{"id":278,"date":"2008-06-08T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T12:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2008-06-08T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T12:15:01","slug":"a-change-is-as-good-as-a-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"A change is as good as a holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started a new project at work this week. I can&#8217;t say too much about it publicly, but wanted to write a quick post mainly because I&#8217;m quite excited, and also to mention why I&#8217;m not gonna have time to play with many other things for the next month or so! <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been seconded to one of our Services teams, so it&#8217;s a short break from my normal life of product development. It&#8217;s a secondment for a specific project &#8211; developing a messaging library for a customer that will run on their own real-time embedded operating system. <\/p>\n<p>I spent most of this week trying to finish or handover my WPS work, so I&#8217;ve hardly started on the new project. But it&#8217;s already fascinating. Working in C on a customer&#8217;s proprietary platform with some extreme resource constraints (in both memory and operating system functions!) is a fun holiday from my life in development of an application written mostly in Java that runs on mainframes. And it&#8217;s definitely closer to the sort of work I want to do in my career, so the opportunity to do this as my day job for a couple of months is awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started a new project at work this week. I can&#8217;t say too much about it publicly, but wanted to write a quick post mainly because I&#8217;m quite excited, and also to mention why I&#8217;m not gonna have time to play with many other things for the next month or so! I&#8217;ve been seconded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}