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In order to give a better view into a typical work day at Info-Connect, Brian has described here what a day at the office usually consists of for him:
A day at the office usually begins with closing the door to where the graphics sit (Bandwagon). This is a vital point at the order of the day, and something I will strongly recommend new employees to learn to do quickly.
There is something about these creative types, that makes them a lot more noisy than ordinary people. We do, however, not notice this so much any longer, as we have now caged them in.

Usually one is in the middle of a task when signing in, and therefore it is easier to just continue where you left, the day before. We have a wonderful free way of doing things, where you yourself according to best "freedom with responsibility" principle solves your tasks as you feel fit.
We are, however, placed in an open office environment and therefore colleagues are close by, when you need help fixing a problem, or if you need another/different angle on a task - the latter being on of our strong points, I must say :-)!
"Here we have the possibility for following and influencing projects from a-z which gives a strong sense of ownership"

It often happens that you yourself throw new balls in the air, or give ideas to your co-workers - understood in the sense that we often discuss a problem in plenum in order to get input from all sides.
Another plus to the very free frame is that there is never a lack of willing victims when it comes to beating them at the ball table :-)! Coding, of course, is the biggest and most important post on the day, but on top of that is, among other, phone meetings with customers, searching for prey in the fruit basket, a nice lunch with good conversation, lots of water, reading of emails, table football, conversation with colleagues and sometimes meetings with either customers or co-workers.

I am not a coffee drinker, but others would probably point to the coffee machine (or the "coffee pig" as Kenneth enjoys calling it) as being on of the places where they spend the most time. The social life is thriving, and on top of the obligatory Friday beer, it happens that we meet outside working hours.
”the amount of coffee we drink has already excited 15000 cups„
This could be over a card game, at sports events or private parties. For instance, you could offer your colleague a wonderful garden bridge as a gift; which he will then - being an ungrateful brat - pass on to his parents. Just hinting at the graphics again - but I guess that was a side track ;-).
I have been here since 2006 and have participated in a couple of really festive Christmas lunches.

In Info-Connect we develop our own web applications in ColdFusion, and when I was hired, I only had experience with languages like PHP, and a few others that I knew little about. The change from PHP to ColdFusion was really easy and I was provided with the necessary tools - books and advising - from the very beginning. You should not be scared of by the fact that you will need a bit of education in ColdFusion - and as a previous PHP-man incarnate, who has now completely surrendered to ColdFusion; I must say that once you have begun to be comfortable with the new system, you will realize that it is in fact a pretty sweet programming language with an incredible amount of impressive tools and features :-)!
I hope this has provided a good picture of what my everyday at work consists of, and what you can expect from your job, when working as a web developer at Info-Connect.
Best regards,
Brian





