Anyone know a C++ ATL/MFC/Win32 guru?

[dequadin]

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[Fuma]

Is your company willing to make someone a guru?

 

[midrange]

I may know someone - have you listed this position anywhere?

 

[midrange]

I've mailed him, will let you know.

 

[midrange]

He's not your man:

All my C++ dev experience has been wrapped in C++ Builder or DirectX stuff. Very little raw win32 dev.

 

[Raithlin]

Don't these skills exist anymore? Where where you guys 10 years ago, Visual Basic 6?

ASP, actually.

 

[midrange]

Don't these skills exist anymore? Where where you guys 10 years ago, Visual Basic 6?

Yip, and coding without "option explicit" set. What glorious times!

 

[Fuma]

Don't these skills exist anymore? Where where you guys 10 years ago, Visual Basic 6?

Not everyone is that old you know.
The average age of myBB members is 24.

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Not everyone is that old you know.
The average age of myBB members is 24.

Then I feel pretty old... Looks my age contributes to upping the average a bit!

 

[Fuma]

Then I feel pretty old... Looks my age contributes to upping the average a bit!

I thought you were around that age. Max 27.

 

[Raithlin]

Then I feel pretty old... Looks my age contributes to upping the average a bit!

Contributes, or skews? :erm:

Seriously though, if there was a pro here, he should have replied by now.

 

[sn3rd]

Contributes, or skews? :erm:

Seriously though, if there was a pro here, he should have replied by now.

Did someone say "pro"... ?

Haha...

Seriously though, what do the profilers and debuggers say?

 

[midrange]

Contributes, or skews?

I'm an outlier, ignored when determining the average age here.

 

[sn3rd]

I know of a couple of *NIX profilers, but none for Windows?

gdb? Ol' faithful

And not sure if you have access to VTune...

Plus my COM objects are loaded into another process, not sure how to debug/profile that?

Same process. gdb should give you everything you need.

 

[FarligOpptreden]

I thought you were around that age. Max 27.

Well, you're pretty right on the max then...

 

[BobsLawnService]

This is a situation companies that don't keep up to date with modern technology find themselves in.

My advice is to start rewriting your software in a more popular language.

 

[BobsLawnService]

That graph is all good and well but in my experience people are moving away from MFC/ATL.

As evidenced by this thread the skills are extremely hard to come by and very expensive to keep.

 

[sn3rd]

That graph is all good and well but in my experience people are moving away from MFC/ATL.

As evidenced by this thread the skills are extremely hard to come by and very expensive to keep.

These skills still exist, and seem pretty popular to me.

All tech has its place in the world.

 

[Fuma]

This is a situation companies that don't keep up to date with modern technology find themselves in.

My advice is to start rewriting your software in a more popular language.

Are you saying dequadin is old school?
Real developers should know C/C++/Assembler.

 

[BobsLawnService]

I know c/c++ but not assembler. 2/3 aint so bad, right?