It’s all about… Me.
April 27, 2007 - 5:49 pm
Hehe, I love these article titles.
Anyway, a bit of an update – although not much has really happened since my last update (how boring).
Lets see, since last June, I have…
- Been a software developer at Trade Me for almost a year (woohoo!) – AND – I haven’t even broken anything yet… heheh… phew
- Worked on several big projects at Trade Me – namely helping develop the new look and feel of our DVD section (for which I wrote a cool google-suggest style AJAX enabled search but unfortunately you have to be a member of Trade Me to see this), adding support for rural and commercial properties in Trade Me Property (for which I was project lead! Oohh yeah!), and lots of other cool stuff…
- Re-designed and totally over-hauled Travelblog – now it does cool stuff like geocode cities that you visit on the fly and allows comments to be posted!
- Been on an awesome 5-week holiday to Europe, San Francisco and Tokyo with Chris – check it out at the “Travelblog”:http://travelblog.mindtrip.co.nz…
- Been to Noosa for a bit of fun in the warm ocean…
- Done a bit of web development contracting work on the side…
- Found out that two or more jobs at once doesn’t leave much time for watching TV…
- Tested out my interviewing skills by performing 6 technical tests on some developers wanting to work at Trade Me… it’s weird being on this end of the interview…
- OH and how can I forget… I interviewed for a Software Engineer in Test position at Google AGAIN, but this time in person and in Zurich. Oh, and I didn’t get the job. Again. But you can read all about that here if you’re interested, of course…
... and I think that’s about it really.
Next in the to-do list is…
- Studying for and hopefully doing some form of Microsoft Certification – I think it’s called Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
- Doing a bit more work on Travelblog so that I can maybe even make it public
- Working on Chris’ and my new little project… (which is top-secret at the moment so will post about it when a bit closer to it’s go-live date)
- Plan another looooooooong holiday somewhere, perhaps Asia this time
Yeah. That’s about it.