Maybe I'm not just that good of a developer. -------------------------- I should have realized that once you start subjectively talking about developer profic

Maybe I'm not just that good of a developer. -------------------------- I should have realized that once you start subjectively talking about developer proficiency, people get defensive. Side projects, in my opinion, are an indicator of developer skill, passion and drive ... they are not the only indicator. Now if you and a guy come into my office looking for a gig and you all compare equally on paper and I like you both, but one guy hacked together a Hacker News firefox extension on the weekend because he wanted to play with the Mozilla addon api and you have nothing ... I'm picking the guy with the addon, and I don't think I need to apologize for that.