After to-ing and fro-ing with my old employer, regarding 15 days of unpaid holiday (thats 3 weeks!) because they are claiming the Http module I wrote is thier property, because "any work you do outside of work is our (intellectual) property" and "everything you learn here is our intellectual property, anything you use it for is our intellectual property" (thier quotes, not mine), so they have decided to ILLEGALLY withhold my money.
They are claiming that to recreate my Http module, it would "take us considerable time" and "its not an easy task" - which i find hilarious. It took me 2 days after work to create it (its 195 lines in total, 7kb of source code), working from 8pm till 11pm, so thats 6 hours of time - the working day at my old employer is 8.5 hours (ok, 7.5 with an hour lunch break) so they should be easily able to create it, but it turns out they arnt such good programmers as I am...
To be honest, I just wanted to leave the company on a good note - I decided to let thier ageism slide (I was told, to my face, by the Managing Director that "If you were older, I would have made you a senior developer" and "He was picked over you because he is older"), being slandered infront of other developers as I was leaving - "You are a pain in the arse" and "You can take your crap and get out of here", but I guess they are just sore loosers...
Anyway, I have applied for a few positions, and am waiting to hear from them...one of them looks promising though. In the mean time, I have some interesting ideas for one of my domains.