Au Revoir To All That...
Feb. 1st, 2011 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI've made the announcement privately, but it's time to show it publicly: I've handed in my two-week notice at IndieFlix.
In the past year, I've helped push forward a lot of the state of the art in web APIs, mastered the intricacies of the Amazon AWS, Authorize.net and Constant Contact APIs, as well as more obscure ones from small PressOD CD distribution centers in the Americas and Europe. I've written graphics processing code (including the canonical "re-encode all of these films, stat!") using Python Boto, EC2 and S3, and developed time-restricted secure up/download from AWS for my employer. I've developed new and nifty ways of converting HTML documents to PDFs. I've written Ajax code for safe access to our movie streaming library, written two microsites with film access (indieflix.com/festivalsonline and mohai.indieflix.com), ported their blog to Wordpress, written two-way Twitter handlers, full-text search, and our Facebook application. My languages of choices have always been Python, Javascript, Bash, and C, but I still do C++, Ruby, and Perl as needed.
My new job will be at a company called Spiral, where I'll be writing mostly ECMA-quality javascript for a genetics engineering company. We'll be pushing the envelope of what's possible for a small team doing pure RIA/REST with a strong separation-of-concerns front-end. There's a little Django involved, I'll be writing their authentication and billing server as well, but for the most part it'll be a massive metric ton of front-end development. With the latest & greatest version of jQuery and its deferreds feature, it should be fun. (I'm also running the tests in Ruby, on a server written in Java.)
And the commute will be way easier.
In the past year, I've helped push forward a lot of the state of the art in web APIs, mastered the intricacies of the Amazon AWS, Authorize.net and Constant Contact APIs, as well as more obscure ones from small PressOD CD distribution centers in the Americas and Europe. I've written graphics processing code (including the canonical "re-encode all of these films, stat!") using Python Boto, EC2 and S3, and developed time-restricted secure up/download from AWS for my employer. I've developed new and nifty ways of converting HTML documents to PDFs. I've written Ajax code for safe access to our movie streaming library, written two microsites with film access (indieflix.com/festivalsonline and mohai.indieflix.com), ported their blog to Wordpress, written two-way Twitter handlers, full-text search, and our Facebook application. My languages of choices have always been Python, Javascript, Bash, and C, but I still do C++, Ruby, and Perl as needed.
My new job will be at a company called Spiral, where I'll be writing mostly ECMA-quality javascript for a genetics engineering company. We'll be pushing the envelope of what's possible for a small team doing pure RIA/REST with a strong separation-of-concerns front-end. There's a little Django involved, I'll be writing their authentication and billing server as well, but for the most part it'll be a massive metric ton of front-end development. With the latest & greatest version of jQuery and its deferreds feature, it should be fun. (I'm also running the tests in Ruby, on a server written in Java.)
And the commute will be way easier.
