Last day at my current job Nov10 '05
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# (2 of 5): Matthom
3 hours, 49 minutes after the fact. (Thu 10 Nov 2005, 1:10 PM CST)
Thanks, Jennifer. And thanks for all of your help with web-related stuff... I'm sure I'll be using your advice and examples in the very near-future, as well!
# (3 of 5): Josh » joahua.com/blog
8 hours, 14 minutes after the fact. (Thu 10 Nov 2005, 5:34 PM CST)
So, uh, are you gonna say what (where) the new job is? Same kind of context or will you be in a team or...
Just curious... :)
# (4 of 5): Matthom
8 hours, 59 minutes after the fact. (Thu 10 Nov 2005, 6:19 PM CST)
Josh, how dare you ask me that.
No I'm just kidding.
I'll talk more about it very soon. Right now I just want to do nothing but stare at the wall for a couple days. (I really needed some more time off, in between starting a new job.)
I will be in a team, sort of - but I will still be doing PHP work - maybe some ASP (ahh, the horror!), and definitely a LOT of MS Access, which I love. Maybe a lot of work in Access will finally push me into the .NET realm. (As if it's necessary). Notice my anti-Microsoft-web-technologies attitude. I just can't understand why .NET has to be so deeply involved and bulky. Why does Microsoft believe that ending development of ASP was a good thing? I don't need a framework, I just want to jump in and start coding, like PHP!
Woah - where did all that come from? I dunno.
# (5 of 5): Josh » joahua.com/blog
10 hours, 29 minutes after the fact. (Thu 10 Nov 2005, 7:49 PM CST)
Ahh cool. Just don't get too sucked into the whole .NET thing! From what I've heard of it from various WSG people, it's nigh on impossible to get it to play nice with markup. Nice to see you're anti-Microsoft-web-technologies, though :P
Have fun in time off... though I'd be inclined to try something more exciting than staring at a wall! (But then again, it's summer on this side of the world and I'm about to go on holidays, and in winter/towards winter I'd be prone to staying inside lots and reading, too!)
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Today is my last day at my job as a web developer for an engraving business. I have been here exactly a year (November 8, 2004).
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# (1 of 5): Jennifer Grucza » jennifergrucza.com
2 hours, 30 minutes after the fact. (Thu 10 Nov 2005, 11:50 AM CST)
I definitely agree that working side-by-side with other developers makes you better, particularly if you're working with really talented people. It's the same way in music, I think. When you play with people who are better than you, it lifts your own level up as well.
Being able to bounce ideas back and forth, debating the merits of one design vs. another, is invaluable.
Good luck on your new job!