{"id":1673,"date":"2009-07-11T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2009\/07\/11\/im-a-vb-bruce-meeker\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:47:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:47:48","slug":"im-a-vb-bruce-meeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/im-a-vb-bruce-meeker\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm A VB: Bruce Meeker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>How long have you been using VB?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

15 years<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>What industry do you work in?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Utility\/Nuclear<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>How big is your development team?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

We have about 8 actual developers in an application group of 20.  <\/span>We rarely have more than 2 working a project at a time.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>What kind of apps do you most commonly build?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Client Server applications and interfaces to third party software.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>What\u2019s the most interesting app you\u2019ve ever built?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

A toss-up between one I worked on for the Health Physics organization about 3 years ago on VB6 and the one I’m currently working on now for Procedure Maintenance and Control (PMAC) on VB.Net 2008.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>Please tell us about an app that you\u2019re working on at the moment.<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

PMAC is an application for identifying deficiencies in Controlled procedures, tracking through the revision process, producing QA records and vaulting them in our EDMS system.  <\/span>Our plant makes approximately 2000 procedure revisions a year.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>What other technologies do you most commonly use?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Oracle PL\/SQL. Some XML.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>What are some of your favorite VB features?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Hands down my favorite is intelliSense. Outside of PL\/SQL I don’t really have much to compare to other than some C# applications. It’s just easier for me to read VB code.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>        <\/span>What do you like most about VB as a programming language?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Ease of use. RAD.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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For other interviews in this series, please visit <\/font><\/span><\/b>http:\/\/imavb.net<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/a>. <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Are you a VB, too? Submit your story <\/font><\/span><\/b>here<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/a>!<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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