Matt delivered Mootka (see below). It was not what I had hoped for. In retrospect, the ‘hands-off’ approach was probably wrong. I am afraid that my feedback was rather tactless. I believe that Matt has had enough. He has been astonishingly patient and dedicated; I owe him a great deal in money and kind. With Matt’s absence, I am turning to Scriptlance. Means my ideas are more exposed but it should mean that I have more control over development.
Found some great comments on The Register by Anonymous Coward. Here is his take on hiring IT staff:
The good thing I’ve noticed is companies have realised they can vet cvs quicker than agents, so they have one woman in personnel stick out a job advert and catch a thousand cvs. At this point some 2 techies short list over their lunch hour removing all those who, can’t spell, think they were using ODBC when they were using OLE DB etc, have hobbies such as “Socialising”, “Music”, etc — eg coming in with a hangover or tired, and texting mates all day. Then they’re cut down again, removing all the premenopausal women, but keeping all the women you’ve got with children all over 7, one of these women will know exactly how to solve the company’s woes because she’s been there 20 years, and is brilliant but noone listens to her because she’s female and doesn’t have any ambition. Then you throw 50% of the rest in the bin – who wants to employ someone who is unlucky?
At the end you’re left with a few dozen, so you get them in, and reject all the tall project managers – tall people are universally overestimated so they’re not going to be as good for the same level of promotion as someone who has got promoted despite being a dwarf. On the techie side you look at their career history for success. The brilliant never fail inspite of the management, so they’ll have worked on a load of difficult, but still successful projects.
Weed out those who want to use every latest bit of technology, they leave before they’ve finished, and hey presto you’ve got your men.
New competitor called Chanced It (see below) spotted by Marjorie. Closest technique to Look2look so far. My bet is that they will face the same issues as Look2look. Could be wrong; their design, styling and copy is way better than anything I managed.
