Blog /Reinvent--; DonatGroup++

January 31, 2008 05:14 +0000  |  Drupal Employment Perl Reinvent Work [at] Play 8

Those of you who aren't privy to my less-than-public posts, you might wonder what the heck happened to Reinvent and why I'm suddenly talking about The Donat Group. Obviously, it's probably a Bad Idea to talk about the nuts and bolts of it all publically, but here's the gist in my generation's favourite format: point form.

  • Reinvent is a fun company with lots of smart people
  • It's also run by management that feels that expanding their business into Software patents makes for an acceptable business model.
  • I disagreed. I've worked for a lot of companies who did things I felt were Not Good, but there are a few things I won't do... supporting software patents is one of them.
  • So I went looking for a company whose morals where more in tune with my own and I found one in The Donat Group.
  • I handed in my resignation, offered to work 2weeks before I left and they declined. I guess the brass weren't happy with me.
  • I started at Donat today and they seem pretty cool. Very dot.com startup-like but with actual paying clients.
  • They like Drupal though, which from what I've seen, is really not good. My first impressions of Drupal is that it's a bunch of non-programmers pretending that they can write real software. Function and variable names bleeding into everything else, no objects, and horror of all horrors: their coding standard requires a two-space indent.

I made a work around for the back-assward indenting thing though. I call it undrupal. Basically it uses a regular expression to strip out the space-based indents and replace them with tabs. Then you can write your code in a sane environment, then use the same script to re-crazy it with spaces again.

Ok, so my first day didn't exactly have me neck-deep in super-advanced code, but hey, it's the first day. I'm really looking forward to this job though, the boss is pretty cool and his politics are more in line with my own, and even more fun is the fact that I'm now labled "Senior Developer" and I'll be able to actually head up new projects and such.

That's it for me now. If you want more details, just gimme a call.

Comments

val
31 Jan 2008, 1 p.m.  | 

psst... would you give me an account please, Dan?

(the e-mail address to use, in case you don't have it, is in firstname@lastname.ca format)

Colin Sun
31 Jan 2008, 3:37 p.m.  | 

Congrat's on your new job, knew you'd land on your feet. :)

Daniel
31 Jan 2008, 5:54 p.m.  | 

Val, of course I remember your email -- it's one of the easiest to remember :-P Your account is setup and the details are in your email.

noreen
31 Jan 2008, 10:52 p.m.  | 

good stuff! congrats on new job! where is this one located?

Daniel
31 Jan 2008, 11:29 p.m.  | 

Kinda far actually, roughly 40min walk from my place. It's close to the lower east side and Chinatown

Janine Sebastian
1 Feb 2008, 3:12 a.m.  | 

So now you have that excuse to use your bike?
*g*

Congrats on the job, hopefully this one will go much better.

PS
I just talked to my aunt, and they got Wii and are leaving it behind for me to play as I house-sit for the next 2 months!!!! Yippeeee!
(yeah, odd things make me giddy!)

theresa
2 Feb 2008, 12:39 p.m.  | 

yay for you! that's awesome. and "senior developer" sounds all nice and fancy...

Lara
2 Feb 2008, 3:10 p.m.  | 

Congrats on busting out and finding something new so quickly. Hope this one works out better for you.

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