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·<\/span>        <\/span>How long have you been using VB?<\/p>\n

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1 year<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What industry do you work in?<\/p>\n

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Land surveyor<\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>How big is your development team?<\/p>\n

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1 person – ME!<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What kind of apps do you most commonly build?<\/p>\n

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If anything needs a quicker way to do something I build an app, generally ones to speed up processing in land surveying, currently working on an app to process GSI files<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What’s the most interesting app you’ve ever built?<\/p>\n

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not sure, a lot of my apps ar just mini projects to keep me up to scratch with it, nothing major yet, would probably say a system information app i wrote one day as a little project, or an SQL db client.<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>Please tell us about an app that you’re working on at the moment.<\/p>\n

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GSI Cleanup, general tasks for GSI files, Load files, and cross section ascii files used in river cross sections<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What other technologies do you most commonly use?<\/p>\n

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solitaire!<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What are some of your favorite VB features?<\/p>\n

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Speed of UI creation, tidyer code, how easy it is for anyone to pick up and start, without a boring month long introduction you can be into the code fairly quickly<\/span><\/p>\n

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·<\/span>        <\/span>What do you like most about VB as a programming language?<\/p>\n

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I picked it up quickly and it meets all the demands i need it for.<\/p>\n

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For other interviews in this series, please visit <\/span><\/b>http:\/\/imavb.net<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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