I am thrilled with my new job and the team I am on. I love my old team too, but the big appeal of the new job is the new stuff I get to learn every day. Since Thanksgiving I have had to quickly brush up on generic Linux skills and learn the strange nuances of Open SuSE 10.3 (our target Linux distribution). We also have earlier versions of Open SuSE and SLES, and a single RedHat server (which is more familiar to me). I also had to brush up on Solaris 10 because I’d stopped messing around with Sun systems somewhere between Solaris 6 and Solaris 8.
I’ve also been picking up WebLogic, JBoss, Terracotta, Memcached, Oracle, MySQL, Mac OS X Server, FreeBSD, and a handful of small SAN/Storage solutions. Every day brings new and interesting challenges, and the team is genuinely cooperative and we all share an enthusiasm for digging into the new pile of work we have. I confess I have been dodging Bacula (I still have a bad taste in my mouth from messing with tape management in the early 1990s). I am learning CommunigatePro and Mac OS X Mail Server, and confess I am more than a little impressed with OSX as a back office server solution. I miss daily coding in TCL (which is an awesome language), but feel more than compensated with all the other new technologies I can play with. I am also tinkering with PHP and a Facebook plugin for work (that’s not so common).
It has not been my intention to gloat, but just to share a little of the adventure I’ve embarked on. Hope you are all finding interesting challenges where you work.
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