I've changed jobs. I started my new job on monday. I quit my old job last friday. No gap in paychecks or insurance coverage. Very convenient :) I'm still doing computer programming, but it's in a completely different arena than i was previously involved.

At my previous job (notice how i've never once said where that was in all my blogs, and i'm still not saying it now? lol) and at the job before that and the job before that (going back 10 years), i've done java development (and some html and javascript of course, but mainly java). I love java. It's great. I can code java in my sleep. Anything one might want to do, i know how to do it.

At my new job, it's all c++. In fact they don't like java much. It's too bad really, but there are places where java is appropriate and there are places where c is appropriate. This is definitely a place where c is better. I'll be working on a video player for embedded devices (phones, dvr's, game boxes, etc..), and yes - you want c there. So ... i've been dusting off my c skills lately. I did a lot of c in college and _some_ at my first job, but it's been a LONG time. And i must say - looking at c code and looking at java code is like looking at a beautiful painting in a museum (java) compared to looking at some graffiti on the bathroom stall (c).

But this is not the only adjustment. I've also been given a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary development machine. The only time i've used a mac in the past was at a lab at BYU in college. And it was a nasty experience. Some old icky machine. It's tainted my view of mac ever since. But i must say - the UI is beautiful, it's easy to get around, and i'm figuring out all the little ins and out. Plus, i'm running VMWare Fusion, which means i can run Mac and Windows at the same time on the machine, and it works beautifully. This means i can run all my favorite windows only programs and then use Mac for everything else. And since i can dual boot (thanks to bootcamp), i can install hardcode graphics intensive games for windows and they play nicely on here (in fact they play better on my new laptop than they do on my desktop!).

I've got a lot more so say but this is getting really long. I'll check back in when i get more time.

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