David J Rice

I had my first day at Front last thursday, and I am finally happy to have a kick-ass, motivating and creative job. I have always held the studio in high regard, and have thought of it as the best in Northern Ireland, for their wonderful weaving of accessible, beautiful and standards friendly web applications… so to say i’m pleased to join the team, might possibly be understatement of the year 2006

Everyone at the studio has been really friendly and welcoming, and I can’t say how much I’m enjoying working with them. Unlike manys a first day, I was shoved head first into the fast lane and was coding by 10am. Even though I’m in the deep end it’s reassuring to have so many great people in close proximity.

Everything has been so relaxedly efficient, it’s a great atmosphere for working, and I can safely say that in two days I have learned more that is ultimately useful than the 9 months of my previous (boring, corporate) job…. oh yeah apart from a great Design Principles course put on by the inspirational Tara Simpson of InstilSoft. Anyone who’s recommend reading list includes Martin Fowler’s Refactoring automatically gets my admiration.

Oh yeah, did I mention we’re using Ruby on Rails and i’m using my Mac :) So I’ll definitely have some more interesting stuff to write about soon.