http://blog.lathi.net/articles/2008/01/21/my-first-day-of-freedom en-us 40 On Life, Fatherhood, Christianity, and Computers <p>Friday was my last day at the company that won&#8217;t let me blog about them. I am very excited to be 100% independent freelancing! This has been a goal of mine for many years and it&#8217;s finally come true.</p> <p>This morning <a href="http://railsstudio.com/">Mark Windholtz</a> is coming over to pair with me on a contract we share. It&#8217;s his good for not making me commute on my first day of independence. I&#8217;m looking forward to working with him and several other independent developers.</p> <p>Hopefully now that I&#8217;m not under corporate thumbs I&#8217;ll be able to blog more about the types of problems I&#8217;m seeing and methods for overcoming. I&#8217;ve specifically been asked to write an article on my experiences working remotely on a Scrum project.</p> <p>In addition to writing more, I&#8217;m also hoping to be able to contribute back to the open source community. It&#8217;s tricky when your family depends on your billable hours to also give your work away. However, I think it&#8217;s good balance to work on things my clients require as well as things I&#8217;m interested in. At first, this is likely to be helping <a href="http://technomancy.us/">Phil Hagelberg</a> shape up Emacs for ruby development.</p> <p>So, there you go. I&#8217;m going to be working with some good guys; doing more writing; and working on more open source. Wish me luck!</p> Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:49:00 -0600 urn:uuid:d00b9c36-9e06-403f-aafd-5c7528d1483c Doug http://blog.lathi.net/articles/2008/01/21/my-first-day-of-freedom family consulting emacs Ruby Rails <p>Doug:</p> <p>Congrats. You&#8217;re awesome!</p> <p>Dan.</p> Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:01:27 -0600 urn:uuid:68d288eb-450f-43de-a43f-e7bdd109eeb5 http://blog.lathi.net/articles/2008/01/21/my-first-day-of-freedom#comment-419 <p>Good luck! :)</p> Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:17:42 -0600 urn:uuid:1b34a7ab-5dc1-4884-a1e4-60a61e00090f http://blog.lathi.net/articles/2008/01/21/my-first-day-of-freedom#comment-418 <p>Congrats, Doug! Looking forward to the increased blogging :)</p> Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:19:04 -0600 urn:uuid:ad1299af-d3c7-4de2-a750-7aa11a0dfe4d http://blog.lathi.net/articles/2008/01/21/my-first-day-of-freedom#comment-417 <p>Congratulations, Doug.</p> <p>I look forward to reading more frequent posts from you.</p> Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:04:09 -0600 urn:uuid:8b9411a7-2e11-4ca7-801b-a782c8c2e5fb http://blog.lathi.net/articles/2008/01/21/my-first-day-of-freedom#comment-416