<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:51 PM, David Alban <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:extasia@extasia.org">extasia@extasia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
two questions about your job:<br>
<br>
1, break down, by percentage of time, what you do. if you think the<br>
terminology you use isn't generally understood by this audience,<br>
elaborate a little bit.<br>
2, break down, by percentage of code you write, the languages you use<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Time:<br><br>30% design, architecture, talking to people about what they're doing and how they're going about it<br>50% code new features, skunkwork ideas<br>20% bugfixes on our infrastructure<br>
<br>Languages:<br><br>85% perl<br>10% java<br>5% bash (mostly when called from java)<br><br>-- <br>Dan Boger<br>