The Whiteboard

12:55 PM

This would be better suited over at Programmers.SE... — DrewJordan 1 min ago

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2:34 PM

Either Project Management or Programmers, but read their FAQs first. — Juhana 58 secs ago

3:03 PM

If there exists a best practice among programmers: It seems to be a relevant question to me. — Neil 25 secs ago

deostroll

3:45 PM

How is it that we've to send a c-struct over the wire...? Like via a socket...

ratchet freak

make sure there are no pointers in the struct and then just cast to void*

length of the data will be the sizeof

on the other side you cast it back and hope the endianess and aligns are the same

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MetaFight

8:09 PM

@ratchetfreak I recently did this... and to my surprise it worked. I suspect the dev on the other side of the wire may have done a bit of data massaging and not tell me.

from C# to C++/CLI over the wire to some proprietary embedded system. Unless we got lucky, it really wouldn't have "just worked."

I think this question is a better fit for Programmers SE. — jaco0646 14 secs ago

9:03 PM

I think this might be regarded as too broad here, Daniel, and if a macro is not involved then it might not involve programming, in which case it is off-topic anyway. A good course of action is to assume that it can be done using a macro, make a start on it, and edit that attempt in. That might be a good way to tempt Outlook/VBA programmers from making suggestions on how to do what you wish to achieve. — halfer 28 secs ago

9:41 PM

Has anyone here gotten into a software development career from a non-software development background? I've got a degree in biology and some python development experience and I could use some advice!

9:56 PM

How did you get Python development experience?

I was referred to a job working on a bioinformatics python module. I've been doing that for the past year, but my project is almost done and I'm going to need a new job soon. The trouble is I don't really have any web application or database experience.

What sort of work do you want to do?

ratchet freak

not all software dev work is web

Continuing to work on scientific applications would be good, although I don't know how many places are hiring for that sort of thing. Honestly I'd be happy doing any sort of development work.

What's the best way to find out who's hiring? I've just got job blasts set up for Indeed and Linkedin, is there a better way? I'm not terribly well-connected to people in software development, which is another problem

10:13 PM

Well, Stackoverflow does have a jobs site.

stackoverflow.com/jobs?t=c&r=home

Oh, I'm also keeping an eye on those jobs as well. Seems like most posting are for senior-level developers, though

If you have them, local Python meetups tend to be sponsored by people searching for Python devs.

Good idea, I'll take a look and see if I can find any in my area

Here's one: meetup.com/ChicagoPythonistas

Here's another: meetup.com/_ChiPy_

Hah, yeah, I jusst joined ChicagoPythonistas

ratchet freak

10:27 PM

@C_Z_ being able to code your way out of a wet paper bag it more valuable than a "senior" title on your previous job

though making sure the interviewer is convinced of your prowess is difficult