Tim!!!

So after 2 and a bit years of trying to get my very good friend (well, brother really) Tim Jones to come and work with us, he's finally agreed!!!!

I first met Tim when I was working in London for CD9 - he was doing his "year in industry" and I had been doing the job for a couple of years, and for the first couple of months I knew more than he did. Didn't last long :) And further to him being a coding legend, we became great friends and really helped each other through some hard times.

So I'm so stupidly excited about all of it. Yeah, his salary is enough to give Ben minor heart palpitations but even at the rate he's getting paid, in reality he's a bargain.

Gonna mean a few changes, but Tim's job is ultimately going to be to decide our direction in how we do all things tech, to build and develop our framework (the code that all other web code is built upon) and to do any of the more complex coding that comes into the building. He really is the most talented coder I've ever worked with and more than that he brings a passion and desire to learn which truly humbles me. When you combine that with the fact that he's one of the gentlest, nicest guys you'd wish to meet it really is cause for celebration.

Further to that one of his "hobbies" is writing games engines. Some of the work I've seen him do is truly shocking in terms of you can't quite get around how someone can do this from their home PC...terrain engines, physics engines (with the help of his friend Jason, who is also a genius), and some mindblowing lighting effects - so we will be encouraging his development in this area as much as possible. Even if it never makes it into the "profitable" bracket of work, it would be a crime not to see where he can take this, especially considering all the other compatible talents we have in the company.

So that's it in short. Full time employee no 10 is coming and our business continues to develop and shift in ever more surprising and delightful ways. All we need to do now is find enough work to support Tim - but if that doesn't happen it's our failing not Tim's - he's good enough that we should be able to find more work than he can handle. Like everyone else in this company...

Joyous days x