New location, new job.
New Location
I moved out to Bothell, WA (Near Seattle, just north of Redmond) in the middle of May and I started a new job on May 31st. It's been an incredible experience for me. I have finally left my parent's place and gotten an apartment all to myself. There are so many cool places out here. It's going to take me a long time to find and visit all of them.
New Job
I'm working for Vertafore which writes software for the insurance industry. I joined their PolicyIssuance team. This is worlds away from the jobs I had in Green Bay, WI. The PolicyIssuance team is incredible. In my first week I was part of a code review which looked at some new features being worked on. I was very critical of the code, especially for not knowing the code base well. Everyone took my comments well during the meeting and this last week I got to see the updated code and the developer had taken my suggestions to heart. The code was abstracted in a proper manner. It's just amazing that someone would listen to me when I'm so new and inexperienced. How many people will listen to someone that just jumped in three days ago? I have hopes that I'll be able to stay with this company for a few years or even longer. I've needed time and room to mature after graduating from college and I think I'll be given both there.
Update on singleforest
I'm working on version two of the site which will be based on rails 3.1. The current version has some hacks that rails 3.1 fixes. There are also deep design flaws with the way the controllers are setup in to five separate namespaces requiring enormous code duplication which I thought was necessary months ago.
