Well, JB, alls fair in love and contracting as they say....
Im just into the second week of my gig and although the travelling is nasty - up at 6.50am, back about 8pm, Im actually enjoying the project. Its basically me and one other .Net guy establishing a framework for less experienced developers to work within for the largest local government agency in Scotland, and Im acting more as a Technical Architect that a developer I suppose... Basically Ive designed and built a v nice wizard engine for .Net 1.1 thats more flexible than the wizard control in .Net 2, rewrote the navigation UI to be a composite of self-configuring tabs and breadcrumbs, implemented a caching strategy and agreed a security framework. Not bad for the first 6 days including getting logins sorted, reading documentation and attending meetings.
Nice people, no permie / contractor divide, and when they found out id been screwed by MSB who didnt tell me all contractors are on enforced holiday between the 16th and 9th over christmas, my PM has put the wheels in motion to get me some extra work on the QT, either at home or on site if he is in.
Trouble is I have two major banks looking for someone to start before christmas.... sigh....
P.S, good luck in the job, JB....
Im just into the second week of my gig and although the travelling is nasty - up at 6.50am, back about 8pm, Im actually enjoying the project. Its basically me and one other .Net guy establishing a framework for less experienced developers to work within for the largest local government agency in Scotland, and Im acting more as a Technical Architect that a developer I suppose... Basically Ive designed and built a v nice wizard engine for .Net 1.1 thats more flexible than the wizard control in .Net 2, rewrote the navigation UI to be a composite of self-configuring tabs and breadcrumbs, implemented a caching strategy and agreed a security framework. Not bad for the first 6 days including getting logins sorted, reading documentation and attending meetings.
Nice people, no permie / contractor divide, and when they found out id been screwed by MSB who didnt tell me all contractors are on enforced holiday between the 16th and 9th over christmas, my PM has put the wheels in motion to get me some extra work on the QT, either at home or on site if he is in.
Trouble is I have two major banks looking for someone to start before christmas.... sigh....
P.S, good luck in the job, JB....
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