June 14, 2011 at 9:10 PM
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RampidByter
First post in a while.
Here is a little catch up on where I’ve been.
Full-time Work Life
My contract ended after seven months of working for a celebrity owned financial services company. I liked the people so much, and the small office environment that it changed my heart on never working as a full-timer again. They extended an offer even though I had been very adamant about remaining a consultant, and I surprisingly accepted. I’ve been there for over nine months total now, and still enjoying what I’m doing.
MacBook Development Machine
MacBook Air as a development machine has been a lot of headaches. Only within the last two weeks have things stopped kernel panicing on a bi-weekly basis. I think the latest Parallels 6 update combined with continual Mac OS updates fixed the problem. Knocking on wood. Still absolutely love the hardware. To this day I still only use one monitor and no other external peripherals.
Windows Phone 7 Development
Windows Phone 7 development has been a headache. I frankly got fed up and bailed off the platform. Mango was just released recently. The only problem is Visual Studio Service Pack 1 will not install on my VM. No VS SP1, no mango.
Android Development
After getting fed up with Windows Phone 7 I started looking at Android. Another consultant with whom I work with on a daily basis happened to be a very big Android fan. Having become a moderately advanced developer on the platform over the past year he’s ended up showing me the ropes. I ended up catching the bug, and have recently purchased an Eee Transformer (as of last week) that has become my new learning project. Still think Java is outdated.
Mobile Development
Within the past six months or so I’ve become very versed in mobile development and platforms. In particular the ‘early’ adoption of the jQuery Mobile library. I plan to write a few ongoing blog posts about jQuery Mobile to help spare others the same ‘early’ adoption headaches.
I’m hoping to set aside some time each week to catch up more on my blogging. We’ll see. Till then just know MVC 3 rocks. For now I’m off to play Duke Nukem Forever.
-R