Re: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-28 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:24:15 +1100 Kevin Waterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Being programmer is not equivalent to being a coder, is it? Or have struck the language barrier once again? If you can read it, they would not call it code. Oh I see. Well, I write C++ mainly. But just as naturally

Re: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-28 Thread Kevin Waterson
> Being programmer is not equivalent to being a coder, is it? > Or have struck the language barrier once again? If you can read it, they would not call it code. Basically languages such as HTML (HyperText Markup Language) are not computer code but simple Markup. HTML is a subset of SGML, as is X

RE: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-28 Thread Amita Guha
> Being programmer is not equivalent to being a coder, is it? > Or have struck the language barrier once again? My husband is a software engineer. He writes tons of code, so technically he's a coder, but he can also design software from scratch, so I wouldn't call him a coder first, even though h

Re: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-28 Thread Otis Wright
Ditto, Micro-, machine-, assembler on up the line. In the early days --- maintained wrote and maintained assemblers, compilers, and operating systems for mainframes in special applications.Last code used in commercial product 1980. Last code for personal use around 1990. Last direction

Re: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-28 Thread Bob W
Hi, Sunday, December 28, 2003, 5:29:03 AM, you wrote: >> >> some people may tell you that not having a personality is the >> defining characteristic of a coder... > Hey now, I wrote a lot of code back in the day... me too. Still do. -- Cheers, Bob

Re: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-28 Thread John Francis
> > In the mainframe days systems analysis, programing, and coding were all > different jobs. Now-a-days I understand they are usually combined. Coding was > the grunt work. Yes, the term tends to be used derogatorily these days, unless > you are talking about microcoding. Everyone who has writ

RE: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-27 Thread tom
> -Original Message- > From: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > Sunday, December 28, 2003, 2:10:40 AM, you wrote: > > > Thanks! > > > No. I'm an ex- Unix sys-admin now doing technical > account management. I > > don't have the personality to code > > some people may tel

Re: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-27 Thread graywolf
In the mainframe days systems analysis, programing, and coding were all different jobs. Now-a-days I understand they are usually combined. Coding was the grunt work. Yes, the term tends to be used derogatorily these days, unless you are talking about microcoding. Everyone who has written workabl

Re: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-27 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! >> No. I'm an ex- Unix sys-admin now doing technical account management. I >> don't have the personality to code BW> some people may tell you that not having a personality is the BW> defining characteristic of a coder... Being programmer is not equivalent to being a coder, is it? Or ha

Re: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-27 Thread Christian Skofteland
exactly! Christian Skofteland [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 9:47 PM Subject: Re: New job and Ritz Camera > Hi, > > Sunday, December 28, 2003, 2:10

Re: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-27 Thread Bob W
Hi, Sunday, December 28, 2003, 2:10:40 AM, you wrote: > Thanks! > No. I'm an ex- Unix sys-admin now doing technical account management. I > don't have the personality to code some people may tell you that not having a personality is the defining characteristic of a coder... -- Cheers,

Re: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-26 Thread Boris Liberman
Congratulations! So you're a progammer like me, are you not? Boris

RE: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-26 Thread frank theriault
CTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: New job and Ritz Camera Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:58:13 -0500 I just changed jobs this week and started working for a software company = in Washington, DC. Just around the corner there is a One-Hour MotoPhoto and across the = s

RE: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-26 Thread Bill Sawyer
Didn't they buy a big West Coast store - Camera World or some such? I wonder how they are doing under the new management? -Original Message- From: Butch Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 26, 2003 8:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: New job and

RE: New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-26 Thread Butch Black
Congrats on the new job. Ritz has a few "pro" oriented stores in their chain. Usually it came from their buying out a high end dealer or local chain. They were usually good as long as the original owner and/or staff remained. But Ritz has no viable working plan for their high volume stores, so onc

New job and Ritz Camera

2003-12-26 Thread Christian
I just changed jobs this week and started working for a software company = in Washington, DC. Just around the corner there is a One-Hour MotoPhoto and across the = street is the biggest Ritz Camera store I've ever seen. Surprisingly, for a Ritz, it is well stocked with high-end gear and more = su