Re: New job and I want to change the world...

From: steve (me_at_me.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:03:46 +0800

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:27:58 +0800, VisionSet wrote
(in article <OdoZd.772$6P4.224@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>):

>
> Having been on this group quite a bit over the last 5+ years and almost
> finishing my second degree, with some Java certs too...
> I have now managed the career change and secured my first IT position.
> Problem is it is not in Java, and the language is some pretty ropey inhouse
> derivative of FoxPro.
> Naturally the company would be much improved by ditching this and shifting
> to Java :-)
> The majority of the programmers code in this inhouse language and don't have
> much expertise in proprietory languages, since they are all junior roles and
> I guess it is most peoples 1st programming job. There is another department
> that code all the utilities we use, mainly in Delphi.
> The business produces interactive voice recording applications (like phone
> banking etc) But for a very specialised market.
> Personally I think the whole business domain should be modeled in UML
> starting now, I think there can only be benefits in doing this. This can be
> a precursor to going down the Java road or whatever. Naturally OO is the
> way to go :-)
>
> Now I want to get more out of this job, so I would like to be involved in
> this process. I'm very junior but the company seems to have the right
> attitude in this regard. How should I go about getting this process
> started?
>
> Obviously I know the specifics, but general pointers would be appreciated.
>
>

watch out on the fox, 4 main areas you will have problems with , over java.

1. report gen
2. screen gen.
3. non-standard second source plugins.
4. database locale

basic background routines are easy to transfer over, as is , and java is
better for this.

Remember foxpro is a partial DATABASE language for manipulating databases (
remote or local)

Java is not.

steve

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