I work for a consulting firm as a contract programmer. Basically, company calls up, says they need something done, someone takes the specs, and I write it up. It could be anything. Need an excel plugin? Got it covered. Want a detailed report on system usage? Just point me at the data. Need to search through hundreds of emails for something that resembles an address? STAND BACK! I know regular expressions!
Anywho, I've been contracted to this one company for a few months now, updating old processes, writing new ones, whatever. This company is fairly strict on what technologies we're allowed to use, as they should be. New programming languages need to be presented and prove how they'll help, old programming languages are filtered out.
So an email came through a short while ago from another programmer on the global help forum. They were trying to find a copy of VB6 to update an old process.
Microsoft decommissioned VB6 4 or 5 years ago. At the time, it was announced that official internal support for VB6 would be decoed "phased out". All apps should be upgraded to VB.Net, and no new applications would be permitted in VB6. Last year they finally pulled the plug and removed it. Everyone had 3 years to migrate their applications. When told he would have to rewrite the application in VB.NET, his response was "changes don't happen overnight"
The last 4 years have obviously been the longest night in history. He almost became a "customer", but fortunately the task was given to someone else. My VB6 is about 4 or 5 years out of date
Anywho, I've been contracted to this one company for a few months now, updating old processes, writing new ones, whatever. This company is fairly strict on what technologies we're allowed to use, as they should be. New programming languages need to be presented and prove how they'll help, old programming languages are filtered out.
So an email came through a short while ago from another programmer on the global help forum. They were trying to find a copy of VB6 to update an old process.
Microsoft decommissioned VB6 4 or 5 years ago. At the time, it was announced that official internal support for VB6 would be decoed "phased out". All apps should be upgraded to VB.Net, and no new applications would be permitted in VB6. Last year they finally pulled the plug and removed it. Everyone had 3 years to migrate their applications. When told he would have to rewrite the application in VB.NET, his response was "changes don't happen overnight"
The last 4 years have obviously been the longest night in history. He almost became a "customer", but fortunately the task was given to someone else. My VB6 is about 4 or 5 years out of date

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