Heavy Duty Programmer

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Heavy Duty Programmer

Are you?

Habtom

1:34 pm on Jul 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

Do you classify yourself as a Heavy Duty Programmer? What does that mean anyway?

jatar_k

2:22 pm on Jul 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

I have no idea what that means, overweight? only work on large machinery? over worked?

Demaestro

2:32 pm on Jul 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

I have never heard that term used for programming.

I would say that it involves doing "high end" programming..... something like programming a vector graphics software suite or something really intensive.

Like Audio/Video editors.

LifeinAsia

3:32 pm on Jul 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

I listen to heavy metal music while coding. Close enough?

Monkey

4:21 pm on Jul 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

One word actually comes to mind "geek"

rocknbil

5:38 pm on Jul 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

I program in perl php, asp, Javascript, VBscript, Visual Basic, and of course all flavors of html and css. I sit here every day between 6-8 hours at a stretch, sometimes grabbing a nap between 3-6 PM and working until 3 or 4 AM. I won't take shortcuts and sometimes wrangle for hours over a problem that is significant as the head of a pin in the interest of doing it as right as I can muster. Does that qualify? :-(

grandpa

6:13 pm on Jul 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

Does that qualify?

That sounds like an average geek to me. :)

Maybe I've been in all the wrong circles for the last couple of decades (it's possible), but I don't recall ever hearing the phrase Heavy Duty Programmer. I would have applied for the position, once upon a time. It sounds like extra pay.

Monkey

10:26 pm on Jul 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

LOL - I see it now in future job specs "heavy duty programmer required"

Wonder if that would equate to a heavy duty dust bin bag ;o)

WesleyC

3:03 am on Aug 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

I don't know if number of languages qualifies, but I've completed or am working on projects in...

QBASIC
VB 6.0
C/MPLab
C++/Borland
C#/ASP.NET
PHP
Javascript
All flavors HTML + CSS
SQL (several flavors, including MySQL, SQLite, MSSQL 2000, 2005, and 2005 Express, though the differences between 2005 and Express are negligible)

I've picked up most of these in the past 3 years, and am now doing professional work in all of them.

Just for kicks, I started looking up Ruby on Rails over lunch today... Perhaps another language to look into. :)

The only nickname I've ever been given was "King of Nerds".

I'm not sure what is meant by "Heavy Duty Programmer" (mostly because my Encyclopedia de Google doesn't list it for any obvious search terms other than this topic in WebmasterWorld), so I can't really say if I qualify. :P