Recommendations are actually way more important than you think, so be sure to solicit them. When a non-technical person looks at a technical person's body of wo

Recommendations are actually way more important than you think, so be sure to solicit them. When a non-technical person looks at a technical person's body of work, they can't really evaluate the quality of your code, so recommendations help a lot. It's been very helpful in the past in landing consulting gigs with small companies.