From early September, I’m going to be leaving the excellent GSBA, where I’ve spent the last four years wrangling code deep in the bowels of the likes of Magento, MODX, Drupal and OpenCart. GSBA is growing rapidly and has an exciting future, but I have my eye on other prizes. More than anything, I want to build something for myself – and that means leaving the stability of full-time employment and venturing into the lesser-known realms of entrepreneurship and self-employment.
This will give me a great chance to spend more time with new technologies. Agency life often doesn’t provide much time to get properly to grips with new languages or skills, unless they are already in use within the agency. I’m looking forward to spending more time with Python, node.js, SQLite and other technologies that, so far, I’ve really just dipped a toe into.
Even more exciting, this move offers the potential for me to spend more time working on my own projects. Cheatography and Envoy have been running for a while but lacking the attention they deserve. Newer projects, on which I’ll write more shortly, have also suffered from a lack of available time. This decision should allow me to turn more of the ideas floating around my head into actual working websites, with a view to then becoming profitable ventures.
If you’re reading this on the site, you might have spotted a few changes here as well – a new logo, new homepage and new portfolio being the most significant changes, all geared towards making a more prominent feature of my services and previous work.
To begin with, though, my focus is on making sure I have an income that can comfortably provide for myself and my growing family. So I’ll be taking on freelance projects and focussing on the things I know best and that I’ve spent the last few years with – PHP development (especially Magento, MODX and Drupal).
I’m enthusiastic, capable and, in a few short weeks, available for your project!
