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Fair? Absolutely. As has been mentioned though, you may miss out on some real gems. I'm working hard to change it of late, but almost everything that I am mo

by bmelton 16y ago

Fair? Absolutely. As has been mentioned though, you may miss out on some real gems. I'm working hard to change it of late, but almost everything that I am most proud of has been done for intranet-work. I've built a number of quite impressive applications, all of which are shrouded in secrecy behind a firewall -- happily (and ably) servicing the requests of the customer. This means, of course, that none of that work is 'showable'. I often ask permission of my customers to keep screenshots (with details obscured), and except for my government customers, most of them are pretty amicable, but of them, many won't allow it to be online where their competitors can see them. Does this make me a sub-par developer? I don't think that it does. It does imply other things, of course, in that I might have trouble building to internet scale, for example, but I'm happy to SHOW you my work, it just might have to be in a zip file, or behind a password-protected website.

petervandijck 16y ago
And you can't even take a 100px x 100px cut out of some of those excellent screens to put in a portfolio? A widget? Obscuring actual client information? Somehow, that just doesn't sound right. You have to put yourself in the shoes of someone hiring. Make an effort to show me your work. Password protected is ok, by the way, just send me the password in your application.
- bmelton 16y ago
  I personally have never had a hard time finding work, so don't consider it a complaint from my end, but I've also always been able to work with the hirer to get them that information. To put it into perspective though, most of my clients are federal government agencies, and yeah, to them, even a 100x100 pixel screenshot is tantamount to treason.
  - petervandijck 16y ago
    Don't want to encourage treason either :) I just want to be able to discard really bad designers (and there are a lot of them) with a 30-second glance at their work. Similar to the supersimple coding test to weed out the developers who can't actually code.

by bmelton 16y ago

petervandijck 16y ago

And you can't even take a 100px x 100px cut out of some of those excellent screens to put in a portfolio? A widget? Obscuring actual client information? Somehow, that just doesn't sound right. You have to put yourself in the shoes of someone hiring. Make an effort to show me your work. Password protected is ok, by the way, just send me the password in your application.

bmelton 16y ago
I personally have never had a hard time finding work, so don't consider it a complaint from my end, but I've also always been able to work with the hirer to get them that information. To put it into perspective though, most of my clients are federal government agencies, and yeah, to them, even a 100x100 pixel screenshot is tantamount to treason.
- petervandijck 16y ago
  Don't want to encourage treason either :) I just want to be able to discard really bad designers (and there are a lot of them) with a 30-second glance at their work. Similar to the supersimple coding test to weed out the developers who can't actually code.