I (in)formally joined the Pandora Squared development team yesterday (informally, because I haven’t signed the contract yet; it’s sitting in my backpack beside my desk). Pandora Squared specializes in Web 2.0 software and consulting, which is a field I’ve been really interested in for the past 2 years. I’m fairly excited about it, as it’s a chance to work on a different class of projects altogether for me.
At the moment, I’m the n00b on the team, as I don’t have any work experience in the language Pandora uses, Ruby (along with its celebrity framework Rails). I spent the past two days reading up on it as much as I could, but I’ve a feeling I’m gonna need to get my feet wet with an actual project before I can really grasp all the various conceptual and syntactic differences between PHP and Ruby.