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GENERAL => General chat => Topic started by: zparticle on June 27, 2006

Title: Woo Hoo!
Post by: zparticle on June 27, 2006: Finally got a net connect at home again. Cable modem, nice and speedy.

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Title: Re: Woo Hoo!
Post by: Clyde on June 27, 2006: Welldone and congrats mate.
Title: Re: Woo Hoo!
Post by: Shockwave on June 28, 2006: Congratulations :)
Now you'll be able to browse much faster.

The internet connection just fucked up on this pc this afternoon and I couldn't work out why so I connected with dial up at first just to quickly check my mail.
I can't believe how slow dial up is :-\ Needless to say I re-configured my cable modem immediately and now I'm browsing nice and quick.

I'm going to poll the users I think and see what connections everyone is using.
Title: Re: Woo Hoo!
Post by: Stonemonkey on June 28, 2006: When I had BT broadband a while back they messed up my connection and i had to use dial up for a bit, wasn't nice at all.
Title: Re: Woo Hoo!
Post by: cirux on June 28, 2006: I know the feeling, I was without any internet connection for two weeks and only just got reconnected myself two weeks ago.. you feel cut off in some ways.
Title: Re: Woo Hoo!
Post by: zparticle on June 28, 2006: I've not had a connection at home for years now, I always just use the one at work. But I'm trying to get a little home business going so I had to have a home connection.
Title: Re: Woo Hoo!
Post by: Clyde on June 28, 2006: If you dont mind me asking, what line of business are you in dude?
Title: Re: Woo Hoo!
Post by: zparticle on June 29, 2006: My day job is as corporate developer.Â I create web sites (interactive systems not that simple crap) for our partners, customers, employees, etc.Â I write business to business systems for processing orders between us and our partners.Â Also reporting tools for our employees.Â That stuff is all J2EE based development (Java).Â I've also had the opportunity to create some desktop software using C#

The home business stuff is selling on-line, right now I'm focusing on used books, but other types of mechandise will come into play.Â I wrote my own inventory system for it again J2EE based.

In my career I've done:

Two automotive point of sale/marketing systems that were in wide use in the US. CBASIC - crappy language
Another automotive point of sale/marketing system that never saw the light of day. - C
Electronic prescription service for doctors offices somewhat wide use. - C and C++
Worked on a medical network system that had had around 65,000 doctors connected to labs, pharmacies, hospitals and each other.Â - C and C++
Created a windows front end for the above. - Visual Basic and VC++
Created an advanced web based version of the above.Â -Â Java
Helped create and maintain the first version of Janus Funds customer web site.Â - Java
Created a full system for online interactive content and customer data tracking for an internet startup. - J2EE

and now I do what I said above.Â Probably a lot of other crap I've forgotten :)
Title: Re: Woo Hoo!
Post by: zparticle on June 29, 2006: Here is the web site for the new business, I still have a bit of work to do on it so don't judge to harshly.

http://www.overlandbooks.com
Title: Re: Woo Hoo!
Post by: Shockwave on June 29, 2006: Looks nice :) Is it your sitebuilder program that generated the page? It's very professional looking.
Title: Re: Woo Hoo!
Post by: zparticle on June 29, 2006: I used the sitebuilder program from yahoo. It has abunch of templates that are very nice. Needed something good looking for the business.