Where are all the computer nerds?
 

I'll be graduating in May from Penn States IST program.

July I start my job developing applications using c++, java, j2ee.
I like to program open source projects.
I want to start an open source project for the android. But it's way over my head.

Who else is a computer nerd.

I got a bachelor CSE so I guess I qualify. But my masters is ECE in dsp so I write code, but for dsp chips. C and C++. Graduated Dec of 08. Definitely don't do any coding in my offtime though. I was kind of thinking of writing an mp3 decoder for fun, but haven't done too much with it.

The project that is way over my head would require C, need to write a driver. If you're ever bored and want to give it a try PM me, I'll let you know what I'm thinking.

Wish I had formal training. Taught myself BASIC forever ago when I was still in grade school and then HTML in 7th grade ('94 I think). Finally in HS I was able to take a year of Pascal and 2 years of C++. Never went to college or anything but a few years back I learned XHTML/CSS/PHP and made some sites as kind of a hobby.

I actually want to go back to school and get some certs like CCNA and do Networking or Network Security.

I'm a software and electrical engineer, but I don't have an Android so I won't be much help to you. Last time I wrote a device driver was 1997 and it was for NT 4.0! I let other people do the dirty work now, LOL.

:hello:
But I do not do programming, so I am no help, I do networking & security mostly right now.

Teach me! I'm tired of selling shit for a living. I like dealing with the people (except my Boss's wife) but otherwise it's sooooooooo remedial.

Unfortunately I am learning each day.
I have no certs currently but will probably by the end of the year. Long story short, the guy in charge of our setup in Houston actually is in the UK (with all the rest of the IT/IS department) and he is leaving the company. No one else knows the system, other than me, but I am not 100% ready to take the position so I will slowly be pushed into it basically.

If you need help, PM wstar on the boards. He has been working with Android for awhile but not sure he has any finished work.

I used to program 68000 assembly (Amiga, Sega Genesis) around 20 years ago. I'm in a nerdy industry, but I've slowly un-nerded myself over the years to concentrate on art and creativity instead.

I'll probably just take some classes and get my CCNA and maybe Security+ then I can gtfo of this industry and make real money. My previous company was going to put me over 50 after bonuses but then the boss (a kid my age with no work experience that got the place when his dad died) got greedy and cut everyone's bonus in half, and half as often. I bounced.

IT/Network/Programming is what I like to do, just gotta go out and do it. I need a Pell grant lol

I think I still have an Amiga II layin around somewhere! Original Test Drive FTW!

It's easy and fun to learn, you don't need a degree to learn. The best way to learn is to get yourself a pet project to work on in your spare time, and then you can learn what you need to learn as you go. The trick is breaking up the project into small manageable pieces so that you can focus on a small task rather than the whole project. If you did 2 years of C++ then you should have enough to get you rolling, download a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio Express (free) and the Windows SDK and read the online guides on how to get everything configured. You can play with compiling the samples in the SDK to knock the rust off.

Amiga II? Amiga 1000? I loved the Amiga. I had a 500+. Wonderful machine. Felt just right. I never connected with winblows at all. I ended up going Mac just because it feels closer to the Amiga, somehow.

68000 assembly was a beautiful thing (as assembly language goes). Much more intuitive than this Intel crap we're stuck with today. I loved my Amiga.

Yeah I remember back in the day getting a few VB books and learning that way. With all of the online tutorials and crap it should be easy to jump into application programming with C++ especially since I've kept most of the concepts of things like functions and recursion fresh doing PHP. Web of course is not the way I want to go. I did it in the past right about '99/'00 for a living and it was not a good way to make money. I'll probably take some time to do that, but I'm thinking networking might be the right way to go as far as a real job goes.

B.S in comp sci, I currently work as a programmer. Mostly unix/Linux, and dare i say it, vms.

VB...yuck! haha.

Some newer technologies that I think would be good to learn would be:

WPF/WCF
anything Web 2.0 (I know, I know, it's really just a buzz word) like JQuery/Prototype pretty much anything using AJAX.
Python

Web Development can be a very good industry to get into, you just need to get into a Software as a Service project and get away from Web DESIGN jobs.

Honestly, without Web Development I would never of learned enough to get into the software side of things. The job I start in July will be my first Software job.

I've had three internships during college, one doing asp.NET/c# and SOAP web services, the other was just a html/css internship - it was easy money, the third was another web app using Ruby on Rails and REST. Without the first and third internship I think I would be lost as a programmer...Penn States IST program is more for networking and project management - not really development.

All the nerds are in Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai. :ugh2:

I haven't gotten into AJAX/RoR/.NET at all. Definitely is where things are going online though.

Hi,

Graduated in computer science 04'...

I mostly drifted away from programming and into the infrastructure part of the industry... Worked as an systems consultant first working my way into an MCSE:Security and as an active directory / security buff... but now ive been working on Enterprise / Carrier level networks and working my way from an CCNA/CCDA certification halfway through my CCNP cert...

Can't complain much... theres always something new.

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs188...._7160843_n.jpg
There's been a slight change since that photo last month:
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs185...._4481008_n.jpg
Love my job :)

....I can add and subtract binary....no?.....ok:shakes head::wtf2:

Griffen Technology PowerMates! I've got two I use!

Wow nice setup

http://homepage.mac.com/misterboo/.P...D88B9411DB.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/misterboo/.P...DCCD3F11DC.jpg

The only programming I'm doing these days is MIDI...

;)

love it for when I edit video, mainly

In case anyone's interested, I wrote up a complete history of my office setup over on my blog. It's something I've been meaning to get to for a while now. This is an ongoing project that has gone on for 8 years so far! Have some changes in mind for 2010...

Heh, wish I had money instead of monthly payments so I could post up a car journal as well :P

That's a sweet little studio. What camera is that I see in the corner of the second pic?

Thanks! It's tiny, but I call it home.

It's an HVX200, stripped back down to stock.

Here's what it looks like when I can be bothered to set it up with my 35mm adapter and rails:

http://homepage.mac.com/misterboo/.Pictures/HVX02.jpg

:tup:

Master's in Computer Science from Stony Brook, NY (quit my PhD). . . working now.

Good thread!

Ahem!! ;) Moved to NY from New Delhi here :P

I've got an MS in CS. I code therefore I eat/clothe myself/drive a Z.

C coder.

Haha cool, I'm a big Amiga fan too. I collect them. I work IT for the USAF too. :)

Definitely a big computer nerd here. I work as a linux system administrator.

Here is a pick of my 45U rack that is in my house:

http://box.houkouonchi.jp/rack_pics/dsc_7586-small.jpg

I have about 70TB worth of disks in that rack =) All together I would estimate probably around 20k USD of hardware. I bought it all back before I had a house and car payment =) Won't be doing upgrades for quite a while now.

I also have fiber internet (two lines) bonded for around 70/70 speeds:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1070788850.png

Needless to say I am a bit of a speed freak (both on the road and on the net) :tiphat:

Are you hosting porn servers out of your house or what? LOL

I am just a bit of a storage pack rat. I have a massive media collection and I generally don't delete anything I download. I also have a 2U server at work that is a core i7 style xeon, 24 GB of ram, 8x1.5 TB in raid6 and 4x256 GB SSD raid0 and 2 gigs of internet connectivity. I push a ton of traffic off that machine (much more than whats possible off my home connections).

Feels like home here. Cheers

I am the same, I have a 24U server rack with only two systems right now. One has 11TB though, slowly building it all up.

I guess I qualify too..

I have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems and a M.S. in Information Security and Assurance. I also have a couple of certs.. Network+/Security+ and CEH. Planning to get CHFI sometime soon..

Working in security consulting, pen testing, vulnerability and risk assessment, computer forensics, etc..

I studied the M.S. degree in Maryland for a year at Towson University. I'll go back one day.. hehe..

Nice to have a bunch of fellow nerds on the forum.. :tup:

w00t. Rack comrade!