I’m now a full-time Rails developer
I recently switched to a new job as a C# developer at cBrain. While I have respect for what they do at cBrain, the place just wasn’t for me. It would have been a great place to work for me, if I had agreed and could identify myself with their way of building software. I guess I am more of a domain model developer than a transaction script developer.
Although the place wasn’t for me, I still got a chance to learn quite a big deal, got to meet-, and got to know some extraordinary people as well. So it wasn’t all a lost cause.
So I found myself a new job. A job that has turned out to be more than I could ever hope for.
Even though I am now the oldest developer on my team (Wow! At AdPepper, they called me “the kid”) – the team has got a motivation to learn new things and to do a great job that I haven’t seen anywhere else. Beside that, we are using and are all excited about using the tools that I happen to like; we are all developing full-time on the RoR platform (although some legacy systems needs to be maintained), we are in the process of implementing true XP, and trying to use Personas to bring in User Centered Design into the process (which I wrote my master thesis on). It couldn’t be better.
I’ve been working at Benjamin for two weeks now, and I’m ecstatic. It can only be good from here…
February 20th, 2008 at 4:18 am
Hey,
Welcome to the club of RoR developers. Making money off of Rails, and Ruby especially was a strange experience, like being paid for a hobby. I had that feeling after my first developer job, but Ruby sweetens the deal!
Enjoy, Bart
February 20th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Glad to hear everything’s working out for you, sounds like you were practically born for that position
Best of luck!
/Martin @ cBrain