It's late night, you're working on a critical piece of software for your company. It must be finished by sun up.
Doesn't have to be pretty but has to do what is needed.
What SDK do you reach for?
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Have no Idea :)
We do not serve neutrionos faster than light here says the bartender....a neutriono walks into the bar.
MS Paint
Lol nice answer :) if you can't make it, fake it :)
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SDK...No
MS Excel... Yes :P
Beer.
My weapon of choice is planned escape route.
Lol it's meant to be a rhetorical question. What is your "getting sh*t done" language of choice?
Re: msexcel I've created some pretty awesome excel macros in my time. :)
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Quote from: XEntity on January 31, 2012, 22:15:01 PM
SDK...No
MS Excel... Yes :P
Sadly, I agree, Excel is the defacto quick and dirty solution.
Alternatively, for string parsing/matching then perl will get the job done.
Access if i want a proof of concept database app and gui
In a more serious answer, I don't have a language of choice as all I really code is HTML, javascript and writing the odd batch files for jobs, but in terms of productivity and tools for getting things done on big/complicated projects, the two main weapons in the arsenal would be Textpad and Excel.
Delegate that sh*t to a lesser and go get drunkard.
I've knocked up some amazing stuff in just plain ol' bash. Sadly I have a problem where the word prototype means "yup I finished the final version".
So much stuff running in production servers that should never see the light of day.
Re: JavaScript and html have you looked at the Adobe Air SDK. Those two things are all you need to know to start producing Air applications that'll run cross platform and on android.
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Not really, I'm not into the applications side of things so I've had no need to use Air at all, I mainly use JS for quick hacks to get our software to do something it won't or the make something work in a pretty way :D
You build websites right? They're web based applications no? ;)
It's pretty cool, especially for interfacing with webservices across the net as the apis are all the same.
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Quote from: M3ta7h3ad on January 31, 2012, 21:07:13 PM
It's late night, you're working on a critical piece of software for your company. It must be finished by sun up.
LOL screw that... unless someone is going to offer me a silly amount of money there is no chance I'm pulling an all niter... as a colleague once said 'its only money, we're not saving lives here'... Project managers etc.. frequently want extra resources etc..and everything is allegedly super critical - tis up to them to manage time/resources effectively and manage the client's expectation.
Heh, your colleague is wrong. I've been in that exact situation a few times. It's pretty stressful as you can imagine.
The post was just many to be asking what your weapon of choice is for getting stuff done.
Project managers are useless for promising the earth in impossible timescales, true but if you had to do it, what would you use?
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Nobody mentioned the BFG?... :o
The big friendly giant? :)
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