Morning people of the palace
Weekend was good, relaxing for once, aka did as little as possible
Just painted the tshirts.
Good morning everyone.
I loved the sport when I could actually watch it. We had power outages for four days in a row. It was infuriating.
But man, Superhero Sunday was amazing. I loved it to bits.
Hi Hi everyone. Weekend was very busy, but had a great race yesterday
Allow me to gloat just a wee bit⌠We finally moved into our new offices today! Things are still a bit rough, as we donât have any paintings and very little decor added so far, but all in all itâs a far cry from where we were. And before you ask, yes those are custom made furniture pieces. Most of them have our company branding on them.
So, here are a couple of shots I took this morning after I settled in at my new desk in my first official office ever!
A team of developers hard at work:
Insta(fake)lawn and a gas braai for the Friday afternoons:
Our custom branded tables with one of our team leads in her office:
My desk:
One of the 2 relaxation areas (this is the bottom floor one):
Our bottom entry area (we have 2 doors with the spiral staircase leading upstairs):
Our main boardroom downstairs:
The top entry area with the smaller boardroom:
I like the piping dividers, the desks look good.
We were going for an industrial / steam punk look, hence the exposed brick walls, surface-mounted conduits and copper paint. Even the bottom floorâs concrete ceilings are exposed in certain areas, like the entry hall, my partner and Iâs offices and the boardroom. Floors are painted cement as well.
Congo rats @Flex
And very nice @FarligOpptreden!
Once the paint on the floor starts chipping get it all off and just polish it up 
I hope it doesnât come off too quickly. We had it specifically renovated like thatâŚ
As long as nothing to heavy gets dragged on it often it should last a few good years 
I am just in love with the plain polished concrete look these days
Mornings everyone!
Very Nice @FarligOpptreden . i love the attention to detail! and those desk and chairs, man that is just awesome!
i loved superhero sunday! i must say though with all the money put behind the initiative, i felt they could have gotten better cosplayers to play the actual superheroes. Also the sponsors shoulf have taken a backseat on the game jerseys⌠especially the sharksâ kit, all the ADT and CellC branding just spoiled their superhero kit
It feels strange to see so many developers working in an office. In my company most work offsite, at home.
Well I now know where I want to work IF I find myself back in SA; Offices look nice @FarligOpptreden
@everyone thanks for the kind words!
These arenât the most of our devs, to be honest. Most of the work at clientsâ premises. We are in total 21 people (of which 4 are support staff, i.e. non-devs). Weâre planning on branching out to Cape Town in the next 2 months and need a team of 7-9 people there for a huge project and to establish ourselves in a region other than Centurion.
@PsychoFish as if youâll ever find yourself down here again⌠Besides, with the push to cloud hosting and processing, I doubt our infrastructure manager would need to be on site⌠hint hint. Weâre moving more towards the AWS environment these days, with some Azure work where necessary. I find myself preferring Linux or Unix environments all the more these days, even though we have a couple of dedicated Windows servers at Hetzner. Weâre retiring one of them soon, as we systematically moved everything over to AWS instances and theyâre performing MUCH better.
If you need a cape town office manager . . . . . 
Funnily enough, I find Azure Web Apps work like an absolute charm for ASP .NET apps; The whole workflow is a little less clunky than Elastic Beanstalk
Will keep that in mind! 
We havenât done much .NET work recently, to be honest. Iâm still pushing for as much Node.js as I can, as I find the developers to upskill themselves much faster and you end up with simpler apps written in more testable manners. Promises are a godsend for modular, dare I say functional, design. Neither .NET nor Java really has an easily understandable or implementable alternative, without a ton of plumbing code that ends up being a nightmare to maintain. Implementing promises across all the various application tiers makes is so much easier to implement repository patterns and the self-contained nature of Node.js apps makes it easier to scale horizontally. Thatâs my experience, at leastâŚ
@FarligOpptreden your offices are looking amazing dude! Congratulations!! So happy to see things going so well there by you. I wish I was a full time developer looking at those offices.