A week at i2c Inc.
Thanks God!, the weekend is here. Its almost a week now since I joined at Innovative as a technical writer. And the credit of this job again goes to ASPAlliance.com. My one year stay with ASP Alliance got considered as an experience in technical writing and I became the strongly recommended candidate for the job.
All this week there was just one task that was assigned to me and that I have been doing for 40 hours in the last week. And the task was to study the FastCash System that this company has created. Most of the time studying, I felt like I have not joined the company as a technical writer, but as a technical reader.
The company is Java based. They are using Java for their development. And guess what? I am the only .NET guy that they have. From day one, whenever I get a chance, I start to mention the features and advantages that .NET has over Java to the development team. But it seems to me like those guys are not willing to learn a new technology and invest their time in it. They start mentioning the same old things that Java is an open source technology and that their are some standard technologies in Java and etc., to which I give a damn shit.
I have observed that the executives of the company are quite interested in .NET. During my interviews, before appointment, he told me several times that we had planned to shift to .NET, but due to our massive amount of work in Java, we dropped the plan. I told him that there are several ways to shift from Java to .NET. You can convert your Java based components and code to C# or you can choose J#.NET as the language of choice which is similar in syntax to Java.
Anyway, what ever decisions they make I will be doing my best in conveying them that shifting to .NET will be a better option. I wonder if I can get any assistance from Microsoft in this regard? If they can provide some assistance then, I think, I will be able to clear my points to them in a better way.