John Harding

My current business card says I'm a Senior Software Developer at Creative Solutions (and it wouldn't lie, would it?). I guess I'm senior in a junior sort of way - 8 years of software development. Most of it desktop applications in C++ on the Win32 platform. The coolest project I was involved with was CALVIN - a distributed data logging system for Ford. Alas, this was also the most politically hampered project.

I consider myself a 3 (3.5 on a good day) on a 1 to 5 scale of C++ skills (we always ask candidates to rate themselves like this - 1 means you can spell C++ 5 means you're intimately acquainted with Storustroup - nearly everybody says 3 and most people we interview are 2.5 or less. That's obviously subjective! I consider myself lucky to work with some 4's.

About once a year, I get re-sensitized about "process" (or our complete disregard for it) - I'm currently reading up about XP (shame about the name).

Oh, yeah - I have a disease called "verbositis" ...

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