Hi, I normally contract in MSBI, Oracle, .Net/.Net Core, focusing on a property platform at the moment. Have also been working hard on upgrading my limited company website too.
Hi there. Good article.
I would add this though. I would say we shouldn't be doing this just to get employment. Obviously, we all need money.
I think it was "Uncle" Bob who said - developers are the most powerful people going, if they know they are powerful. The reason is, they can team together and build products.
It is important to try and monetise these products developers do as side projects. It is a completely different mindset - one I have only myself got over the last year.
One quick example. You are building a major piece of work, are there sub-components which could by themselves be a product.
I am a full stack engineer, passionate about solving complex problems and collaborating with driven teams! I have 4+ years of experience working at small to mid sized startups.
Thanks! I totally agree. My favorite part of being an engineer is the ability I have to create with just a laptop in front of me. When you put a couple of us together, plus some good friends and mediocre ideas, the stars are the limit.
In terms of sub-components that could themselves be a product. Absolutely! Each company's scraper class is a bit of a subcomponent and one of our ideas was to really open source this and let other people add to the scraper library. Anyone interested in getting involved? Let me know!
Hi, I normally contract in MSBI, Oracle, .Net/.Net Core, focusing on a property platform at the moment. Have also been working hard on upgrading my limited company website too.
Am not quite at the stage of selling this through my limited company as it underpins the processing framework for my property platform, but am thinking of launching other deployment/processing applications on this framework very soon.
I am a full stack engineer, passionate about solving complex problems and collaborating with driven teams! I have 4+ years of experience working at small to mid sized startups.
Hi there. Good article.
I would add this though. I would say we shouldn't be doing this just to get employment. Obviously, we all need money.
I think it was "Uncle" Bob who said - developers are the most powerful people going, if they know they are powerful. The reason is, they can team together and build products.
It is important to try and monetise these products developers do as side projects. It is a completely different mindset - one I have only myself got over the last year.
One quick example. You are building a major piece of work, are there sub-components which could by themselves be a product.
Thanks! I totally agree. My favorite part of being an engineer is the ability I have to create with just a laptop in front of me. When you put a couple of us together, plus some good friends and mediocre ideas, the stars are the limit.
In terms of sub-components that could themselves be a product. Absolutely! Each company's scraper class is a bit of a subcomponent and one of our ideas was to really open source this and let other people add to the scraper library. Anyone interested in getting involved? Let me know!
Hi Elisabeth, I have written my own scraping engine. On top of HTML Agility Pack and ScrapySharp.
inforhino.co.uk/innovation
Am not quite at the stage of selling this through my limited company as it underpins the processing framework for my property platform, but am thinking of launching other deployment/processing applications on this framework very soon.
Nice!! I'll be sure to check it out