On a spaceship to the web of stars

Posted on December 14, 2011 by David Ajnered

Hmm, weird title. Oh well. About 6 weeks ago I got an offer from a company that I couldn’t refuse, and last week was the first one at this new job. I now work for Starweb as a web developer, improving their e-commerce platform.

Why switch from a well known company with high end clients to a smaller one with only six employees, one product and mostly small clients? Because working in a smaller team is a lot more fun, and in combination of having just one product you really feel that everyone is working towards the same goal. As a developer I never really had a lot of contact with clients, so who cares if they’re high end or not.

My first project is to improve the image uploading feature in the administration section. The old one is built on a custom framework but as a process of improving the code base we’re migrating everything to Zend. The feature will also get a much nicer and better UI.