We’re all moved into our new office (with shiny new desks and everything) and Amigo is back on the conveyor belt. Here’s a quick tour of our office and Ryan to give you an update on the latest issue with PayPal.
This is our environment right now. Yes we are moving offices. I know, I know, great timing huh? We have no telephones or Wi Fi yet so we’re effectively still working from home right now.
But despite our increased levels of disorganisation, Amigo is still ticking along. We received a letter of confirmation from the Patent Office, acknowledging our application for the trademark, and accepting our cheque for £250. So finger’s crossed!
While on the development front - Dave has assured us that we can expect a full Beta in around two weeks and Jason is busy in Philadelphia working on the web designs.
So at the moment Dave and Jason are doing all the work, while we spend our time putting Ikea desks together and getting ‘Allen-key’ wrist! Building web apps certainly is glam…
Apparently there’s interest about the environments we’re all working in. First the eye-candy, these three picture’s are what I consider the main parts of my working environment.
The "geek" section of my book shelf (and, yes, there is also a non-geek section - it’s good to have a balance!). It’s a good reference, some good reads, some half read (awaiting my time), and it’s always growing. Books from Algorithms to [dare I admit it] Visual Basic with much in between (and, yes, alphabetically ordered).
Servers and other hardware, well, the current ones.. there’s been a few over the years! I’ll run through them quickly:
Mac Mini (only really use for Safari testing)
SMC router
DEC programmable switch (thanks Gary - one day I’ll get round to setting this up)
APC Powerstack UPS - that needs replacing.. I can’t have both servers on and running through it at the same time!
IBM xSeries 330 (hopefully the future dev-server for my own app!) running Gentoo linux
Custom built 4u server / desktop, also running Gentoo with KDE as a desktop, RAID, SATA, aeroplane engine.. no, that’s just the fans! This is where I do most of my browser testing, Internet Explorer (ies4linux), Opera, Konqueror, etc.
(in lower picture) IBM t30 laptop which has both Windows and Ubuntu Linux using GNOME as a desktop. This is where I do all my communications (email, skype, sip, im) from, keeping them on a separate machine limits the distraction.
(in lower picture) Motorola E680 - a linux phone (also waiting for my time!), for daily usage I’ve got a Motorola v3.
Desk space, this is a temporary setup all due to change (rack enclosure, Herman Miller Aeron chair, etc) in 2 months or so, but the main part of all this is my keyboard, a Goldtouch Adjustable keyboard, RSI is not something to ignore and this keyboard really helps!
When working I spend most of my time in bash and vim, followed by Thunderbird and Akregator. There’s always music playing - can’t work without music, top of the list to get me coding is at the moment are:
(how depressing, none of them play anymore!).. I’d be interested in what gets other coders coding, music? coffee? a good environment? On that note, time I started coding..
