With things at Covansys looking grim, it's time to get the site for R.Squared up to snuff. It may not be tomorrow, but one of these days I plan on going into business on my own. I certainly don't intend to hang around here while ineptitude runs the company into the ground.
Working for people who don't know the first thing about Web development grows increasingly tiresome over time. It doesn't help that I've come to the conclusion that I don't like designing user interfaces for bloated Web applications. I find it rather pointless anymore.
I'm actually more interested in using Macromedia's new Flex technology to create Rich Internet Applications. I recently built a Web application in Flash for ArtistRendering.com that was a very good experience. It was a good refesher course in Actionscript, which I haven't worked in for nearly four years. Flash has come a long way since version 4.
But Covansys isn't a smart enough company to make use of these skills. In fact, if it's not Java, you might as well not even bring it up. Well, that's not exactly true, my manager has a sense of how to succeed in this business, but it seems to stop with him, and that's unfortunate. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be able to prototype all of our applications in PHP.
However, the reality is that Covansys is behind the times. It is a dying, mid-level consultant that really hasn't been able to do much of anything right in quite some time.