caseydk's Journal: So this job....

I've been at my new job now for about 3.5 months. We're in between a asp to .Net conversion and it pretty much sucks.

The lead .Net developer has finally seen the error of his ways and agrees that Visual Source Safe (VSS) is a raging piece of dog poo. I'm trying to get him to try out Subversion or TortiseCVS as I beleive they both offer VS.Net intergration. I know TortiseCVS does already... we'll see what happens.

So anyway, I have the potential of starting some independent development within the company doing some Java on a pc104 device that I may be designing. It's exciting as the off the shelf equivalent would be something like $50k initially and another couple hundred/device/month. My early eastimates show that it could be as little as $25k initially and $25/device/month.

This might be the project that moves me from a "mid level developer who gets assigned various pseudo-crap projects" into the more advanced areas coming up. Plus it may be the deciding factor to push things from a huge .Net deployment into some Java/jsp beta testing.

Muhahaha.