Papa's Got a Brand New Gig

I will be starting a new job on November 16th, under the employ of Sierra Management and Technologies, Inc.   The position is is for a senior/lead ColdFusion developer working on a project I can't talk about, or I will have to shoot both of us!

I am excited about the opportunity, and sad that I am having to leave KR Systems.  The people there are fantastic, and Gail and Dave Kelley are some of the most gracious folks I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. I will always treasure my memories of working there.

The new position with Sierra offers a lot of opportunity to be involved in a very high visibility program, and I will work as part of a development team for only the second time in my career.  I am moving out of my home office for the first time in 12 years. Whew!

While I don't know many of the specifics of the projects involved yet, I do know we will be using ColdFusion MX 6.1 running Fusebox 4.1.   I was originally told we were using version 5, but I later spoke to the developer I am replacing and he confirmed it is FB 4.1, although I am not sure whether they are using MVC or not.    I have never been a fan of Fusebox as an individual developer ; I always felt there was too much complexity for little return.   But I am vowing to keep an open mind here.  A lot of very highly respected developers/teams use Fusebox and it is prevalent in the Federal Government

So I have started woodshedding to begin coming up to speed. It will be a challenge, but a welcome one. I was starting to get slightly complacent and it will be nice to shake things up again.