posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:30 PM
by
jritmeijer
Passionate Programmers
Yep, the news is out, I have resigned from my job as Technical Director and will go back into contracting. As always I have some mixed feelings about my decision, but I expect things to work out quite well.
Going back into contracting will most likely mean that I will become a full time developer / architect again, which should be fun. Ever since I started coding when I was 12 years old I have had a great passion for everything related to computer, programming and technology in general.
He and I seem very like minded. We share many of the same interests and we both blatantly divide all programmers in the world into two groups:
I cannot agree more. A programmer who treats their job as a way to make money and nothing more will rarely offer more than what they are asked to give. These are the programmers who churn out mediocre code on a mediocre project, do not involve themselves in making better software, just meeting the project specs, and so on. The programmers that are passionate about technology and code writing are the ones who will go home and research the best way of doing something, write code in their spare time, learn new things after hours, and more. These are the programmers you want to hire.
I can't wait to get started again!