So, about a month ago, things came to a head and I handed in my resignation at the BBC. I had a job offer from another company, which promised me a pure developer role, unlike the role I'm currently working at the Beeb.

Well, the BBC came back with a counter-offer, part of which was the promise to move into a flagship project team, as a software developer. I accepted, and so I remain at the BBC, with a move into this project team at the end of the month.

The move should be good; I'm being put on a bunch of training courses for Java, Spring, Ruby and BDD to get me up to speed with the technologies and methodologies used in the flagship project. I will finally become a 'real' software engineer, something I've wanted to be since I was a teenager.