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Contribute to open source, and start your own projects. Show your passion for what you do.

by ianl 15y ago

nicetryguy 15y ago
i have made a few Flash games. Can do Flash (AS2/3/Flex). Have experience in PHP / MySQL , javascript / jQuery. Currently building an online game editor / creator (my startup yCombinator plan) i would be glad to contribute to an open source project, haven't found one that has really caught my eye, or that i feel i could add meaningful input to. i should search Github / Google Code a little harder, fire up Mercurial, and give it a shot
- benologist 15y ago
  There's money to be made in Flash games if you're unaware of it - http://flashgamelicense.com http://flashgamelicense.com is a great place to sell the licensing rights etc. If you want more info on that drop me an email.
  - nicetryguy 15y ago
    Thats cool. i was waiting for the AIR complier to get a bit faster / hardware accelerated on Android. I will check this out. Thank you
    - benologist 15y ago
      No worries. Let me know if you have questions, or just hit up the FGL guys if you sign up - they actually just put a nice big "Ask FGL" button on the forums the other day.
- scorchin 15y ago
  Sounds like you're about to invest heavily in a web-based company. The main application that customers will see your product through is a web browser. You can easily write code for, and contribute to, these browsers. Whether it's for the rendering engines (gecko, webkit) or their open-source browser counterparts (firefox, chrome). Get involved!
greengrime 15y ago
Yeah, sure -- in theory. In practice, most people don't care. I can't tell you the number of times I've had an interviewer come into the room and clearly state that they haven't even read my resume yet (so excuse them if they take a minute to look at it first), much less looked up my projects or my website. This has happened everywhere, from tiny startups and Google/Microsoft/Facebook to banks and contract positions. Even when I've worked on projects related to the company (e.g., Twitter and Facebook apps when I interviewed at them), the interviewers had no clue (and I mentioned them quite prominently on my cover letter/resume/site). They don't look them up afterwards, either (using Google Analytics, I can tell whether they've visited). There have been a couple times when the interviewer has looked up and liked my projects, and we've had fun discussing them, but this has been quite rare. So unless you're directly using your projects to market yourself (i.e., you're purposely using them to network, rather than just doing them for fun and "passion"), I find this advice rather naive. But maybe I'm just Doing It Wrong, and YMMV.
- alnayyir 15y ago
  There's clearly something stymieing you here, and you're the common denominator. We're not psychic, if you aren't upfront with your lack of social skills, your potential to be dunning-krugering yourself, or your unwillingness to write code on your own time for the sake of it, we can't do much for you. I had a rough start to my career (I have no degree and spent the latter half of my senior year of HS trying to avoid getting slapped with a felony charge), but I still managed to make it because when it came down to it, I enjoy programming. I enjoy programming so much that regardless of what happens in my career, I will code. I will code hungry, tired, or homeless. I will code at night, in the morning, and in the afternoon. Getting paid to code is a plus, but not the point. This attitude showed, and I was eventually given a shot. Where's your code? Why do you want to be in this industry? Good luck sorting yourself out. The early years are usually rough. I'm going to go get some night riding in. 2nd edit before I go: You shouldn't give a fuck if anybody, including an interviewer, sees your code. One of the quirkiest but most interesting programmers I've ever known is a 50-something year old that has worked as a line cook his whole life (other than a brief stint in the military). No formal education. Rough around the edges, maybe 5 people in the whole world have seen his code, and he's probably better at programming than you are... ...because he codes. His latest project? A pseudo-stack machine JIT runtime thingamajobber. The man amazes and amuses me regularly.

Contribute to open source, and start your own projects. Show your passion for what you do.

by ianl 15y ago

Contribute to open source, and start your own projects. Show your passion for what you do.

i have made a few Flash games. Can do Flash (AS2/3/Flex). Have experience in PHP / MySQL , javascript / jQuery. Currently building an online game editor / creator (my startup yCombinator plan) i would be glad to contribute to an open source project, haven't found one that has really caught my eye, or that i feel i could add meaningful input to. i should search Github / Google Code a little harder, fire up Mercurial, and give it a shot

benologist 15y ago
There's money to be made in Flash games if you're unaware of it - http://flashgamelicense.com http://flashgamelicense.com is a great place to sell the licensing rights etc. If you want more info on that drop me an email.
- nicetryguy 15y ago
  Thats cool. i was waiting for the AIR complier to get a bit faster / hardware accelerated on Android. I will check this out. Thank you
  - benologist 15y ago
    No worries. Let me know if you have questions, or just hit up the FGL guys if you sign up - they actually just put a nice big "Ask FGL" button on the forums the other day.
scorchin 15y ago
Sounds like you're about to invest heavily in a web-based company. The main application that customers will see your product through is a web browser. You can easily write code for, and contribute to, these browsers. Whether it's for the rendering engines (gecko, webkit) or their open-source browser counterparts (firefox, chrome). Get involved!

greengrime 15y ago

Yeah, sure -- in theory. In practice, most people don't care. I can't tell you the number of times I've had an interviewer come into the room and clearly state that they haven't even read my resume yet (so excuse them if they take a minute to look at it first), much less looked up my projects or my website. This has happened everywhere, from tiny startups and Google/Microsoft/Facebook to banks and contract positions. Even when I've worked on projects related to the company (e.g., Twitter and Facebook apps when I interviewed at them), the interviewers had no clue (and I mentioned them quite prominently on my cover letter/resume/site). They don't look them up afterwards, either (using Google Analytics, I can tell whether they've visited). There have been a couple times when the interviewer has looked up and liked my projects, and we've had fun discussing them, but this has been quite rare. So unless you're directly using your projects to market yourself (i.e., you're purposely using them to network, rather than just doing them for fun and "passion"), I find this advice rather naive. But maybe I'm just Doing It Wrong, and YMMV.

alnayyir 15y ago
There's clearly something stymieing you here, and you're the common denominator. We're not psychic, if you aren't upfront with your lack of social skills, your potential to be dunning-krugering yourself, or your unwillingness to write code on your own time for the sake of it, we can't do much for you. I had a rough start to my career (I have no degree and spent the latter half of my senior year of HS trying to avoid getting slapped with a felony charge), but I still managed to make it because when it came down to it, I enjoy programming. I enjoy programming so much that regardless of what happens in my career, I will code. I will code hungry, tired, or homeless. I will code at night, in the morning, and in the afternoon. Getting paid to code is a plus, but not the point. This attitude showed, and I was eventually given a shot. Where's your code? Why do you want to be in this industry? Good luck sorting yourself out. The early years are usually rough. I'm going to go get some night riding in. 2nd edit before I go: You shouldn't give a fuck if anybody, including an interviewer, sees your code. One of the quirkiest but most interesting programmers I've ever known is a 50-something year old that has worked as a line cook his whole life (other than a brief stint in the military). No formal education. Rough around the edges, maybe 5 people in the whole world have seen his code, and he's probably better at programming than you are... ...because he codes. His latest project? A pseudo-stack machine JIT runtime thingamajobber. The man amazes and amuses me regularly.