DotNetJunkie XL on the 7th Floor

Looks like all companies want .NET apps now! (and good developers are rare...)

My god,

I haven't been here for a while for several reasons. First of all, I've been extremely busy with a time consuming project for the Dutch government.  Second, I was fed up with the spam I got all the time in my mailbox from the dotnetjunkie blog. But that one looks solved now...

I belong to the .NET group in our company and for the first time in the last 4 years we have no developer without assignment or project. It looks like Dutch companies are back into business spending money on new applications. That's good, that's very good!! But... we actually have to turn down project because we don't have enough capacity to accept new interesting projects. What a shame! And it looks like it is difficult to find new developers with the right skills. Where are those C# gurus hiding in the Netherlands? We need at least an extra 5 to 10 people in the next months.

I guess every company is contracting extra developers right now around here and developers are most of the time going for the highest salary, though environment and team spirit are more important imho.

Is this a trend that we are all making at least 10 hours per day to please our clients because the right people can't be found?