It’s been two weeks since I posted, which is a bit embarassing. I’ve been pretty busy with the new job, though, and generally sticking to Twitter to get the word out about how I’m doing.
The quick version is: the Project Kenai team is turning out to be just about as good a group to work with as I could hope for. We’ve got enough to do to keep things from getting boring, but it’s the good kind of work: interesting + challenging, but nothing that feels like a death march. Plus, every time I fire up an editor to look at a new piece of code and see the GPL license in the header comments, I feel a little better about the company as a whole. Being somewhere that open source is the default (rather than a special case for which you have to lobby) is a pretty cool feeling for a OSS nerd like me.
Otherwise, things are pretty normal. As my family and friends all give in to the gravitational pull of SE Portland, I also find that my social life is less and less about going out, and more about staying in for social meals + conversation, which suits me just fine, especially in the winter.
That’s it for now. Expect more on the technical side of the work I’m doing after Christmas, when I have some time to write up my impressions of doing JRuby on Rails, and working in a heterogenous Solaris/Linux/OS X environment.