Independence Day

21 commentsWritten on December 9th, 2010 by
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I'm one of those rare people who's spent more than a few years with his first employer. In fact, i've been there for 8 years and 2 months now. I spent the first 5 years and 3 months working for a client of ours, and then another 6 months working for another client. After that, i moved to our own office where i worked on some projects at first, and then mostly on our products. I've learned a lot of great stuff during those 8 years, and i've grown a lot as a person as well. But the time has come for some serious changes.

I recently started my own company, called That Extra Mile (no website yet). As of January 3rd, i'm going to be working at a client that i'm very excited about. I also plan on doing some other stuff such as (very) short-term consulting, occasionally some workshops/training and i also want to get into iPhone/iPad (and perhaps Android) development. If you were wondering why it's been so quiet on this blog the past few weeks, now you know why. But now that everything has been taken care of and has been set up properly, things can finally get back to how they used to be around here :)

  • Nick

    I knew the silence was too good to last…… :P

  • http://lucisferre.net Chris Nicola

    Sounds like very exciting news. Congratulations on starting your own business!

  • http://www.oppad.no Thor A. Johansen

    Congrats on starting your own business :-)

    Do you know if/how this will affect the development of the Agatha framework?

  • http://elegantcode.com/ Jan Van Ryswyck

    Congratulations with your very own business. I hope you’ll become a milionair soon :-)

  • http://kenegozi.com/blog Ken Egozi

    That’s one heck of a new-year’s resolution :)
    Good luck with your new business

  • http://www.blogcoward.com jdn

    Excellent! Starting your own company is a great idea, I know I haven’t regretted it.

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    Thanks guys :)

    @Thor

    It won’t have an impact on it as far as i’m concerned. Though i don’t really have any new features in mind so far. Suggestions are always welcome of course.

  • Scott Lowe

    Great news – What an adventure! I’m really excited to see what you do next.

  • Bram

    Congrats! It’s never easy to make a decision like that, but in my very humble opinion, it seems like the right thing for you to do.

    Just wondering, will there be any blog posts about the non-technical side of your new occupation? I’m sure those would be pretty interesting. :)

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    @Bram

    posts like that are bound to show up sooner or later :)

  • Lookman

    Congrats,

  • pho

    congrats ;-)

  • http://thezendev.com Dan Martin

    Congrats!

  • http://www.xavierdecoster.com Xavier Decoster

    Congratz and good luck! :-)

  • TDG

    Nice man :)
    Let’s celebrate that with a beer! (or vodka-redbull as you might prefer)

  • http://benpittoors.wordpress.com den Ben

    … will miss one of my earliest colleagues.

    We sure had some good times. Oh, there were bad times too but those are not the ones I’ll remember.

    +1 for that beer (but no more vodka-redbull for me, and if so one without the redbull ;-) )

  • http://jclaes.blogspot.com Jef Claes

    That’s awesome. Good luck.

    And don’t neglect blogging! :)

  • GunShoe

    All the very Best Davy.

  • bennyb

    Congrats! Similar situation here, no website yet.

  • http://peter.worksontheweb.net Peter Eysermans

    Congrats and good luck!

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