I've delayed a little in writing this post, can I pretend I was getting Christmas out of the way?

I recently left my previous role and joined... well nobody really. As much as I am happy to say I've finally get my own company off the ground, it's not yet gone quite far enough. Following a major re-organisation and re-branding operation (maybe not), my company is now in consultancy. My first contract is at Nomura.

So far this is great, flexible working hours ("we only care that you do your forty hours"), half the team is in headphones, and nobody has more than one meeting per day. The technology here is varied, its all MS, but some of the applications are still in ASP-VB6. Some are bang up to date with DotNet3.5 using Linq. None seem to be massively parallel, but I have found a race condition already. Which brings me to a post I'll write up in the next couple of days. I expect to see an return to the previous rate of posts on here, and I will hopefully have a little more time to kepp up with everybody else in the industry.

What I will say however is that am really glad that I did my time at my previous employer and really enjoyed some of the challenges. I would definitely do it again, but not with my insane commute on top, I'd want the opportunity to compete with my colleagues on a level footing.