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FarligOpptreden said:
Ah, shucks. If you did web forms properly, you would've naturally migrated to an MVC-way of thinking by doing AJAX via page methods. So going full-blown MVC won't be that hard at all.

I was in a similar position years ago - started at company in 2005 and pretty much built up their whole product and legacy single-handedly. I had nothing to show for it after a bitter parting in 2014.

Where are you based though? With your experience I can use someone in our Pretoria East client as well... Got 2 people stationed there already and we might need a third (senior) guy with some upcoming projects there as the workload will just be too high for my current resources. And you'll get to work with my proprietary MVC and ORM tool, as well as joining a long-standing MyGamer there.



Thanks, but my wife works for one of the biggest idenepdent printers in the country and I have a great relationship with the top execs there already. :)

As for UX, that's my passion and speciality. I do it out of love, even if it has to happen after hours. We're kinda renowned for our "sexy GUI's" (client's own words) already.
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Eish dude, I'm based in Jhb West, so Pta east is moer far. I already have one client in Menlyn, and it's a looong drive out there. And being assigned to site is an issue because I usually run with a few projects at a time, not to mention support for existing projects as well as meetings for design and specification of new projects, so I need to work from my office for the most part.

....But I wonder if we could use you guys on some projects.... Do you have anything we could look at to get an idea of your sexy GUI's?
 
Solitude said:
MyGaming is still rather quiet even with the competition going.
[MENTION=289]Jan[/MENTION], did you guys send out a mail to let people know about it?
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Not yet. I'm actually finally taking a bit of leave, but I'll send one out today :)
 
Mephisto_Helix said:
.... swak, hopefully just a busy workload and not a stressful workload. I'm hot and bored, would kill for some aircon office workings right now tbh.
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I'm trying not to get stressed this year. Stress is useless so I'm trying to just take things as they come.

Ha I'm one of those people who prefer the heat. Our aircon is always so cold that it feels like I'm living in Northern Canada somewhere.
 
matt said:
Eish dude, I'm based in Jhb West, so Pta east is moer far. I already have one client in Menlyn, and it's a looong drive out there. And being assigned to site is an issue because I usually run with a few projects at a time, not to mention support for existing projects as well as meetings for design and specification of new projects, so I need to work from my office for the most part.

....But I wonder if we could use you guys on some projects.... Do you have anything we could look at to get an idea of your sexy GUI's?
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I can show you a web presentation we did for a potential client recently: Pagelizard Web Presentation

Should be fairly responsive down to mobile level (didn't have much time to test all browsers though - had only 3 days to do the whole thing from scratch). Swipe left / right for nav (using finger or mouse) or use the menu.
 
FarligOpptreden said:
I can show you a web presentation we did for a potential client recently: Pagelizard Web Presentation

Should be fairly responsive down to mobile level (didn't have much time to test all browsers though - had only 3 days to do the whole thing from scratch). Swipe left / right for nav (using finger or mouse) or use the menu.
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That leads management system looks very interesting. We do all kinds of financial software and sites at my work. Mostly payroll, fixed assets, and quoting and such. Our quoting program has leads management but I don't think it's very advanced.
 
Solitude said:
That leads management system looks very interesting. We do all kinds of financial software and sites at my work. Mostly payroll, fixed assets, and quoting and such. Our quoting program has leads management but I don't think it's very advanced.
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The LMS is fairly sophisticated. It integrates with their "contact us" page where you can do a quick, medium or long version. That distributes the lead geographically to the correct department so the appropriate call center agents pick it up and appoint the best brokers to handle the lead. Then it pans out to very industry specific needs, which I'm not inclined to share in a public forum. It's been in development for a good 14 months now and it keeps expanding to other areas of the business as well. :)
 
FarligOpptreden said:
The LMS is fairly sophisticated. It integrates with their "contact us" page where you can do a quick, medium or long version. That distributes the lead geographically to the correct department so the appropriate call center agents pick it up and appoint the best brokers to handle the lead. Then it pans out to very industry specific needs, which I'm not inclined to share in a public forum. It's been in development for a good 14 months now and it keeps expanding to other areas of the business as well. :)
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Awesome. I'd love to see it one day. Is there any reason why you moved over to Java for some projects? We mostly work with C# and C++ over here and none of us have even touched Java. I know it's hugely popular but I don't see us using it in the foreseeable future.
 
FarligOpptreden said:
I can show you a web presentation we did for a potential client recently: Pagelizard Web Presentation

Should be fairly responsive down to mobile level (didn't have much time to test all browsers though - had only 3 days to do the whole thing from scratch). Swipe left / right for nav (using finger or mouse) or use the menu.
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Oh cool, I also had a look at www.typedev.co.za and why.typedev.co.za. Those animations in the backgrounds are very funky and the paging is very slick, did you write that js?

I'll show those sites to my boss for in case we need extra resources.
 
Solitude said:
Awesome. I'd love to see it one day. Is there any reason why you moved over to Java for some projects? We mostly work with C# and C++ over here and none of us have even touched Java. I know it's hugely popular but I don't see us using it in the foreseeable future.
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To be honest, I had a passing interest in Java and thought it might be fun to dabble in one day. After doing C# for 9 years I landed a client that forced us into the Oracle stack, as that's what they had in their environment. After doing it every day now for almost a year I can comfortably say I'm starting to prefer it above .NET. Threading is so much simpler and more robust and, when hosted on a Unix server, the performance is mind-blowing compared to .NET hosted in Windows.

We've built services and software daemons processing on average 40-50 transactions per second, sometimes peaking above 100, and our code stays rock solid. I've yet to build an application handling such high transaction volumes in .NET and given the opportunity to I will most certainly compare it with the performance I've seen from Java hosted on Unix. The other benefit of Java is the portability to other platforms: you can reuse the same compiled code on Windows, Linux, Unix, Android, etc... You just pass around the compiled assemblies and you're done. No recompilation or platform targeting necessary.

For a C# developer moving over to Java it really is just a case of getting used to the new IDE and libraries - syntax is 95% the same as C#. Only some specifics like generics, lambdas and anonymous classes differ slightly, but not enough to make you uncomfortable - except type erasure (the bane of all reflection-focused code).
 
matt said:
Oh cool, I also had a look at www.typedev.co.za and why.typedev.co.za. Those animations in the backgrounds are very funky and the paging is very slick, did you write that js?

I'll show those sites to my boss for in case we need extra resources.
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I did indeed. It started off as a pet project of mine to build a particle generator. I ended up with a nice drawable canvas where I could draw random particles and give them a lifespan. So it ended up looking like sparks emitting from the mouse cursor, with lava-like canyons being drawn on the screen. I extracted the necessary bits from that to create the light-shafts effect and it's been used in our CI ever since. :) Feel free to grab the JS file attached to the site and play around with it.

Most of the stuff I do is a combination of CSS3 animations and transitions and canvas animations.
 
FarligOpptreden said:
To be honest, I had a passing interest in Java and thought it might be fun to dabble in one day. After doing C# for 9 years I landed a client that forced us into the Oracle stack, as that's what they had in their environment. After doing it every day now for almost a year I can comfortably say I'm starting to prefer it above .NET. Threading is so much simpler and more robust and, when hosted on a Unix server, the performance is mind-blowing compared to .NET hosted in Windows.

We've built services and software daemons processing on average 40-50 transactions per second, sometimes peaking above 100, and our code stays rock solid. I've yet to build an application handling such high transaction volumes in .NET and given the opportunity to I will most certainly compare it with the performance I've seen from Java hosted on Unix. The other benefit of Java is the portability to other platforms: you can reuse the same compiled code on Windows, Linux, Unix, Android, etc... You just pass around the compiled assemblies and you're done. No recompilation or platform targeting necessary.

For a C# developer moving over to Java it really is just a case of getting used to the new IDE and libraries - syntax is 95% the same as C#. Only some specifics like generics, lambdas and anonymous classes differ slightly, but not enough to make you uncomfortable - except type erasure (the bane of all reflection-focused code).
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Thanks for the reply. Maybe one day I'll have a look at Java.
 
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