A New Job and A New iPhone

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

There’s been quite a bit of changing going on for me in the past week or so, most for the better too.

Time for a change

So last week I decided to hand in my notice and leave Greenvoice. There were a number of reasons why I choose to leave including

  • I want to gain a wider range of experience to make me a better all round developer
  • I want to meet lots of new and interesting people that I can learn about all kinds of things from, especially people with experience in all things internet
  • I don’t wanting to stagnate, I’ve achieved a lot in a short amount of time and I want to keep my momentum going
  • At the moment there is a great market for rails developers, loads of demand and very little supply, I couldn’t turn down that opportunity

I’m having this week off as a holiday but then starting a brand new job in Clarkenwell at E-Consultancy on Monday as a Ruby on Rails developer.

Best Phone Ever!

16GB iPhone

I also snapped myself up a brand new 16GB iPhone, I’d been putting off buying one whilst I saved up enough money. I’ve very happy with it, using it as an ipod, phone and super lazy web browser when I can’t be bothered to get out of bed to check my RSS feeds!

I’ve not jailbroken it, didn’t see much need plus with the awesome SDK announcement today in a couple months time I’ll have all the best mac applications running on the iPhone anyway. I’ll practically be able to live on it!

In the mean time I’ve been searching out all the best iPhone web apps and adding them to my home screen, some of my favourites are:

I’m also working on an iPhone version of Tickets and Feeddit using the iUI library so look out for that.

6 Comments so far »

  1. all I can say about the iPhone is….”wow. How did I not have one for so long!!!”. Best thing I have purchased in ages.

    The SDK looks sexy too. Will download it when the network has calmed down a bit.

    Time to get my coding head back on.

    Tao on March 7, 2008 1:07 am

  2. The SDK is 2.1GB too!

    Yeah the iPhone is a lot more amazing than I thought it would be, it’s definitely a different experience when you have one for 24 hours, using a friends just isnt the same!

    Andrew on March 7, 2008 1:11 am

  3. Woop, nice one on the new job! I’m just up the road in Shoreditch now working for Airlock. Best of luck for Monday!

    Nick on March 7, 2008 1:27 pm

  4. Good move, gotta look out for number 1.

    Not so sure about the iPhone though. As hardware goes it’s great, but I still can’t get over the crappy contract.

    Stuart on March 10, 2008 2:25 pm

  5. Well done on the new job :) Always good to broaden your experience.

    I want an iphone, the camera is just putting me off as I use the one on my K850i so much…

    Henry on March 13, 2008 3:41 pm

  6. The camera is not too bad, but it’s no replacement for an actual camera, but it everything else it does makes it freakin’ awesome, google maps, mail, safari, ipod and video all in one device is very appealing to me.

    You can see some of the photos I’ve taken with it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nez/tags/iphone/

    Andrew on March 13, 2008 3:54 pm


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