First week at Barco Posted March 20, 2005 at 7:39 pm

I started working this Tuesday after accepting an offer for full-time employment with BarcoView in Duluth. It took a few days to get everything settled with my employment, but by the end of the week I had a spacious cubicle, access badge, and workstation at my disposal as I seek to come up to speed with our business. My boss and several other engineers have been working to quickly provide me with a broad view of Barco’s business and our role in the systems integration group. The biggest suprise so far has definitely been the amount of paperwork associated with the engineering process; it’s a definite change from how IT operates. It looks like my first task will be to aid a Design Verification Test (DVT) process.

There are plenty of places to eat in the immediate vicinity of work and I have already eaten at Frontera, Moe’s, Jersey Mike’s, and Wendy’s. It’s taking between 35 and 40 minutes to get to work from Smyrna, so I’m definitely looking forward to moving into our new apartment and cutting my commute time down. Titus and I eventually decided on an apartment in Norcross and we will be moving into the new apartment next weekend. Most of our utility providers will stay the same, so I just need to see about having them transferred. My parents should also be coming up to help us with the move.

I’ve spent my off hours absorbed in World of Warcraft and working on reworking my blog to better fit the object-oriented programming paradigm. I flirted briefly with a full migration to PHP5, as well, but I eventually decided that the new classes and objects didn’t really gain me as much as I had hoped. I’ll likely wait until my hosting provider decides to offer PHP5 before switching.