Or apply to QNX, if you're looking to move to Canada. I'm hiring. :)
(Always looking to find honest programmers with an iota of ability...)
-William Bull
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>
> This has nothing to do with freeamp - just with the type of programming
> freeamp involves, and how big of a piece of work that is.
>
> I work for a company which will remain unnamed, and have for about 6
> months. The company is a new branch, and our buisness works about like
> this. For the system intense, thread needing processes, we use C COM
> objects. We then tie these together for different purposes.
>
> I write the COM components. I'm a relatively new programmer, with a
> college degree and about a year of work study under my belt, and I don't
> think I'm a bad programmer. The other two programmers hired to work with
> me have both been fired, so I work alone on this end of things.
>
> One component is a miniature database, which stores arbitrary pieces of
> data under a key. It has to be able to obtain lists of keys, sort and
> search by the keys, and, of course, return the data on command. (Is it
> just me, or is this the core of a relational database, and arn't such
> projects usually done by groups?)
>
> One plays Windows Media Audio files out of the database. Lest you think
> this is easy, I can't store the files in a normal file, so I have to pass
> these out through a socket, then recieve them back in over the socket.
> (This being a WMA solution I suggested about 6 months ago on this group.)
> (Again, is this just me, or is this the core of a media player, and isn't
> this usually done by groups (with actual experience in media technology?))
> At one point it was also supposed to splice together sound files on the
> fly, but that requirement is gone.
>
> The last is a download manager that downloads many files down to the
> computer at a slowed rate, over HTTP. Other than the difficult fact that
> flow control isn't built into sockets, this one is pretty easy.
>
> My boss is starting to drive me crazy. He keeps changing which
> component I should be working on, wanting me to get a certain level of
> functionality done so he can release betas of project X or project
> Y. Then he tells me to work on something else. I work on one project for
> between a week and a month before having to bang something else out.
>
> My problem is, my boss has this attitude like everything should have
> been done weeks ago, like each of these projects is at most a one month
> project. He also acts like switching me between projects shouldn't delay
> my progress on any given project. He treats interface changes as "minor".
>
> Are these projects actually as difficult as I think they are or am I
> just being obtuse? Am I being treated as badly as I'm starting to think I
> am? Could one realistically expect one man to manage all three of these
> projects?
>
> Just venting,
> shren
>
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