For the past 4 years (near enough) I’ve had the privilege to work with a boutique web design and development firm here in Jersey.
And after 4 years it’s time to move on. Friday the 9th March is my last day at BlueBox Creative.
When I joined, back in March 2009, I was coming from a very different environment – I’d been working as a developer for a managed services provider and had done very little classic web dev during that time. I also knew nothing about ColdFusion (above and beyond the fact of its existence) and hadn’t worked in a local client facing environment for 5 years.
The BlueBox team were making already waves in Jersey! By the time I arrived they’d netted two CIM awards and had a range of impressive local clients. I had the honour of working with them to take the company through the next phase of its life!
During my time I had the opportunity to work on a range of projects and to work with the cutting edge in web technology. My job didn’t just mean a new set of work mates & clients but introduced me to a whole new community of very cool people by way of ColdFusion, CFML, and Railo.
My new role is just as exciting! I’ll be joining the Quidsin team to head up their systems development which will mean new challenges, different technologies and a new platform to take forward.
Yes, I’ll be heading back to PHP development for a while but the instant I can make a business case for CFML I will. And I hope my fellow CF devs won’t shun me just because of an outbreak of semicolons & braces.
It will be with sadness that I shut down my PC for the last time on the 9th but with a hint of pride in knowing that I’ve been a part of some of the best web projects undertaken in the island over the last few years.
And now it’s time to move – onwards and upwards.
