What I've Been Up To
After returning from my latest trip to India, I'm finally begining to break my long radio silence and blog again. I've spent the past 5 or 6 months really trying to grow professionally and technically. So, what have I been up to?
Professionally, over the past decade I've served every role from Senior Developer to Architect to CTO and CIO. About 2 years ago I spent a good amount of time getting more and more active in business development - a role that makes sense given my love for public speaking. I thought the time had come to grow a bit, so I've spent the past 5 or 6 months functioning almost entirely (I do still write code, though) in a sales capacity. Sales is more challenging, or at the least more frustrating, than business development, but it's essential to any business and I thought it was high time I learned it first hand. I learned 2 things from the experience. One is a new found respect for the job sales people do at solutions companies. The other is that I don't ever want to be a full time sales person. Still, if I'm going to function at an executive level for IT companies, it's important I not only understand/appreciate the role of sales, but also that I intimately understand what it is that they do day-in and day-out.
Technically, I've been extremely busy. I've read, studied, and digested every piece of literature available on the subject of user experience. I've gotten into interface driven application design and tried my hand at putting all these theories into practice. I've been using Flex and AIR a lot as well as AJAX - trying to weigh up the pros and cons of each as well as put CF into the picture for a perspective from the server-side developer's point of view. I've also been taking a lot from what I've learned from LISP and my studies in Object Theory and as a result have been giving a lot of thought to what I would like to see improved in CF as well as to how these ideas might be applicable in ColdFusion development right now.
There's a lot I plan to write about as a result of my past 6 months of exploration, and hopefully I'll find the time in the near future. In the interim, I'm also now actively seeking to take my attention away from theory and away from sales and get back to doing what I do best - writing code and leading IT shops.
Professionally, over the past decade I've served every role from Senior Developer to Architect to CTO and CIO. About 2 years ago I spent a good amount of time getting more and more active in business development - a role that makes sense given my love for public speaking. I thought the time had come to grow a bit, so I've spent the past 5 or 6 months functioning almost entirely (I do still write code, though) in a sales capacity. Sales is more challenging, or at the least more frustrating, than business development, but it's essential to any business and I thought it was high time I learned it first hand. I learned 2 things from the experience. One is a new found respect for the job sales people do at solutions companies. The other is that I don't ever want to be a full time sales person. Still, if I'm going to function at an executive level for IT companies, it's important I not only understand/appreciate the role of sales, but also that I intimately understand what it is that they do day-in and day-out.
Technically, I've been extremely busy. I've read, studied, and digested every piece of literature available on the subject of user experience. I've gotten into interface driven application design and tried my hand at putting all these theories into practice. I've been using Flex and AIR a lot as well as AJAX - trying to weigh up the pros and cons of each as well as put CF into the picture for a perspective from the server-side developer's point of view. I've also been taking a lot from what I've learned from LISP and my studies in Object Theory and as a result have been giving a lot of thought to what I would like to see improved in CF as well as to how these ideas might be applicable in ColdFusion development right now.
There's a lot I plan to write about as a result of my past 6 months of exploration, and hopefully I'll find the time in the near future. In the interim, I'm also now actively seeking to take my attention away from theory and away from sales and get back to doing what I do best - writing code and leading IT shops.
Great, good to see you back. BTW! You are among a few, who can take time off and learn new things with so much of determination and thinking.
All the best..
Thank you
http://www.voyanceo.fr http://www.contact-voyance.com