The Importance of Openness
Posted by Chris Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:10:00 GMT
I’ve started on a new job hunt after being stuffed around and finally fired from a small, and dysfunctional web development company.
Looking around, I’ve realised that I should have been building up a public portfolio, of sorts, before now.
So far, the only thing I’ve released into the wild has been a small, capistrano module, for a very specific, and in my mind ill conceived, application. All the interesting stuff I’ve done has long been scrubbed from my hard drive, in compliance with long-winded NDAs from previous employers (including a rather nifty library for controlling mobile phones through their inbuilt modems to simulate and test network response/reliability).
I suppose my rambling boils down to the advice that you should, if possible, release your work to the public, and if you can’t, you damn well better be knocking up some personal projects to show off your skill.
Off to try to find something interesting to develop, I guess.
