Monday 1 February 2010

Finally Employed

Well, it happened. Seven months after graduating university I've secured myself a web programming job using a variety of new technologies and development methodologies. I've only previously read about most of these, e.g. Agile, Groovy, Spring/Hibernate - which I told them in the interview, and was told that they weren't looking for someone with previous experience.

Now, I have 2 weeks until I start to learn as much about these things as I can just to get a nice head start into development, and make my first few weeks a little easier because I won't be starting from scratch.

Obviously this means that time spent to develop on Whyteboard will become limited; working full-time as a programmer, I may not *want* to program much in my spare time. But who knows, I do enjoy development and I'm definitely not putting the project on hold. Progress will continue, but slowly.

Goals: release Whyteboard 0.39.4 in the next 2 weeks. Learn Groovy, Grails and spend some time unit testing Whyteboard more.