Hi!

[AJCopland]

Welcome to Amiga.org, hope you dont get scared off easily :-D

I second the setting up of your A1200 again, you just need a decent game as a good excuse i found.

Also what kind of technical articles do you author?

Andy

[AJCopland]

mel_zoom wrote:

AJCopland: I write whatever the company needs. For the most part its end-user product documentation. I have to write a range of documentation for end-users, resellers as well as gathering together and correlating the internal documentation for developers. Those guys tend to be great at writing code, but their idea of "documentation" are scribbles on paper, whiteboards or whatever else comes easily to hand.

Time to get on with just that!

:-D Yeah I know I'm a code monkey, documentation just doesn't come naturally once it's been so thoroughly drummed out of you by University, I was amazing at it before I became educated! :lol:

Its also time for me to try and drag a specification kicking and screaming out of one our designers.

Andy

[AJCopland]

Karlos wrote:

AJCopland wrote:

Its also time for me to try and drag a specification kicking and screaming out of one our designers.

Don't go around giving people into contact sports (that I happen not to have submitted said notes to on time) ideas involving kicking and screaming. Please.

Sometimes its the only way! They're like puppies when they pee in the corner and you have to rub their nose in it so they wont do it again. A harsh lesson but important... obviously I dont make them smell their own wee or anything...

I think i'll stop there :-D

No I like the designers, they do the thinking so that I don't have to. It's just that you often need more description in my feedback than: "Change the behaviour." things like: of what? to what? from what? how? which mini-game are you referring too? what element of that mini-game? is it even a mini-game you're referring too? etc etc etc :roll: gotta reel them in and get a solid answer sometimes.

Andy

[AJCopland]

I think the Blizzard 1230 can take much more than that 8mb and SIMMs aren't too expensive, which version of the 1230 do you have?
Old 2.5" laptop harddrives are cheap, I picked up a 4GB one on eBay for £3 last year and it's given my miggy a new life Especially if you get WHDLoad.

Apparently you can add most of the OS3.9 features using the BoingBag updates. Someone else will have to comfirm that though. www.amigakit.com do ROMs for about £18 but i can't see OS 3.9 at the moment.

Andy

Edit: corrected links.

Edit2: no really corrected links this time :-D

[AJCopland]

@Mel
Think this is just about the fastest growing thread on here at the moment. For example I just logged in and the thread update count was 13 mails total: 2 for "MiniMig", 10 for "Hi!" and one for "WELCOME!" :-D

@Karlos
I think you're being entirely TOO generous to the fellow.

Andy

[AJCopland]

@A4000_Mad
 :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :python:

[AJCopland]

@all the coders
Language wars are pointless, you use what you must when you must and what you can when it's possible. Most of these choices will be made for you by the availability of the particular functionality you desire to achieve your goal.

I've gone from AMOS -> BASIC -> 68k asm -> VisualBasic -> PASCAL -> C -> C++ -> JAVA -> MIP32 assembler -> PS2 Vector Unit Assembler -> oh-god-who-cares anymore.

You can be as proficient as you like in VB.NET and then you'll be asked to: "port it run the server on Linux oh and the client on Mac oh and by the way how's the Xbox360 port coming along?" and then you'll be in trouble.

It doesn't matter. They're all good.
You learn to program but it doesn't exactly matter what language you learn IN it's the art of programming WELL that matters.

@mel
I think you've been welcomed and accepted now :crazy:

And with that I'm removing myself from further notifications on this thread and gonna watch Anime with my girlfriend :-D

Goodnight folks.

Andy

[AJCopland]

@everyone
Actually the important part was this.

oh-god-who-cares anymore.

:-D

Andy