I've been at Ephox for three months now, and the ride is continuing to be a good experience. I've had the pleasure of spending most of the past month in development. It was quite strange finishing up the support, with me actually being sad to leave.  I was really getting into the customer interaction, and being able to help people come to some good positive solutions.

Moving out from support to development was a happy transition to make.  I went as far as to move desks getting closer to poking Doug and AJ.  I had a blissful first week of development, getting into the swing of things before Andrew (the CEO) came to visit.  I was really getting into the swing of being a happy code monkey, and Just a programmer, when Andrew shook things up, and we heard of plans for a restructure introducing more product managers, with the goal of better working as a company.  I am now going to join AJ, and Damien, and be a product manager.  AJ and Andrew have already started talking about what this might involve, and I'm really looking forward to what the new role has to offer.  Given the fact that I came to Ephox to code, it is ironic that I will have spent more time in support than coding, and I'm going to be a manager.  That said, I am definitely looking forward to the new role, and to the opportunity to be the customer voice (or as Dan North used to put it, "The Truth").  I've always been keen on delivering software that meets peoples needs, and one of my key responsibilities in this role will be guiding the development of EditLive! to ensure that we continue to meet expectations.  There is plenty to learn, and I'm excited about the new opportunities to grow.  

The month of coding has been fun.  I've learnt some things about JavaScript, and we got to add some nice features to EditLive.  I also got to learn more than I ever wanted to know about IWWCM.  My respect for Jack (our resident IWWCM expert) has gone up immensely (not that I didn't respect him before).  It has been nice to loosely be a part of the work that has been put into improving the stability, startup experience, and performance of the Editor, and I look forward to continuing to be able to influence the direction of EditLive!

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