"new" work

Time to brag about my new working environment. As I mentioned in a previous post, my labour was sold to a third party like a Chinese worker. I get paid a cent and my tyrannical dictator gets a fortune. But that's all good once I get over the money issue because my new working environment is pretty cool :)

I'll be there from last Monday till the end of the year (finishing on Friday, 23rd December). It is three weeks of JSP and PHP (about 50/50 each). I get an awesome place with a fantastic view from the corner of 12th floor of the building on the corner of Rundle Mall and King William, which allows me to see all of Rundle Mall all day long as well as about half of the CBD. As far as cityscape goes, I haven't been in a place with a better view. Also as fate would have it, the room I'm in is supposed to have three people but at the moment is empty so I get an office for myself again (talking about being lucky with working environments). The people there are really nice too. They are really friendly and easy going. No stress and no pressure on performance or anything. They were really considerate while talking me through what they do and what needs to be done.

I also get to learn stuff. It's my first real experience with JSP. One of the two systems I'm working on (Merlin) is driven by OpenRoad (4th generation language) on the backend and JSP on the front end. So I get the joys of handling all the user interactions in Java and communicating them with the backend through COM objects. It's pretty interesting and took a day or so to get to feel comfortable as to what is going on and how things work, but now it all just works and is pretty easy to make extra stuff.

I haven't seen what the PHP stuff will be yet, but I have a feeling it will be easier so I'll get to cruise through the second half of that contract :)

All in all, I got lucky with this one and I like the opportunity to try different things and learn new languages. When you add to that being in the middle of everything and going shopping every day during lunch or on the way home, I feel pretty good at my new working place.

I'm planning on making some pictures from there and hopefully there will be a new entry on this. I just have to remember to bring my camera ...