Quote Originally Posted by Old Manus View Post
I'm a code monkey but I haven't done any regular expressions since university. I'm currently writing a system which validates data sent by handheld devices used by police at the scene of road traffic collisions. These guys record everything. If your (left hand drive) car hit a lamp post after swerving off the road because a horse and cart hit a pothole in wet weather on the way to a football game, we know.
That's incredible!

I work for a small custom software company in the agriculture business. We build web apps, though I did two years of C++ dev that was a lot more rigorous. It was great experience and I still love low-level stuff... JavaScript sucks ass. PHP is alright though.

My current job is less challenging than my last one but I'm trying to take on more big things to keep myself from stagnating. Overall the environment is a lot better and I've been able to push more ideas about the dev process, as well as be more integral in high-level design decisions. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss scientific programming, working with OpenGL, or optimizing the trout out of C++.