I’ve been fairly quiet recently in terms of posts, this is mainly because I’ve just resigned as Senior front-end developer at Sapient and accepted the post of “front-end specialist” at Nokia in Berlin.
From April 1st 2010 I will be working on the Ovi maps project. Ovi maps interests me for several reasons, firstly it’s got a massive user base and so is a chance to really get stuck into a application that’s just getting into it’s stride. There’s a great opportunity to start making small engineering changes that really a big difference in terms of performance and usability. It’s served to such a wide variety of different devices/platforms that I will get to see the realities of large mobile app development as well as hopefully bringing in some learned best practices from the web app world regarding CI and Continuous testing. I would also like to do some developer relations promotion, as before interviewing for the job I had no idea what Ovi maps was. Obviously now Ovi’s had a bit more PR but the developers remain relatively anonymous. Something I’d like to change given the quality of people working there.
I will be sad to leave Sapient, although it has it’s problems there a few really spectacular people there, whom I wish all the success for in the future and hope that some things begin to change.
All I have to do now, is figure out how to move my entire flat and life to another city, ekkk.