A number of updates, since it’s been a while since I posted anything remotely update-y.

First off, as those of you who follow me on twitter already know, there’s been a change in my employment status. Starting Monday, I’ll be working for Obtiva. I’m very excited about this. I like to do a lot of different things &emdash; code, lead teams, coach, do training, write &emdash; and it looks like I’ll get the chance to do pretty much all of them at Obtiva. Some of you reading this were helpful either by offering support or helping me make a connection, thank you all.

Obtiva doesn’t do a company blog the way Pathfinder does, but I’m hoping to continue to write about Rails, software development, TDD, or whatever else springs to mind. I do think I might switch to a different blogging platform though, the spam attacks are getting to be a little to much for the haphazard install I’ve got going here.

As for the book, it’s moving along. Oddly, job hunting actually didn’t give me as much time to work on it over the last couple of weeks as I was hoping. All the text has been converted to Pragmatic markup, we’ve come up with what I think is the new structure of the book, which groups chapters by common topic more strongly than the original structure did. Hoping for a round of editing based on that structure to be completed shortly, and then we’ll move on to the last round of new chapters, and whatever other review and edit processes come next.