time to shake it up?

There's no question I've been having a fantastic time recently. I couldn't be more excited about how my oil painting is progressing - and the anatomy for artists study is invaluable... and lexulous (srabulous) is back on facebook!

And that's just my personal life. My working life never slows down - we have a great product on a flexible core component set, and it looks like this year will see even wider adoption.

I credit the success during expansion to a couple of changes; one process, the second design. The design is relatively obvious, but I'm sure I could have implemented it more elegantly, implementation of multi-version services through a single stable public model - while working on the core private implementations without affecting clients.

The process change has been enforcing of the maven build/release - even in the DEV environment. No release goes out without a unique version. Even during the quiet of December, it was worth the extra few minutes - for my sanity's sake :)

It's always a hard call when it comes to staying the current course or finding something new. I'm trying to think about what's best for my career. On the one hand, my current team are awesome and the boys next door make me laugh, the technology is slowly coming up to date (previously JDK 1.4 - now JDK 6), however it's a strong focus on integration and back-end services - rather than full application design.

I guess I want it all! From back end design to fancy web 2.0 front end stuff :)