Dread Pirate PJ’s House of Hacks and Tricks

Bringin’ in da dough, baby!

by dreadpiratepj on Feb.20, 2007, under hacks, life, open.source, rails, ruby, software.development, system.architecture, web.architecture, web.services, web.technologies

Last Wednesday, I sent emails and résumés for various job posts, and by that afternoon, I started getting nibbles. It was weird! Whereas I barely got any attention for over a dozen job applications I sent out between September and early February, I suddenly had five companies interested in me in a matter of hours! Maybe companies were waiting for post-holiday economy reports to start hiring? I wonder.

So to cut to the chase, I got a great hourly-pay remote development gig working on a Ruby on Rails project, on a really cool sounding website, for a very-high-profile vehicle racing company in the UK. It’s right down Ken’s alley, but if I’m not mistaken, this sport usually has a definitely more European racing audience. I think American racing fans like Ken, might resent these are not American cars, and just don’t watch. LOL

I cannot disclose any more information because of client confidentiality, but I think I may already have said too much. :-p

I’ll post a link here when the site goes up, at any rate. Only then can we drop all this silly NDA crap. It’s a bummer, because I can’t discuss application architecture specifics that would be of interest to my readers.

But fret not. There’s no rule about my discussing the project’s architecture in general. I just can’t say right out what architecture I’m dealing with on this gig.

I’ll be writing more about Rails in the weeks ahead, but just cuz I write about it, don’t mean it’s got a thing to do with work, you hear? :: rolls eyes ::

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1 comment for this entry:
  1. Ken Nelson

    Man, my TWAC-ness is going down the tubes. I read this weeks ago, and meant to be-bop out here and convey my congrats.

    But, being a humble sysadmin, I’ve been patching systems for the DST change, standing up Linux systems like an assembly line, and trying to keep SWMBO from breaking us on household improvements ;)

    Anyhow, glad to hear about the gig, and lookin; forward to seeing it live.

    -k-

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