All Change

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

It’s been pretty quiet on the blogging front for a while now here, so I thought I’d do a bit of an update.

Last year I had been working at Econsultancy, rebuilding their website, which I blogged about when it was relaunched just before christmas.

About a week after the launch I was made redundant from there, essentially they had employed me in a permanent position for contract work and had no plans to keep me around after I had finished the site, which sucks, and to drop this news on me 3 days before christmas just compounded the suckage.

Since then I had been avoiding doing any kind of web development because I felt really quite despondent.

Then along came Rawnet

Last week I started a new job at Rawnet in Windsor, it’s quite a change from what I have been doing previously as rawnet is a full service digital agency, building websites for clients.

My role is a kind of all rounder; doing html, css, photoshop, ruby and rails. The team there are really friendly and have made me feel right at home, they build some awesome sites for some big name brands; AT&T Williams, Honda, Cable And Wireless and Canon.

It’s quite a different way of working from previous jobs I’ve done, going from seemingly never ending projects with incredibly vague specifications to a tightly run ship, each project is planned and specced out and then properly managed so everyone is always in the know, it’s taking a bit of getting used to but is an big improvement.

It’s also the first time I’ve had to do any sort of time tracking, using the website Tickspot, I’m using a desktop app called Timepost which integrates very nicely with tick, highly recommended if you have to do any time tracking.

I’m also driving to work every day as I’m still living in London and the office is in the centre of Windsor, which is a nice change. I found that commuting on the tube every day can be tiring and really demoralizing, especially on the crowded trains in the morning.

Going in the car costs a little more but it means I can listen to my own music in a nice air conditioned comfortable seat door to door and it takes about the same amount of time as travelling across London during the rush hour!

Reinvigorated

Now I’m back in the zone, I’m working on bumble to replace wordpress on teabass and give me a platform to mix in all my other web activities into one place, updating feeddit to add support for reddit, trying my hand at a little iPhone development when I get the time and teaching myself how to cook more complex things than heating a pizza in the oven.

3 Comments so far »

  1. Congrats on the new job! Also, can’t wait to see bumble when you get cracking on it.

    Robert Day on February 22, 2009 12:20 am

  2. Hey Andrew!

    Congratulations on the new job. We should meet up for a beer soon!
    Also if you fancy a spot of wakeboarding after work check out http://www.jbski.com it’s just down the road from you!

    Jason Green on February 26, 2009 9:26 am

  3. Shame about econsultancy. But congrats on Rawnet! Their offices above the High St (if they’re the same as the ones I visited a couple of years ago) are very sweet indeed.

    I’m living up the M25 in Herts, so am thinking of dragging myself out to a Refresh meetup at some point (Windsor/Maidenhead). Very almost moved to Windsor last year — it’s a really chilled out place (except the coaches of camera tourists in summer months!).

    Hope to see you around.

    Nick on March 10, 2009 7:21 pm


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