If you follow me on twitter then you already know this news and if you don’t follow me, why not? The big upcoming news is that several weeks ago I was contacted by a local development company wanting to know if I was interested in coming in for an interview. Now I have been freelancing full time for well over two years and part time for awhile before that. I love working from home, setting my own hours, finding clients that I enjoy, etc. However, last year I started thinking about maybe moving to a firm. I had looked at a few but in the end just kept with freelancing. Being contacted by DigiMedia last month was an opportunity that just fell into my lap so I had to at least check it out.
I went for an interview and it went great. Met the other developers and got a tour of the place which was really nice. They are located on the 8th Floor of the Chase Bank Tower here in Wichita Falls, TX. In fact just down the street from where I live right now. All the guy there were great, they have a great setup and working on projects that interest me. The company started as a domain company with a huge portfolio of top level and mostly generic domain names (jerky.com, drum.com, etc). However, they are working on developing out some of those domains. Meaning it will be 100% internal work. I won’t have to deal with clients, invoicing and all that admin stuff that I hate doing anyways. Some of their recent two sites are FantasyFootball.com and MovieReviews.com.
I am looking forward to joining their team and finally got word last night that I will be starting this coming Wednesday. I will still be doing some freelancing part time. I have a few clients that I will continue to work with and of course plenty of personal projects to finish up. So, things will be changing for me but it looks like for the better and I’m excited about it.
I’ve been wanting to do more videos and I finally got around to doing a 5 Things for Viddler. So, enjoy 5 things you may not know about me and if you haven’t posted your own 5 Things video, head over to Viddler and post one already.
The Sevendust and Saliva show last night was amazing. All four bands kicked ass including the two local ones from Dallas, TX; Neverset and Overscene. You can find pictures on my flickr here; http://flickr.com/photos/twofivethreetwo/sets/72157604790835222/ (pics aren’t great but a few good ones as crappy camera + fog machine/strobes = blurry). I also took a few quick videos of songs from Saliva and Sevendust which you can find here; http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9E8B85193A11B197 . Also did a quick Me Today as I was leaving the Kay Yeager.
After dinner tonight we headed to Midwestern State University to the Fantasy of Lights as it was the last day and due to weather and a busy holiday week we hadn’t taken the kids to see them. It was still cold (just below 40F) but was nice. Plus this gave me the chance to have my first blog of the new year to be a video. Tomorrow I will be posting my resolutions for 2008 along with my plan to Blog365. You can see more Fantasy of Lights pics in my flickr gallery.
Just a quick Merry Christmas video. Attempting to get the food started while the kids are busy with new toys. Lots of pictures uploaded to flickr already so check ‘em out. Remember more videos coming in the new year.
