The Next Chapter

I'll be entering what I consider the next chapter of my career here at Obtiva when I move on-site on Monday. It's interesting to think that I just walked in the door nine months ago. I have learned a lot in that span. I came in as new college graduate whose primary language was basic Java (w/Swing) with a dabbling in C++ and C#. In nine months, I've added Ruby (on Rails), Perl (CGI), Objective-C, some Javascript, and an update to my HTML/CSS knowledge. I've also been learning practices to programming that were never really touched upon in my formal education. Which in some ways makes me wish that my college classes were structured differently so that maybe I would have learned some of these practices/languages before the start of my apprenticeship. At the same time though, I know that I've always learned best by doing, and I don't usually like to toot my own horn (except in the eleven years I played trumpet, yeah, I know, bad joke), but I've done a lot since I've arrived, and I'm excited to move forward when I trade my 3 minute walk to Studio (from the train station) for a 15-20 minute walk to the on-site client. Here's to the knowledge of the past, the vigilance of the present, and the challenges of the future. Cheers.