One thing I like about people who love what they do is that they usually don’t take themselves too seriously. They can smile and joke about the things they passionately love. Today I came across an example from Foursquare. In the Settings screen about the notifications that Foursquare sends to you, there is an option to “Also include an adorable picture of a puppy in my weekly update“. Here is a screenshot in case this will disappear with time.
For the last few month I’ve been consulting Easy Forex on one of their migration projects. Recently, when the consulting contract ran out, I’ve been offered a full time position of web developer and team leader. I’ve accepted that position and today all the paperwork has been finalized.
I’m looking forward to working with the young and enthusiastic team, and getting my hands into a few more project pies. My job is an interesting mixture of things I’ve done before, things that I’ve done before but not to the same extent, and things that I haven’t done before. For my career, it’s a rare combination of hard earned confidence with a humbling opportunity to learn. Much more often I had either one or the other.
In addition to all the upcoming technical challenges, there is something else that I want to understand and learn – company culture. As I’ve mentioned a few times previously, Easy Forex has the friendliest office atmosphere of all the companies that I’ve worked for – and I’ve worked in some really friendly environments, cause I’m picky that way – especially considering the size of the company. I want to understand how Easy Forex managed to keep and improve the attitude of a small company, and how one could re-create such culture in other companies.
With that, wish luck and I’ll keep you posted.
If you’ve missed it like I did, RFC 6885 has been published recently. It introduces four additional status codes for the HTTP protocol. The codes are:
Here is a blog post that gives a nice summary of purpose for each of the new status codes.
Got myself some new shoes … just kidding.
