Job change
I have worked for Ad Pepper media for the last 10 months. I’ve had a great time and some great colleagues, from whom I’ve learned much and had shared some goot times with. But now, it’s time to move on.
This means that I will be taking a long break from PHP. I would have thought the next switch would be for a full-time Rails job, but instead I got keen on the idea to come working for cBrain – a .NET based web company. Yes – you heard it right! .NET based! Besides them being some really cool guys, my new job will be giving me a chance to challenge myself in a multitude of new ways – not only with a new programming language, but also with new tasks and responsibilities.
So even though I have despised enterprise software since I first started hearing about it, I have now accepted an enterprise developer job! Why? Well, first of all, I’ve always despised enterprise development, but I haven’t really tried it. I have been riding on the anti-enterprise wave with many other fellow rails programmers, who have been engulfed by the opinionated software thoughts of Rail’s founder. I haven’t had time to actually evaluate if those opinions were right or wrong. I haven’t made my own judgements.
Even though I agree with- and can identify with the opinions underlying Rails and in particular agile programming (which my new job does not cast away), I have to find out for myself. I have to try it. Maybe I will end up the same place where I am now – being an incarnated Rails follower – but in that case, I will be much more enlightened than the vast majority of Rails people, who is and have been blind followers of the Rails mantra. I feel I need to see how it is on the other side of the fence.
And who knows, I might actually learn from it. And even better: like it!
This, however, does not mean I’m giving up on Rails. I’m working on Rails side projects now, and will be in the future as well. I don’t even have to give up my mac either!