Job update

My three months trial period is nearly up at the new job (not naming it this time, as the prez has a running search on the name and quickly picked up on my last post:), and I still like it a lot. It can be a bit hectic at times, especially when our sales people promise things that just don't fit well with our design, and require it be ready in a week. But I'm learning a lot of Javascript, Oracle SQL, and various frameworks. I'm finding I seem to be a faster coder than other people there, at least I've been the one to finish my tasks first (and not because they're small, I got handed the single largest enhancement in this release pretty much alone). And despite what the old-timers say, the database is not a horrid mess -- everything has well-defined keys and foreign keys following an understandable naming pattern. That alone makes it a lot easier to understand, and will help me a lot when I for the next release get to try my hand at JPA -- again, singlehandedly.