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BrassGear:
Hi,

I would like to find remote work, to supplement my income as a creator of custom software.

Languages I am most adept at:

Object Pascal, both FreePascal and Delphi.
PHP
Pure Javascript
MySQL
HTML
CSS

Other languages I have experience with:

C++
C# and .net
Python
Go

I have also worked with React and node.js, however usually I find it more efficient to write the specific features that are needed from these frameworks, so as not to put the burden on the user's client to load and parse all the features that are not needed from them.

Before I went into business for myself, I worked as a senior engineer for a company that produces a medical suite. Here I was responsible for expanding and maintaining the core suite, which was a complex set of applications that had started life more than forty years ago as a DOS application. We maintained backwards compatibility and modern features, including its own custom programming language, which I debugged and expanded on a number of times. Given that this custom programming language did not start out being designed by experienced language architects, maintaining backwards compatibility led to some eccentricities, but we made it work. It was fast and reliable.

The main suite included a number of complex applications which I either worked on, was the first contact for, or was solely responsible for. These included, but were not limited to:

A bespoke IDE for multiple languages, which I was the first contact for. It included a form builder, which we maintained and expanded as a team.
A number of quite unique internal messaging systems, which I became solely responsible for.
A server and a client application.
An image editor.
A custom skinning system for the user interface.
A complex document compositor for printed documents that I was solely responsible for and no one else wanted to touch.

I worked at this company for fifteen years. In this time they went from a small company to a very large one. Though being a senior engineer, I often had to work with the users themselves. A valuable non-programming skill I learned is the ability to explain something complex in a simple manner, without sounding condescending. I eventually quit from this company when the wastefulness resulting from having become a very large company became too much for a supplicant of efficiency such as myself.

I am very fond of working with compiled languages, especially Borland languages. Lately I find myself enjoying pure Javascript quite a bit. It is very flexible.

cdbc:
Hey BrassGear
Does 'EMAR' ring a bell?  :D
I used to work for a company that sounds very much like the one you described...
Regards Benny

BrassGear:
It doesn't. :)

Did they too become a producer of unproductive meetings?

cdbc:
Hi
I would guess so, they got bought by their biggest competitor in the market...
Regards Benny

BrassGear:
If you can't beat them, buy them.

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