VendAsta: Day 1
November 3rd, 2008
Today was my first day at VendAsta. Despite being incredibly sick, it was an awesome day. Everyone was super helpful and friendly. The coffee machine there absolutely lived up to its stellar reputation. And I am starting to get my groove on with the MacBook Pro.
Perhaps the thing I was most impressed with today, was the amount of thought and planning that has gone into their process and systems. From Google Apps for mail and documents, to JIRA for bug / feature tracking, Subversion for revision control and a couple of other technologies, the level of integration is astounding. Using Subversion commit hooks there are automated syntax checking and unit testing routines, integrated code review facilities and a whole pile of other stuff that I was briefly introduced to today. I know that I am missing a lot of details here, but everything I have seen has really impressed me. I am really working in a professional software development environment now. It’s great! I am sure I’ll be posting more details as I come to understand things better in the coming weeks.
