Hombrealto

Today’s officially my last day working for RandomControl.

In these last two years I’ve learned a lot. Chema Guerra is the most proficient C++ programmer I’ve ever seen, with his almost obsessive dedication to clean code and design, and he’s certainly passed lots of that to me. When I began here, I thought of myself as a pretty good C++ programmer. Now I’m a lot better and I know I still have a long way to go before I really get to be “pretty good”. Thanks for the humility lesson, Chema xD

Also, in this job I’ve had to work in C++, C, Objective C, python, ruby, javascript, lua and a couple of small scripting languages, filling my need to learn new things all the time. I really need to shake my brain a bit every few days to keep me interested, and that helped a lot.

I also have to thank Chema for giving me so much freedom with working schedule, holidays and work objectives. Another great thing is that, as I had to move from one side of the country to the other, the fact that we’ve been working from home was a real godsend for me.

To the RC testing team, I have to say you are one of the best CG artists I’ve ever seen, and your renders are so great it’s usually impossible to tell they’re CGI. Keep up that amazing work! And most importantly, you’re great to work with, always giving great feedback and making our work feel valued. I’ll miss working with you, guys!

But it’s now time for me to move to new things, so best of luck to the RandomControl team, the most hard-working guys I’ve seen in my life. I really wish your amazing work really pays off, you sell like pancakes and become trillionaires or something. As for me, it appears I’m going back to my old hobby: games development!

Stay tuned ! ;)

P.S: With a bit of luck, I’ll be able to update this blog a bit more often. Most likely I’ll just post updates in twitter, but I’ll try to post something here too. Btw, my twitter is @jon_valdes :)