Back from the Dead

I used to get random emails asking when Johnny Coder was going to start blogging again. Well, I guess I knew I had been away too long when people stopped asking me where I was…

Over the past few months, I shifted directions. I left a 60+ hour/week lead/management consulting gig and have since taken on a full-time developer position.  What does this mean?  Well, it means I now spend roughly 40 hours each week writing code rather than watching over folks who write code. In other words, now I’m sharing in the fun which is something I haven’t done in years.  With any luck, I’m still good at it.  Having fun, that is.

Now, I didn’t jump into the fun right away.  After leaving my last contract, I took a sabbatical of sorts.  I worked out, ate well, drank beer at lunch and more than occasionally sat by the pool and read lots and lots. I didn’t only read technical things though having not been on the interviewee-side of an interview in quite some time, I found myself shying away from fiction.

Since I am re-learning a bit, I suspect the posts to come won’t be today’s news.  In the not-too-distant past, I was overly concerned with posting something which was already said or (even worse) something which made me seem out of the loop. Well, I’ve since abandoned that idea — probably at the pool. With any luck, I will continue to write about things which make you feel smarter. 

Thanks for waiting…