Doing a placement was brilliant, but it had to come to an end at some point.   And when that happened, I had a choice. Stay with Blubolt or work for MyFootballClub.

You can probably guess what I decided by the image to the right.

MyFootballClub is the owner of Ebbsfleet United, and gives members the opportunity to make key decisions for the club, and (soon) pick the team that will play in matches.

The work at Blubolt was good, and the people better, but I felt it was getting to the stage where I needed to move on, to both expand my experience even more (MyFC is a very different environment from Blubolt due to the differing nature of the businesses), and also because some of the work was just getting very irritating, and ended up with a lot of the stuff that we ended up making not being entirely to the specifications, largely due to the specification changing without our knowledge or it being incomplete, and us having to change it with a bunch of kludgy fixes.

MyFC is different.  As part of the team, there isn’t a client who’s word is law.  I actually get an input in what I make, and get to put my own personal touch in.  Invariably there are issues with the membership, who for one reason or another don’t like what we do, but that is to be expected with any project with over 30,000 users. There haven’t really been any of those yet, with the exception of one incident which I won’t go in to.

Since starting at MyFC, there has been a lot of work to do, especially as we have phase 4 of the site to build, which has a lot of major changes from the current site.  As such, I haven’t had as much spare time as I would like (especially as whenever I do have free time, my brother just wants to play Lego Indiana Jones …) , meaning I haven’t had a chance to blog or do a number of other things I have been wanting to do (or need to do – damn uni stuff).

Although I only started three weeks ago, one of the main things I have noticed is that when things do go badly, the web team stand up for each other ferociously.  Nice environment to work in.  And the people are nice too.

Also, some people post too much on the MyFC forums.  I have 16 posts at the time of writing, which although low is still reasonable.  The highest is over 10,000, which shows an insane amount of site usage.

Still, lots of plans for the next few weeks, and it is very busy.  I might try to post fairly regularly, similar to Leyton’s weekly update from the web team.  Don’t have a clue what I will post about though … suppose that will be defined by the events of the week.