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Onwards and Upwards

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For the past 4 years (near enough) I’ve had the privilege to work with a boutique web design and development firm here in Jersey.

And after 4 years it’s time to move on. Friday the 9th March is my last day at BlueBox Creative.

When I joined, back in March 2009, I was coming from a very different environment – I’d been working as a developer for a managed services provider and had done very little classic web dev during that time. I also knew nothing about ColdFusion (above and beyond the fact of its existence) and hadn’t worked in a local client facing environment for 5 years.

The BlueBox team were making already waves in Jersey! By the time I arrived they’d  netted two CIM awards and had a range of impressive local clients. I had the honour of working with them to take the company through the next phase of its life!

During my time I had the opportunity to work on a range of projects and to work with the cutting edge in web technology. My job didn’t just mean a new set of work mates & clients but introduced me to a whole new community of very cool people by way of ColdFusion, CFML, and Railo.

My new role is just as exciting! I’ll be joining the Quidsin team to head up their systems development which will mean new challenges, different technologies and a new platform to take forward.

Yes, I’ll be heading back to PHP development for a while but the instant I can make a business case for CFML I will. And I hope my fellow CF devs won’t shun me just because of an outbreak of semicolons & braces.

It will be with sadness that I shut down my PC for the last time on the 9th  but with a hint of pride in knowing that I’ve been a part of some of the best web projects undertaken in the island over the last few years.

And now it’s time to move – onwards and upwards.

Re-jig and consolidation

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Haha!

The eagled eyed amongst you will notice that mon blog(s) has / have moved … again.

After a quick play with Posterous (which was nice) I’ve decided to back track on the whole separation of concerns idea and have moved absolutely everything (and I mean everything) onto a single WordPress.com hosted blog.

This means that:

  1. Both the personal and techy stuff are now back under one roof
  2. All old domains (xset, robdudley, rubicon and even drytherain) are pointing at said roof
  3. The archives (which stretch back to August 2003) are restored
  4. Everything should fly along at super speed

Why? Simply enough I didn’t want to lose all the archived posts. Some of them are just plain funny and deserve a place on the web to live happily ever after. I wasn’t very happy with the Posterous editor (no spell check? really???).

A couple of posts may have fallen through the cracks (hey! you try restoring 1600 posts from various DB backups and hosted services) but pretty much everything looks boat shaped and Bristolian.

Oh and I will be customising the theme in a bit … just as soon as I have 5 mins more to go through my photos and select some good header images.

TTFN

Rob

The right tools for the job

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The GGF (technically now just the GF) and I have completed our 3rd house move in 3 years and, as ever with a move we found that our current complement of furniture was insufficient to store all of our stuff.

Fortunately, a quick trip to B&Q yielded results in the form of a Danish flat pack wardrobe which matches some of the other bits we have in the bedroom. As an added bonus it was reduced from £60 to £30 so we snapped it up, manhandled it to the car and promptly stashed it in the garage pending assembly at a later date.

A couple of days later when the cottage was starting to resemble a place that people actually live in rather than a cardboard box testing factory the GF and I lugged the wardrobe to the top of the stairs and, in keeping with our desire to stay together, happy and free of a murder conviction, she headed downstairs to sort the kitchen whilst I opened the box and settled in for an hour or so of building.

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