On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Daevid Vincent <daevid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Lol, on your resumé page, the popup says you're not a Java man, but > then > > > the actual resumé says you are... :p > > No. I wrote Java for 3.5 years at WildTangent, a company I founded as > employee #2 back in 1998, and left once I felt it was starting to become > sketchy and we had grown to over 250 employees. That doesn't make me a > "Java man". The popup is correct. I have no desire to code in Java or C# > or Perl or any What is your gripe on perl? That language is awesome. > other language but LAMP (well, maybe Ruby would be > acceptable). I get a recruiter a day contacting me in spite of that > message, but it does help to weed out the rest of them. Knowing a > language or previously coding in it doesn't mean you want to continue to > use it forever. > > > > AND you worked for WildTangent. Enough said. Haha. > > When we started WildTangent, we were the first company to do 3D graphics > in a web page. We effectively put microsoft's "Chrome" out of business > and we did amazing things. You could write full blown games using basic > Javascript or Java IN a web page. You didn't need to know complex math > or collision detection algorithms or trig or calc or anything. The > average programmer could create games or other graphics (3D pie-charts, > etc) easily. > > Now they're a less than average game company that doesn't even use the > WebDriver and has a stigma of adware. I was proud of what I accomplished > at WildTangent, despite what it has degraded into now (which I left in > 10/2001, so had nothing to do with that debacle). > > *sigh* It's unfortunate you guys can't see past some superficial stuff > and have an intelligent dialog about frameworks and help the OP with his > question. Instead this has turned into an "attack" on me -- one of the > few people who posted opinions and helpful insight for him to make an > informed decision. Thanks to those who did agree with me, and even > those who disagree'd politely. > > d. > > -- Kyle Terry | www.kyleterry.com
