Will you accept an anecdote? The following very simple project has helped me immensely. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/281msj/fast_offline_rever

Will you accept an anecdote? The following very simple project has helped me immensely. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/281msj/fast_offline_reverse_geocoding_java_library/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/281msj/fast_off... It's taken me from working in an obscure company on an obscure project into being at least somewhat heard of in the specific field. People are using this in lots of projects and it's been ported to many other languages. It's opened up networking with others in the field and in interviews I've had people state "yeah we looked at your code, it's really clean and efficient".