And lo! There came a man in a pink tee

So, I might just write about my most recent job-hunting adventure. Only I won't mention names or anything, because stuff like that can have all sorts of consequences.

Only, admittedly, the last two posts probably aren't that interesting. Or the second one. Or even the first one, depends on what you find interesting, really. I didn't even READ those pages I linked to, I just wanted to do something cool with a few links on a relevant subject.
All for you! The reader!

Ok, so all my story is (and after buildup like the above, well, it's going to disappoint) is that I went to one job interview, only I didn't quite realise it *was* a job interview - I thought it was a meeting with a recruiter. Hence a pink tee shirt and a growing confusion as to:
a) why I was being shown around a recruitment company's offices, when I CLEARLY wanted an IT job
b) why everyone in the recruitment company were all busy coding
c) why I was being given the (very non-recruitment company-ish) origin story OF the recruitment company.

Anyway, it all turned out well in the end, and I saved the world* which is always nice.

To turn this blog on it's head and cause blood to rush up places that it normally doesn't, I'm going to have a quick swingin GRIPE at the confusion mill that is the J2EE/Struts/Spring/Hibernate/Widget/Yet-Another-Open-Source-Add-On industry. There are too many things doing just plain old too many things that really, honestly, should be able to be simplified.
Only every company in the world seems to have jumped on all these things, and so like a giant, bloated legacy system it is all looking very much like its here to stay. I'm not even aware if there are standard standards that everyone is adhering to when making apps with the above (and other) technologies.
In an effort to become more one with other solutions, tomorrow (or the day after, or maybe next week), I'm going to go and look at Ruby on Rails, which claim(s/ed) to be the magic bullet when I first read about it a year or so ago. But that's going to be AFTER I toil through a few more bloody hibernate/struts/widget tutorials.

Oh! And I'm taking the SJCP Developer exam... soon. As soon as I work out how to sign up for the exam, I'll book it and give myself a week to finish up the book. Rushed? Crazy? Maybe, reader, maybe, but that's how we fly here at MOART - we wing it better than Icarus ever did, anyway. And that's saying something - heck, we can even SWIM should the need arise.

Because, y'know, we are flying over a sea?

Ok, that's me done with a day's blogging!

Ciao!

*But no one will ever know, because THAT'S the kind of hero I am.