A week ago, I left Nautronix. Up and left. After 3 (or so) years, I decided to pack up my things and head elsewhere. Not just any elsewhere, though, I decided on an elsewhere that was closer to home, was going to pay me more money and was doing something new and exciting. That something is C#.

It was a hard one; deciding to leave a company that I’d grown rather fond of. It was my first job out of University and although I’m sure moving on is always a difficult prospect, I’m confident that the first time is the hardest.

Mostly, I’m going to miss the people. There was a lull a little while back where cultural factions started to form, but that totally evaporated when people started cross pollinating teams and by the time I had left it really seemed to be one big happy family again. One aspect that made that work, to my mind, was the big kitchen. There was enough room in that kitchen for maybe eight people to sit around a big rickety table and chat about whatever. Sometimes it was work related, but often it was just geek related. You know, Mythbusters, Family Guy, WoW, whatever. Other times, we would ask ourselves the big questions. And I mean the really big questions. Stuff like, is Ruby better than Perl? (yes) or do Exceptions have any place in a language like C++? (still don’t know). Yeah. Deep stuff.

Good times, good times. I’m sure I’ll be working with some of you guys again in the future, in Perth that’s practically inevitable, until then, I’ll try my darndest to stay in touch.