Reactivation
After a long silence, I decided to reactivate this blog. A lot of things happened in last few months.
First, I moved to a new home. I had to leave my previous place in September, as I wanted to lease it to students. So I did some renovation and moved temporarily to my in-laws, and some time later I received keys to my new home. I was working on it till February, and only two weeks ago I moved in and set up an internet connection. Can you say: five months without Internet? OK, I had the connection at my workplace, but it is not the same. So: no internet connection, all the time invested into painting, flooring, cleaning and doing 1257 other things... but no time nor determination to blog. It will change.
Second, I started looking for a new job. <RANT>You know, I am a developer. .NET developer exactly. If you employed .NET developer and gave him a senior position - what tasks would you give him? Something .NET and development oriented probably? Would you? It appears that it is not so common... For some organizations that .NET developer is the best person to do SAP and J2EE... evaluation. Yeah, not even development - product evaluation. For example: Michal, here is some product... called SAP Enterprise Portal... can you install this and check what can be done with that and if it is the right product to manage 30TB documents a year? After some months of such tasks, I have enough. I want to code. I want to work at a team which does SOMETHING USEFUL. That company is such a disappointment for me.</RANT>
So, I started looking for a new job. I almost got one at
InnerWorkings - but we couldn't agree on some details. Basically it was my fault, because I didn't listen to my recruiter's suggestions about salary and came out with much higher requirements. So it is a bit of advice: your recruiter is your friend. She wants you to succeed and she wants the company to succeed - basicaly, to make both parties happy. Listen to what she says.
The position involved relocation from Poland to Ireland and I was afraid that I won't be able to start there with my family, so I made my expectations a bit to high. As I see it now it was a mistake - the guys at InnerWorkings are doing amazing things, it is definitely worth looking at. I think that it is e-learning taken to a whole next level. They're teaching developers how to create enterprise-level applications. Awesome stuff.
At the moment I am still in Poland and I think I finaly found the place I want to work at, and hey, it is even in my city! So, if everything goes well, no relocation. That's great. More on that when I finish the negotiations ;)
What else? I am starting a .NET Users Group. I think that the process of launching such group can be interesting, so I'll write a bit more about it in following posts.