Possible job change
I interviewed for a new job today, with a small company called Codehouse. They use a product called Sitecore extensively, which is a Content Management System (CMS) and is entirely based on .NET. That means Visual Studio, C#, XML, WPF, and all that stuff.
It seemed like a really cool place to work. There are only nine employees plus five in their London office. They work in small teams on projects that typically take one or two months to complete. They are also right in the middle of Copenhagen — five minutes from my apartment by bike.
It’s a 100% programming position, and it’s been a long while since I’ve had a job like that. I’m excited about it. It would be nice to concentrate one technology and get create some tangible and functional solutions. I’ve been with Microsoft for over five years now, all of which has been in technical writing positions for developer products. It sounds good in theory. Write some cool samples, and then document how they work. But in practice it’s mostly busy-work that customers never see, and often don’t benefit from.
Right now they’re looking into getting my work-permit situation worked out. So we’ll see…