I’m excited to say that I started a new job last week at Puppet Labs. This means I’m back to working with Ruby code (I don’t think I’ll miss Perl much), not going to be doing much web development and pumped to be working on an open source project. The development team is small and really smart, and it’s fascinating to see how things operate in a startup company that’s based on a widely used, mature code base with a lot of community involvement.
There’s a lot of new things to learn, and finally working on a Mac and retraining my fingers on where the control key is may be one of the hardest. Just kidding, although that has been more of my brain power this last week than I’d like. Some of the cool new areas I’m looking forward to exploring in Puppet include parsers (Puppet has it’s own language), client server models other than with a web browser and working with directed graphs (finally going to get a chance to use all that graph math from college).
I’ll miss my coworkers at Rentrak and wish them luck with their code. I’ll be going to Open Source Bridge next week, so I’ll see some of them there I assume.
Glad to hear you’re enjoying the new job! I’m going to be spending a lot of time at OSB next week. Have you marked the ones you’re planning to attend on the OSB site? Let me know if you’re planning on attending any of these: http://opensourcebridge.org/users/610/favorites
I haven’t marked anything yet (the only thing I know for sure I’m going to is the puppet talk on Thursday) as I just got registered on Thursday, but when I do it’ll be at http://opensourcebridge.org/users/652/favorites. I’ll let you know if I see schedule overlap.
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Congrats Matt… glad to see your career continuing to blossom… PuppetLabs will definitely benefit from your involvement… enjoy the ride!