I’ve recently got my foot in with a London based photography firm who need a few error fixes done to their web site and the application behind it. I’ve always wanted to start getting a little bit of work on the side, and this might be a good oppurtunity to knuckle down and start doing it. At the moment its only twenty or so hours work, but it should help with rent and bills moving into the new house and Christmas coming up as well.
Having started on the work tonight and getting a good look at the inner workings of the site, I was shocked to see that I’d possibly just landed work which suffered from the same few issues that I’ve been battling for the last six months at my job. It’s much, make that loads, better than the original state of the work at the office, and I’m thankful for that, but the spaghetti mess (albeit a neat mess) is not my best idea of a good code base to work around, and build upon. I’ve got to get involved in a big enterprisey application at some stage and really learn something, that would be a good move toward improving my work/career.
Baby steps Shannon, baby steps.
