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Journeyman Project Trip 1 United Kingdom

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Re: Journeyman Project Trip 1 United Kingdom

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Post by robfitz »

Any of the host companies willing to share details of the projects that were worked on? Quite curious!

Edit: Also wondering about the general experience of getting good work done with someone new to the team/project in just a couple days.

Re: Journeyman Project Trip 1 United Kingdom

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Post by phpnode »

robfitz wrote: post #2

Any of the host companies willing to share details of the projects that were worked on? Quite curious! Edit: Also wondering about the general experience of getting good work done with someone new to the team/project in just a couple days.

if you've ever met Jacques you'll know that he's one of those people who can jump into just about anything and be productive straight away

Re: Journeyman Project Trip 1 United Kingdom

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Post by robfitz »

phpnode wrote: post #3
robfitz wrote: post #2

Any of the host companies willing to share details of the projects that were worked on? Quite curious! Edit: Also wondering about the general experience of getting good work done with someone new to the team/project in just a couple days.

if you've ever met Jacques you'll know that he's one of those people who can jump into just about anything and be productive straight away

Any sense of what makes him that way? Is it something you've seen in other people as well? Is it a skill thing or a communication thing?

Re: Journeyman Project Trip 1 United Kingdom

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Post by tikhonj »

That's a pretty brilliant idea!

Sounds like something I'd love to try some day. Of course, two days—or even fourteen days—at a single company isn't enough to get much programming done. So I suspect just trying to do normal programming would not really be in the interest of the companies or me.

However, it sounds like a great chance to share some of my more specialized, esoteric knowledge, like functional programming, FRP, verification or synthesis: things which might be useful for a startup or project, but tend to languish away in research labs or deep inside large corporations.

In the future, if I'm ever in a real position to try this—I guess if I get better known and learn more interesting things to share—I'll definitely consider trying something like this.

Re: Journeyman Project Trip 1 United Kingdom

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Post by phpnode »

robfitz wrote: post #4
phpnode wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if you've ever met Jacques you'll know that he's one of those people who can jump into just about anything and be productive straight away

Any sense of what makes him that way? Is it something you've seen in other people as well? Is it a skill thing or a communication thing?

I think it's a combination of having a broad range of skills, experience and not being at all afraid to call bullshit bullshit. He's polite but focusses on getting stuff done and not the minutiae. If you have the opportunity to work with him, take it!

Re: Journeyman Project Trip 1 United Kingdom

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Post by Nanzikambe »

tikhonj wrote: post #5

That's a pretty brilliant idea! Sounds like something I'd love to try some day. Of course, two days—or even fourteen days—at a single company isn't enough to get much programming done. So I suspect just trying to do normal programming would not really be in the interest of the companies or me. However, it sounds like a great chance to share some of my more specialized, esoteric knowledge, like functional programming,…

Actually you can get an amazing amount done in two days.

For example:

  * A company looking for a prototype of something that they wouldn't otherwise have the capacity to do
  * Refactors
  * Code audits
  * Four eyes or rapid/agile development partner for a staff member
  * Junior dev mentoring/training on a specifc aspect
  * Presentation of a technology that might be relevant for which they lack inhouse expertise
  * And of course simple app dev. Many inhouse tools can be written in just a few hours.
And so on.

Re: Journeyman Project Trip 1 United Kingdom

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Post by Nanzikambe »

phpnode wrote: post #3
robfitz wrote: post #2

Any of the host companies willing to share details of the projects that were worked on? Quite curious! Edit: Also wondering about the general experience of getting good work done with someone new to the team/project in just a couple days.

if you've ever met Jacques you'll know that he's one of those people who can jump into just about anything and be productive straight away

I certainly agree! Some of his publicised projects, including this one, have been major motivators for me.

Re: Journeyman Project Trip 1 United Kingdom

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Post by RyanONeill1970 »

robfitz wrote: post #2

Any of the host companies willing to share details of the projects that were worked on? Quite curious! Edit: Also wondering about the general experience of getting good work done with someone new to the team/project in just a couple days.

I wrote up my side of Jacques / The Flying Dutchmans visit here, http://ryanoneill.com/jacques-mattheij/

He was brilliant and very engaging.

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