yourself in about three months). The closest I've seen anybody change RTS was a Korean company that made Shattered Galaxy. That game had it's own meta repetative process that territory was never really gained or lost, but they changed the focus of the game to the battle (and added an interesting team and political aspect). All in all, WC3 is a step in the right direction in pushing RTS from it's simple roots toward the future, but we got a long way to go to make RTS's that rise above the complexity of Rock-Paper-Scissors toward something as copmlex as chess.
A: As always when you are downloading or receiving files from the Internet, you must exercise caution. Certain file types may contain viruses or so-called Trojan horses. You should protect yourself by using regularly updated anti-virus software, for example Norton Antivirus (www.norton.com) or McAfee (www.mcafee.com ). Both Norton and McAfee offer free 30-day trial versions that you can download directly from their web sites. Not all file types can contain viruses or Trojans. Music, video, and picture files are generally safe - that includes files with the extensions.mp3,.vaw,.mpg,.avi,.mov,.bmp and.jpg. PDF documents (.pdf) and text files (.txt) are also in general safe. You should be cautious of executable files (.exe) and Microsoft Word and Excel documents (.doc and.xls). These files are specified with a icon in the search results on Morpheus.com. back to the top
Update Feb. 2 2002: The above warning is the least of your worries.
We should build one huge spaceship and put all our hairdressers, telephone sanitisers, insurance salesman, management consultants, TV producers and public relations executives into it. Send them off to another planet somewhere. I'm sure they'll do just fine building a new civilization.
groups.google.com always has the answers...
on
How Google Saved USENET
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
As a software developer, no matter what problem I run into, somebody else has already run into that problem and has asked my question and recieved an answer on groups.google.com. Whenever I get stuck on anything at all, it's the first place I run to. groups.google.com is the single most useful site you can point your browser (konqueror!!!) towards. I'm not sure how they make money over there at google, but what a great service they are providing!
There are so many groups attempting to build this holy grail of technology. For those not falling off the bleeding edge of techno hype, convergence devices for the most part promise to distribute voice, video, and data to the home consumer through one service. This service will also provide for some type of QOS, such that, your phone conversation doesn't die when little johnny pulls the entire season of jackie chan adventures. Convergence devices are also going to be responsible for having your toaster talk to your PDA, so that from your car, you can order up a nice warm pop tart that will be waiting for you after the evening commute.
An embedded systems start-up (now dead... once "the money burn" caught up to us) I was part of partnered with a networking company that claimed to have solved "the last mile" problem. They even had AT&T lined up as an initial customer. They didn't however, want to engineer anything in the home, thus sub contracted that out to us. We had a line of PowerPC single board PC104 form factor computers we were going to build this device from. This is when I first learned about convergence devices and the mad mad mad chase in the industry to be the first group getting inside the consumers home.
Never had any of these products taken off... and there have been many. However, with that said (this is now relating to an earlier/. post on MS's new device), XBox is in the best position to be a home convergence device. I'm sure that's what MS had in mind all along when they designed the system initially. They just needed a foothold into the living room. I wouldn't be surprised if in the next version of XBox it will act as a home router... that's also a cable box... that has some type of.NET services to recieve data and voice. Goodbye baby bells and local cable... hello MS providing everything through a convergence device.
Am I being realistic... prolly not. But basically that's why every company from Motorola to a bunch of small start-ups are trying to get into the home, so they can be a one stop shop for all your communication needs.
LOTR, starting a trend that I hope continues...
on
LotR Cleans Up at AFI
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
In anticipation for the film's opening, I read Tolkien for the very first time (as a young'un I was a D&D geek, so you have thought I would have taken the time years ago to discover Tolkien's middle earth). After experiencing the Hobbit and Fellowship, I had very low expectations for the movie adaptation. And for good reason. Hollywood script writers are natorieous for completely throwing out the source material when writing a movie version. And subsequesntly the movie going audience is left with a story and characters that are barely anything like the book version (which of course, the movies always suck) As a comic fan, you see this over and over again, when comic hero's make thier way to the big screen (Batman and Robin, Spawn anyone). It's like Holywood doesn't fully trust the original authers. But lately things have been getting better... X-men wasn't turned into a corny joke, LOTR kept to Tolkien storyline, Frank Miller is writing a script for a real batman film....
So to sum up, I hope this starts a trend in Hollywood amoung script writers. That they should stick to the orignial works more closely (although the message isn't going to get out in time for the HellBlazer movie... which they already cast Nick Cage for!!! Good god is that going to suck.)
Keep in mind that as a contractor, you're not billing for 40 hour weeks. With only a small stream of work, a lot of non-billable leg work, you only end up billing a small percentage of your actual work week. As a matter of fact, on $45 dollars an hour, I could no longer afford the appartment I was sharing, and have temporarly been forced to move back to my parents basement until I can find full time work.
In November of 2000, as a young and brash 24 year old software engineer, I got laid off from the embedded systems startup I was working for. My roommate and I (who was also a comp sci major and laid off on the same day) decided to try independent contracting. We both had been working in the industry for a few years and had picked up some business savvy along the way. So we got outselves a lawyer, incorporated, and all that...
Then the fatefull day that we meet our first potention client. They were a investment group that needed number crunching software there field agents could use on site. I had spent some time at a large national insurance company writing insurance software, so this is right up my alley. So I sit down to talk business and the first thing out of this clients mouth is "why should we go with you, who is charging ten times what it would cost if we went with an Indian firm?" Keep in mind, we were only charging $45 an hour. And for those who don't keep score on software contracting rates, that is as low as it gets. I try to explain the value of being able to work with somebody who you can meet face to face, but they had made up there minds even before I got there.
Over 2001 this was repeated time and again. We were subcontracted some work from a consultant in Florida but were told that there wasn't going to be any follow up work because he normally goes with Russian or Indian programmers that he can pay 5 dollars an hour for!
So what's my point? I shake when I hear that China is trying to follow in Indians footsteps. The American market for small little independant consultants is harsh. And I fear soon will be non-existant. But that's the way the world is moving. Can't fight globalization.
I still believe the entrepunurial American programmer can be successfull as long as they come up with original and inovative services or products. But as far as being a gun for hire... that market might be gone.
This is just an idea off the top of my head. But would your company be apposed to the idea of having a developers lab that would be off the corporate network. This lab would be sort of an anything goes environment, where developers could mess with things such as what ActiveX controls are installed, keys in the registry, and what component versions live on the box (anybody familiar with ".dll hell"?). If the developers screw something up, it's up to them to fix it. The IT support staff wouldn't have to be involved at all.
Where I used to work at we had something similar called the time warp lab, that had a bunch of machines running different versions of windows with different components installed. The developers could test their code on them, and when we were done, we just ghosted a new drive image onto the drive.
At the end of last year, with the NASDAQ index in a downward spiral, I suddenly found myself laidoff. The "burn rate" finally caught up with the small embedded systems firm I was a part of, and they were unable to secure the necessary venture capital funds to keep the good times rolling. So at the tender age of 24 I was downsized.
With a computer science degree in hand, I am now searching for greener pastures. And I find myself asking this very same question of myself, "Do issues like liquor laws and social life really affect where engineers and programmers want to work?"
Unfortunately, I probably fit the computer science geek stereotype closer than I care to say. I've spent my fair share of Friday nights behind my monitor coding whatever pet project that had caught my interest that week. However, I'm still a healthy single twenty year old that likes to go out with girls and dance and drink!
So today I've spend another day on the net, searching for companies that would be the "perfect match". And too tell you the truth, the city the company in is more important to me right now than the company itself. Being downsized has really made me bitter to the corporate scene. Therefore, I value my time away from the office more than time spent in it. Which means I don't want to live in a boring town or an oppressive environment that won't let me enjoy my free time in a manner that I find enjoyable.
Shameless self promotion ----->
And for anybody that wants to give a young software developer a job, you can view my resume at www.thomasmis.com/resume.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sure this has been asked already like a hundred times, but I haven't read through the 1600 posts, will the wedding be broadcast on the web??
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~mjones/amor/index
I write software for companies so I can eat. On a contract I don't retain ownership of the code, I could usually care less. But I include a clause that says something to the effect that my software is good for no particular purpose and that if it breaks, I'm not liable. This is a good thing for small time guys like me. As I can't really afford to run to a lawyer all the time. But if that doesn't hold up anymore, am I going to face trouble when my call into a Win32 API hangs?? I call LPTRSomeWin32Function() in my software, it blows up and end user sees an error box pop up in the application that I wrote. Is the court going to tell me that I'm liable for broken software when the libraies I use that I didn't write cause the process to go boom?
I don't know... this is all food for thought. If I'm sued can I turn around and sue the developer of teh library? If I'm linking into glibc and it breaks can I sue GNU? Richard Stallman?
.... using Qt with C++ doesn't have one point on your list of criteria that i failed to mention: No garbage handling, because no mananged environment. But real programmers delete their own allocated memory.... right?... err.... ok... nevermind.....
Keep in mind that like anything else, in software development you need the right tool for the right job. If your looking to create a cross-platform application with a mature and well supported tool-kit, then I would say look at the Qt cross-platform application framework library from Trolltech. Most people here will be most familiar with Qt as the library that KDE was built with. If you are coming from a Win32 background, Qt can be compared somewhat to MFC. Except Qt is MUCH MUCH easier to use (I've been part of a couple large projects that used MFC, so I understand it's many pitfalls). Qt is portable across Windows, Linux, and Mac. It's on version 3.0 so it's mature. It has a free evaluation version, so download it and give it a try. For Linux (I've only used the linux version so I don't know if there is a Windows version, I've never looked into it) there is a GUI IDE that makes application programming using Qt with C++ just like Visual Basic. In so far as, you drag and drop your controls onto your template app, then add event haddlers and whatnot.
Now... let's discuse my consulting fees.
Treknetix, for all your coding needs
WC3 addresses this to a point. Your non-hero spell casters have the option of auto-casting their spells in battle. This relieves you of the micromanagement of minor spell-casters, to which you can concentrate more on what your hero's are casting (which don't have an auto-cast option).
But all in all I agree with you. Today you have to "hyper-click" to get a leg up on your opponent. It's not enough to focus on the battle at hand when you need to run back to your town to prepare for your next move then quickly jump back to manage the battle. Some would say this is a good thing, the point is subjective.
Yes. There is an option in the video settings for 1600x1024 screen resolution.
I disagree with what you wrote. Even players who rank high on the battle.net ladder system admit to what I claimed in my original posting, that their economic strategy is repetitive. They find themselves doing the same thing everygame. Don't over generalize on that too much, for instance, let's say your tank and marine drop in the peon line fails forwhatever reason. Suddenly as a player you find yourself outside of your normal routine to recover (and this seperates the good players from the average players). But the fact remains that the rock-paper-scissor aspect of SC is still there and forces you to follow pre-written paths of behavior.
So the challenge to RTS game designers is who to get around this without throwing total randomness into the game (which is what WC3 does to an extent with the equimpent your hero can find).
It looks gorgious. Everything from the Battle.net interface to the in game characters is a new level of high for the Blizzard artits.
As for the RP aspects....
Your hero gains experience points from victory in battle either over your opponent, or over NPC opponents called "creeps". Exp leads to leveling, leveling leads to ability to cast different spells. All in all, the effort it takes to build your hero up to be able to cast spells is equivalent to building up the tech tree in SC to get templars that can cast spells. If I wasn't told this was a Blizzard game before I sat down to play it, I would have known as soon as the game started. It has that Blizzard RTS style. And therefore, the old SC way of thinking will bring you success in WC3. This is why I've been mostly dissapointed.
Keep in mind, this is only the third day of beta testing. Therefore, it's most likely WAY to early for me to be making such judgements. But these are my first impressions. Expect the game to change greatly from now until it's eventual release. As Blizzard will be releasing a lot of game balance patches during the beta to see what happens.
I'm currently a War Craft 3 beta tester. I've come to realize over that past two days of WC3 open play on Blizzard's Battle.net game network, that RTS as a genera seems to be in a rut. Thinking back on my RTS experience from C&C to RedAlert2 to TA to StarCraft to now WarCraft3, the dominate RTS paradigm is managing economic efficiency. This leads to mass production of basic units and the eventual overwhelming of your opponent. In other words, RTS hasn't evolved much past zergling/tank rushing. The mindless action of highlighting a large group of cheap single functionality units and pointing them in the direction to roll over anything they come across. Once you establish the most efficent process of building economoy, you end up repeating the same damn steps each and every game you play. The RTS game now becomes nothing more than repition which equal mind numbingly boring games. Although Blizzard has obviously taken steps in WC3 to try and change the focus from economic centered game to a tatically centered one, IMHO they've fallen short (as for why, you'll just have to wait to see for yourself in about three months). The closest I've seen anybody change RTS was a Korean company that made Shattered Galaxy. That game had it's own meta repetative process that territory was never really gained or lost, but they changed the focus of the game to the battle (and added an interesting team and political aspect). All in all, WC3 is a step in the right direction in pushing RTS from it's simple roots toward the future, but we got a long way to go to make RTS's that rise above the complexity of Rock-Paper-Scissors toward something as copmlex as chess.
Taken from the Morpheus FAQ at www.musiccity.com/helpfaq.htm
.mp3, .vaw, .mpg, .avi, .mov, .bmp and .jpg. PDF documents (.pdf) and text files (.txt) are also in general safe. You should be cautious of executable files (.exe) and Microsoft Word and Excel documents (.doc and .xls). These files are specified with a icon in the search results on Morpheus.com. back to the top
Q: Can I get viruses using Morpheus?
A: As always when you are downloading or receiving files from the Internet, you must exercise caution. Certain file types may contain viruses or so-called Trojan horses. You should protect yourself by using regularly updated anti-virus software, for example Norton Antivirus (www.norton.com) or McAfee (www.mcafee.com ). Both Norton and McAfee offer free 30-day trial versions that you can download directly from their web sites. Not all file types can contain viruses or Trojans. Music, video, and picture files are generally safe - that includes files with the extensions
Update Feb. 2 2002: The above warning is the least of your worries.
We should build one huge spaceship and put all our hairdressers, telephone sanitisers, insurance salesman, management consultants, TV producers and public relations executives into it. Send them off to another planet somewhere. I'm sure they'll do just fine building a new civilization.
As a software developer, no matter what problem I run into, somebody else has already run into that problem and has asked my question and recieved an answer on groups.google.com. Whenever I get stuck on anything at all, it's the first place I run to. groups.google.com is the single most useful site you can point your browser (konqueror!!!) towards. I'm not sure how they make money over there at google, but what a great service they are providing!
There are so many groups attempting to build this holy grail of technology. For those not falling off the bleeding edge of techno hype, convergence devices for the most part promise to distribute voice, video, and data to the home consumer through one service. This service will also provide for some type of QOS, such that, your phone conversation doesn't die when little johnny pulls the entire season of jackie chan adventures. Convergence devices are also going to be responsible for having your toaster talk to your PDA, so that from your car, you can order up a nice warm pop tart that will be waiting for you after the evening commute.
/. post on MS's new device), XBox is in the best position to be a home convergence device. I'm sure that's what MS had in mind all along when they designed the system initially. They just needed a foothold into the living room. I wouldn't be surprised if in the next version of XBox it will act as a home router... that's also a cable box... that has some type of .NET services to recieve data and voice. Goodbye baby bells and local cable... hello MS providing everything through a convergence device.
An embedded systems start-up (now dead... once "the money burn" caught up to us) I was part of partnered with a networking company that claimed to have solved "the last mile" problem. They even had AT&T lined up as an initial customer. They didn't however, want to engineer anything in the home, thus sub contracted that out to us. We had a line of PowerPC single board PC104 form factor computers we were going to build this device from. This is when I first learned about convergence devices and the mad mad mad chase in the industry to be the first group getting inside the consumers home.
Never had any of these products taken off... and there have been many. However, with that said (this is now relating to an earlier
Am I being realistic... prolly not. But basically that's why every company from Motorola to a bunch of small start-ups are trying to get into the home, so they can be a one stop shop for all your communication needs.
In anticipation for the film's opening, I read Tolkien for the very first time (as a young'un I was a D&D geek, so you have thought I would have taken the time years ago to discover Tolkien's middle earth). After experiencing the Hobbit and Fellowship, I had very low expectations for the movie adaptation. And for good reason. Hollywood script writers are natorieous for completely throwing out the source material when writing a movie version. And subsequesntly the movie going audience is left with a story and characters that are barely anything like the book version (which of course, the movies always suck) As a comic fan, you see this over and over again, when comic hero's make thier way to the big screen (Batman and Robin, Spawn anyone). It's like Holywood doesn't fully trust the original authers. But lately things have been getting better... X-men wasn't turned into a corny joke, LOTR kept to Tolkien storyline, Frank Miller is writing a script for a real batman film....
So to sum up, I hope this starts a trend in Hollywood amoung script writers. That they should stick to the orignial works more closely (although the message isn't going to get out in time for the HellBlazer movie... which they already cast Nick Cage for!!! Good god is that going to suck.)
Keep in mind that as a contractor, you're not billing for 40 hour weeks. With only a small stream of work, a lot of non-billable leg work, you only end up billing a small percentage of your actual work week. As a matter of fact, on $45 dollars an hour, I could no longer afford the appartment I was sharing, and have temporarly been forced to move back to my parents basement until I can find full time work.
(somebody hire me please)
In November of 2000, as a young and brash 24 year old software engineer, I got laid off from the embedded systems startup I was working for. My roommate and I (who was also a comp sci major and laid off on the same day) decided to try independent contracting. We both had been working in the industry for a few years and had picked up some business savvy along the way. So we got outselves a lawyer, incorporated, and all that...
Then the fatefull day that we meet our first potention client. They were a investment group that needed number crunching software there field agents could use on site. I had spent some time at a large national insurance company writing insurance software, so this is right up my alley. So I sit down to talk business and the first thing out of this clients mouth is "why should we go with you, who is charging ten times what it would cost if we went with an Indian firm?" Keep in mind, we were only charging $45 an hour. And for those who don't keep score on software contracting rates, that is as low as it gets. I try to explain the value of being able to work with somebody who you can meet face to face, but they had made up there minds even before I got there.
Over 2001 this was repeated time and again. We were subcontracted some work from a consultant in Florida but were told that there wasn't going to be any follow up work because he normally goes with Russian or Indian programmers that he can pay 5 dollars an hour for!
So what's my point? I shake when I hear that China is trying to follow in Indians footsteps. The American market for small little independant consultants is harsh. And I fear soon will be non-existant. But that's the way the world is moving. Can't fight globalization.
I still believe the entrepunurial American programmer can be successfull as long as they come up with original and inovative services or products. But as far as being a gun for hire... that market might be gone.
This is just an idea off the top of my head. But would your company be apposed to the idea of having a developers lab that would be off the corporate network. This lab would be sort of an anything goes environment, where developers could mess with things such as what ActiveX controls are installed, keys in the registry, and what component versions live on the box (anybody familiar with ".dll hell"?). If the developers screw something up, it's up to them to fix it. The IT support staff wouldn't have to be involved at all.
Where I used to work at we had something similar called the time warp lab, that had a bunch of machines running different versions of windows with different components installed. The developers could test their code on them, and when we were done, we just ghosted a new drive image onto the drive.
------------------------------------------------ -
With a computer science degree in hand, I am now searching for greener pastures. And I find myself asking this very same question of myself, "Do issues like liquor laws and social life really affect where engineers and programmers want to work?"
Unfortunately, I probably fit the computer science geek stereotype closer than I care to say. I've spent my fair share of Friday nights behind my monitor coding whatever pet project that had caught my interest that week. However, I'm still a healthy single twenty year old that likes to go out with girls and dance and drink!
So today I've spend another day on the net, searching for companies that would be the "perfect match". And too tell you the truth, the city the company in is more important to me right now than the company itself. Being downsized has really made me bitter to the corporate scene. Therefore, I value my time away from the office more than time spent in it. Which means I don't want to live in a boring town or an oppressive environment that won't let me enjoy my free time in a manner that I find enjoyable.
Shameless self promotion ----->
And for anybody that wants to give a young software developer a job, you can view my resume at www.thomasmis.com/resume.
------------------------------------------------ -