<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>+1 rudy :-)<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 21 May 2014, at 20:52, Matthew Rudy Jacobs <<a href="mailto:matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com">matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">When I got my first job, I'd only ever hacked stuff together.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'd made a blog in php, and done a bit of hacky C for maths coursework in Uni,<br>
but I had no idea of real world development.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I went for an interview, and I coded pseudo c++ on a white board, and talked vaguely about polymorphism and other stuff a friend had prepped me on.</p>
<p dir="ltr">They gave me the job, but told me to "go away for 2 months and learn Rails"</p>
<p dir="ltr">And I did.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sitting in my room reading why's poignant guide, and Agile web development with Rails, I thought I knew what development was.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But starting on my first day I had throw that out of the window.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Real world development is different, of course.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Graduates of General Assembly and their like may only have had 12 weeks training, but it's practical, and broad, and they learn TDD.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Don't hire the bad ones, but the good ones you should grab, before they turn on you and demand a daily rate.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Everyone has to start somewhere!</p>
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