Plans for 2009
I think that a post is due, and the time of the year couldn’t be better.
Personal News
Well, a lot has changed in my life in 2008. Usually I don’t give personal details about my life here in my blog, since I tend to use this space for my tech ramblings.
I want to take a moment to talk about my amazing job at ThoughtWorks. I left the company this December. I stayed there only for an year and still I’ll always remember what a great company it is. If you live in one of the countries where they are and you think you’re up for the job go for it. They rock!
Why did I leave then? Because me and my wife had a very hard time in London. We missed home a lot, our families, friends…
I´m back in Brazil now (in sunny Rio de Janeiro). Still unemployed, which means that now is the time for your company to get a new agile tech lead / developer. I´m eager to work with .Net as well as new technologies and would love to share the expertise I got in my experience in the UK with ThoughtWorks with my new employer.
Stormwind
I haven’t been THE most active committer in Stormwind right now, since I just moved continents, so a lot to do. I think I got most of the stuff figured out now, so I’ll probably restart coding soon.
Some updates:
Stormwind.Accuracy – This is one of the most rewarding endeavors I’ve ever been in. A great project, amazing results using it in our last project. The codebase has evolved A LOT and our last release is completely production ready. If you need or would like to know a more on how to easily write acceptance tests that are not brittle, just check this project.
Stormwind.PowerFixtures - I´ve been using this in some tests to generate test data and I´ve grown quite fond of it. I have plans of expanding this. It already supports data persistence for test data generation.
Stormwind.Accord – Following my last post, I need to get a project going so people can start to contribute and use it. The idea behind this project was very well received by the people I spoke to. I got a lot of feedback and plan on incorporating that.
Stormwind Website – I know, I know. Our website needs to improve drastically. I decided to throw away the whole portal idea and stick to a simple website that I can update as needed. I´m still thorn between a static or dynamic website. We´ll see. But things will change.
Personal Projects
My first and by far the largest project is the book I´m writing on reducing friction in software projects. The first chapter is behind me, even though there are (at least) ten chapters on the way. I’ll keep updating this project here in the blog.
The other is some articles for magazines I’m trying to get done. This is very good in that it forces me to think about work. To find patterns and anti-patterns and to write about them. Or just demo some nice technology. Or showcase some cool project. You know, the works.
Conclusion
The conclusion is that 2009 is coming, it’s going to be great and it’s going to be huge.
If you own or work in a company in Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo, Brazil and need an agile tech lead for .Net technologies (or any other interesting one that I can learn), just let me know! Leave a comment here with your e-mail or e-mail me at heynemann at gmail.
Hope to hear some good news soon!