Comments on: WebDevRocks Launched! http://www.ryanbrady.org/2007/01/19/webdevrocks-launched/ Assorted Musings, Mostly About Web and Software Development Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:11:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Geek Whisperer http://www.ryanbrady.org/2007/01/19/webdevrocks-launched/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Geek Whisperer Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:09:50 +0000 http://www.oneinspired.com/?p=15#comment-7 It has been my pleasure and I hope our paths will cross again in the future. It has been my pleasure and I hope our paths will cross again in the future.

]]> By: Jim Losi http://www.ryanbrady.org/2007/01/19/webdevrocks-launched/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Jim Losi Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:44:24 +0000 http://www.oneinspired.com/?p=15#comment-6 Hey Ryan, I hear you about "validation". It's hard to kind of gauge yourself among other people out there. When I landed my first TRUE .NET (only) dev role working for a comapany that provided GIS mapping application for utilities, I was working with old C++ devs, some of who migrated to C#. I studied for 3 weeks to get that job and was happy to know that I was the top candidate when they hired me. After about 4 months of working there, I quickly realized that I was right up there with some of the vets. Yeah, they had more experience, but I was able to keep up with them and I even showed a few some cool .NET stuff. They are using my MiniDevSerializer library in one of their apps and they even took parts of that for other apps. To have them validate your skills by using something you created, not for work, but presented to them in hopes that it might help make life easy in some respects was awesome validation for me. I often hold back on releasing stuff because I'm afraid of what other "better" developers might say about the code. Now that I'm working for LVS, I have Dave (Xpando) as a mentor and he's simply a brilliant developer and has instantly increased my skillset as well as validated my skills. Having that come from him was a huge boost in confidence. FWIW, the way you present yourself, the way you've presented your answers.. it really shows that you know your stuff. -Jim Hey Ryan,
I hear you about “validation”. It’s hard to kind of gauge yourself among other people out there. When I landed my first TRUE .NET (only) dev role working for a comapany that provided GIS mapping application for utilities, I was working with old C++ devs, some of who migrated to C#. I studied for 3 weeks to get that job and was happy to know that I was the top candidate when they hired me.

After about 4 months of working there, I quickly realized that I was right up there with some of the vets. Yeah, they had more experience, but I was able to keep up with them and I even showed a few some cool .NET stuff. They are using my MiniDevSerializer library in one of their apps and they even took parts of that for other apps. To have them validate your skills by using something you created, not for work, but presented to them in hopes that it might help make life easy in some respects was awesome validation for me.

I often hold back on releasing stuff because I’m afraid of what other “better” developers might say about the code. Now that I’m working for LVS, I have Dave (Xpando) as a mentor and he’s simply a brilliant developer and has instantly increased my skillset as well as validated my skills. Having that come from him was a huge boost in confidence.

FWIW, the way you present yourself, the way you’ve presented your answers.. it really shows that you know your stuff.
-Jim

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