New job so busy

I have started work at a corporate, everything seems quite slow in comparison, which is both good and bad, the pay though was a significant improvement. I think it is what you make of it, having time to test thoroughly and use some different tooling. 

In the making the most of an opportunity, I am making tools so that the test team (which I am in) no longer have to fire up database software and check the databases are up to date, quick winforms app just does it. I hope to build on the automation with selenium just to check sites exist as just a quick test after deploys. 

As a way to get my professional development up, I listen to podcasts on the commute which at the moment is over ten hours per week. The podcasts working for me at the moment are:

• .Net rocks
• Hanselminutes
• Software Engineering radio
• This agile life

New podcasts I am trying out

• {coding blocks}
• Jessie Liberty - Yet another podcast.

Ignored my programming challenges and a couple of weeks away from it simple things take a little getting used to again. Anyway an implementation of the hang man challenge from reddit daily programmer. Hangman sln.

Getting back to reading, way of the peaceful warrior by Dan Millman was quite an eye opener.

Came across a new word percussive maintenance, when you tap a device to make it work