In the company I currently work for we have regular trips for the entire company. These are made to help team building, which they always do! Lost of drinking talking, and to prevent it looking like a beer fest some presentations about the company planning.
One of the major drawbacks, other then the amount of money it must be costing, is the risk of illness. In our most recent trip a few people had a cold. As you can imagine by the end of the two day trip over a third of the people have a cold. Which is not something the management wants out of these trips.
So are these trips a big risk in getting the masses ill.
I, like most developers, work in a wide variety of programming languages. From PhP scripting to C++. Now I’m not new to the world of C#, but I didn’t like it much when I was working in Visual Studio 2003.
A while back I started working some minor projects in Visual Studio 2005 and C# 2.0. To my surprise I could set up a basic program a lot quicker then I usual. The interface of VS 2005 has improved, but also the speed at which you can program something in C# 2.
For one a lot of new objects have been introduced into the .Net FrameWork, which is a fancy word for a big ass compiler that has to be loaded for every single program. Even though I believe that you can make software more easily in C#, I’ll probably only use it for developing stuff with a GUI. The rest I’ll keep doing in C++, which is so much leaner in memory and gives a lot more control.
What about you, what do you think?