Just switched from WordPress to a static blogging platform called Octopress. Kind of taking the opposite direction from last year when I was loving WordPress more.

Stumbled upon Tamer Saleh’s (VP Engineering of Engine Yard) post: Jobs are temporary, teams are for life - which I found worth reading. If I were in a management/leadership position, that’s how I would see my developers - by helping them reaching their long term goals.

Although strictly speaking, I am not in working in a cubicle, but rather sharing a small room with the senior developer here.

Now some pictures.

And so I have been working at the new work place for about a month now - which located quite far away from where I live.

Roughly 2 weeks ago I finished up my time with the young (as in the average age of the employees) and funky digital agency - Gruden. I can’t believe it had been 1 year and 10 months.

And I have done it - on my 5th RORO meeting this year - I gave a lighting talk!

I have been doing some thinking on the “perfect” place to work - perfect (or closest to) according to me anyway.

A couple of weeks ago, I was given a couple of programming tasks to complete.

When I looked at the tasks’ description - I realised Test Driven Development (TDD would be a good fit to approach them. Another plus for me is, I have never used TDD before - although I have been reading and hearing it quite a lot, so it is a good opportunity to give it a try.

As you may recall (speaking as if I have regular visitors) - about a month ago I decided to adding features to dailymile-ruby library. As expected - working on it, has helped me in my Ruby learning journey.

I have been asked that question and have asked the question myself a couple of times. There are so many different technologies that I can choose to complement my current skill set, why Ruby?

Well, I came across an interview from EngineYard blog recently - Chicks That Rip: Ines Sombra.

Ines’ answer is almost exactly word for word of my own answer to the question:

What attracted me most to the Ruby on Rails community is how bold it is. This community is not afraid to experiment and innovate. What I find especially interesting is the prevalence of polyglot systems and cutting-edge data store solutions. Databases are put to the test in Ruby on Rails, and these applications are defining the future of how systems will be constructed. It’s amazing. …

The community, the rate of innovation and polyglot systems - this gets the geek in me excited.