After over a year away from them, I'm busy at my new job in Glasgow with Dell (you know, they make the big black computers) as a Senior Dev Lead (I think, titles are still a bit mixed up). Loving being back working with a team; though I've spent most of my time sniping from the sidelines...the beginnings of my influencing the future direction our application takes. This is a bit of a departure for me, I'm used to developing very high scale and performance apps for internet use, but this one has a more limited audience (so far!) ....
Promising to do this for a while. I only really like to post about new stuff..others can cover old stuff in detail. Right now I'm learning: FubuMVC: a kind of super flexible, advanced version of an ASP.NET MVC framework. Has proven challenging to learn but really worthwhile. RavenDB: fantastic, document oriented database. Fits in really well with web development but has some unique challenges. JQuery: far from new, but building lovely UIs with it, REALLY improving my general Javascript dev skills (a lot thanks to this book). ...