Why my new job rocks...

I work for the Houston Chronicle, the main news paper here in Houston Texas. I'm an application developer in the online advertising team and I love it. It's the best job I've ever had. Briefly, here are a few of the reasons why chron is a great place to work.

• they're a Linux/Perl shop
• the team is small (chron.com is run by a handful of geniuses)
• I'm the worst player in the band [read this book for the explanition]
• everybody's cool, down to earth, and did I mention they're super geniuses!?!
• They are all about the following:
  • TDD
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Dynamic Languages
  • Open Source
  • Buffalo Wild Wings
  • Sending us (read: me) to trainings (1, 2)
  • Simplicity
  • Investigating new technologies
  • Ruby on Rails
• Good Management
• I'm learning new stuff EVERY day:
  • GNU Screen + GNU emacs are my new best friends
  • Ubuntu is rock-solid linux goodness. The fist distro that I've stuck with!
• group outings to BWW, Jillian's, etc...
• and last but not least, large amounts of weeeeee!

Update: [20070627] I'm doing some link updates and making some minor tweaks 9 Months later and Chron is still as awesome as ever.