It’s true – I am leaving the BBC! As of June 2nd, I’ll be a front-end developer at Nature.
The last three years at the BBC have been good ones. I think the quality of the output and massive range of products that have come out of the development teams has just been amazing. It feels like everyone I have had the pleasure of working with at the Beeb has been smart, engaged and really got the web and wanted to make cool things.
I’m certainly sad to be leaving. I’ll of course be missing the Glow Super Friends a lot, in particular, but I feel that I’ve made brilliant friends and connections in various corners of the company and there are many I hope to continue seeing a lot of and will no doubt get to work with again in the future. I leave knowing I’m going to miss everyone to pieces, but London really isn’t that big – so they won’t get rid of me too easily, even if I do have to stalk Vesbar.
But ever onwards – the season called for a change of scenery and getting a look at a whole new ecosystem of challenges. I think working at Nature will be great and I can’t wait to get stuck in. I only hope they’re ready for my special brand of optimism.
Sorry for the delay, but I finally got around to sticking my presentation from last month’s London Web Standards meet-up on slideshare. Slideshare is a bit naff to be honest, but it’ll do for now. If you click through to the talk on slideshare, you’ll be able to get my notes which should hopefully make the pictures more useful. Jake‘s busy syncing up both of our presentations to the videos so that we can show them on the BBC developer blog, so as soon as they’re available I’ll link those up too and you can view me in full hand-flapping, ranting form.
I think I speak for both of us when I say that we really enjoyed the evening – everyone was lovely and friendly and asked really excellent questions. Highly recommendable meet-up, and we’re both intending to try and make it to some of the future sessions.
Some useful links from my stuff:
Jake and I will be guests at March’s London Web Standards meetup. We’re giving a pair of JavaScript themed talks that should give plenty of fodder for the latter half of the evening’s discussion. I’m doing “Pro bun-fighting“, covering how we manage working on a large scale JavaScript project with a small team, our process, the performance and quality testing we do, and how to integrate group hugs, and Jake will be doing “The events left behind“, talking about the horrors of keyboard events, how to work around them and what’s their future.
Although it’s not a Glow specific talk, we will be using Glow in our examples, so feel free to come along and talk to us about the library too, if you’re interested.
Tickets are available now for the event on Wednesday 31st March at The Square Pig in London.
