This relatively new "show me your github or I'm not interested" fad is getting old. If you are so narrow minded to judge development proficiency based on having

This relatively new "show me your github or I'm not interested" fad is getting old. If you are so narrow minded to judge development proficiency based on having an open source portfolio, then sorry I'm not even interested in working for you. You are more than likely going to lose some talented developers with this approach. I get the fact you want to see some code, there are other ways though than taking this hardliner approach. Not two days ago I ran across a job posting on SE that was very clear that if you did not maintain a public github profile they weren't interested at all, just shocking to me. My Excuse? My previous employment I coded in .net and php for nearly 5 years as the only developer at the company. Personally wrote thousands of lines of proprietary business code I simply can't show you. Routinely put in a lot of time in and outside of work. I was coding and committing code before GitHub was cool, hell, before it was even founded. I work on my own now getting a few ideas off the ground and doing freelancing. I just checked my local SVN repo, I have about 25 projects in there over a few years (some massive). I routinely work 12 hours a day for clients and moving my projects forward. None of this code is public. 1. I don't use github, nothing again git or github at all. SVN works well for me, fits my use case and I know it well. I know how to use git, I have a github account with a few small contribs to javascript libraries I've help extend, but that is all. It is simply .01% of a reflection of the code I've written. 2. I would love to contribute to open source more, but I have priorities, life, family, my own goals. There simply isn't enough hours in the day. 3. I could talk ALL DAY LONG about my experiences coding various projects using whatever framework you want to talk about. I can show you code for my personal projects, although it isn't public. However, if you want to judge me on my lack of github/bitbucket, then so be it.