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

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10+ years, starting with VB 3.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Software, Financial, Energy over the last 10+ years.<\/p>\n

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

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5.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Back end processes without GUIs for processing database data coming from end user web applications, OCR’d documents, and legacy data.<\/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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A report scheduling application with multiple queues, sceduled start times, and load balancing amongst multiple database servers.<\/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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Oracle time entry reporting system.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Oracle, C#, Win32, UNIX command line tools, batch scripting (DOS, UNIX).<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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.NET Framework and ease of moving from VB to C# and C# to VB.<\/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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.NET Framework.<\/p>\n

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

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

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