Fight the recession Programmer2.0

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Fight the Recession

Reboot your career

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Excuses given by employers ...

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Your skillset is not complete

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“We have so many good applicants”

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“What makes you different?”

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What is special about you?

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What proves your expertise ?

... in this skillset?

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Can you show us some code?

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Technical questions about ...

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Skillset XYZ

Architecture

System design

Software development life cycle

Patterns

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Do you know about cloud computing?

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What's the latest

Microsoft / Oracle / J2EE

technology that you have worked on?

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Why is this pattern better than that?

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And a lots of other things ...

that your new employer

won't pay you to learn

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You're out of a job

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You have a ...

car loan

home loan

family (new family? )

Life sucks ...

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Maybe you could use

some legal juggling

to handle the loans

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And technology training ...

A skillset upgrade

for the next interview

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The job was easy

Everything came on a plate

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6:00 pm bus

Appraisal

Free food

Hotel stay

Paid travel

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Not any more.

Life has changed

Work has changed

Business has changed

IT has changed

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You're at home

Benched

Lost

Worried

Clueless

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But you DONT need to be

Helpless

Frustrated

Gloomy

Panicky

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Because web2.0 can “save your ass”

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But there's work to be done.

And things to be read.

And stuff to be studied.

...

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And code to be written ...

for free !

Yes, work for free.

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But this is work for yourself.

You're not a slave here.

You're not the boss here.

You're YOU.

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Don't make your company famous ...

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Make YOURSELF famous

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Get a hang of the new wave ...

Open source

Web2.0, Web3.0

wikinomics / crowdsourcing

The semantic web

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When you face the interviewer,

you must have more to tell

than he can understand...

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more possibilities to present than

he has been used to seeing...

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more skills to show

than he can ignore...

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more code to show

than he can expect...

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How many modules,

lines of code,

units,

programs,

have you written for employers?

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Get an estimate of all that code.

Use the same ratio ...

to get an estimate

of how much you can write

in the next 1 month.

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Now think of the problems

the apps in your previous jobs

did not solve yet

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Think of the business cases

Think of the limitations in the spec / FS

Think of the features you loved to add

Think of the features cancelled

Think of the bad user interface

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Now to the present world.

Think of the problems you see

all around you and in your domain

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Think of new domains:

healthcare

infrastructure

“rich” communication

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Energy crisis

Logistics

Mobility( functionally rich apps with a mobile phone interface )

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Who's still making money?

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Schools / Colleges / Universitie / Tutors

Doctors

Lawyers

Infrastructure companies

Clean / green energy companies

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Don't these people need software?

Core software?

Business software?

Web front-ends?

Intelligent front-end apps?

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We'll first talk about

the Business Software

because it's the easiest

to get started with...

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Helpdesk software

Intranet software

Financial software

Communications software

Platform software

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Who's got lots of money

and lives luxuriously

even today?

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Corporations

IT giants

Bosses of IT companies(big or small)

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What's the worst

that can happen

to a company?

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It changes verticals

It lays off people

It goes bankrupt

It shuts down

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What happens to

the top brass?

bosses?

shareholders?

investors?

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Do they face ...

a home loan?

a car loan?

a family to feed?

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NO

NO

NO

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Then they made sure

that they had more money safe

than you did.

This is business.

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What did you gain?

“good salary”

“job security”

“status”

cheap resume “credits”

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What's the money value of those things?

the real value?

the long term value?

value to you?

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Now you're ...

“out of a job”

“sh*t”

“laid off”

“unemployed”

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WRONG!

WRONG!

WRONG!

WRONG!

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You are FREE!

Free to polish your skills

Free to work on something you liked

Free to learn cool new stuff

Free to set up a shop of your own

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Google App Engine, GWT

Yahoo YUI, BOSS

Cloud computing: Azure, ZOHO, Sun, Aptana, Mosso,

Amazon, lots more.

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You have ...

Open source softwareLinux / OpenSolaris / BSD

Sourceforge / Freshmeat / Sarovar /BerliosSDN / dev.java.netApache / Codeplex

Cloud, mobile, multitouch

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The whole damn INDUSTRY

needs an upgrade to

new devices

new platforms

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So loads of work will come

not too far in the future

But ...

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Are you ready?

with the skills you need?

for a change in the way of working?

to churn out new apps in web2.0?

to write cloud computing apps?

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Here's your chance

to avoid the mistakes of last time

to get better at your craft

to make something new

and most importantly ...

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To convince your next employer

that you are better ...

better than what he expects

better than what he thinks

and good enough to solve his problems

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So get out there,

get a good internet connection,

get a hang of opensource,

get knowledge about software patterns

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Start your own project

Reuse good code that masters have written

Make web apps to solve real problems of people

Don't copy the concept,extend it, enhance it, perfect it.

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Join an opensource projectStudy the codeGet on to IRC

Ask people for adviceGet on to forums

Ask people questionsAnswer questions that others ask

Read the codeAdd useful things

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Learn to use ...CVSSVN

BugzillaLinux

(Ubuntu/Fedora/Mandrake/OpenSuSE/...)Java

(J2EE/Ant/Servlets/JSP/JSF/Struts/...)

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Learn to use

GoogleSearchApps

APIs ($$)

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Learn Linux, OpenSolaris, BSD, VirtualBox

to installto repairto script

to backupto support

You can become an ISV, VAR with a hardware seller

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After two months of hard work,you will know how to

deploy, support and maintain enterprise software

A group of friends / ex-colleagues can start a small company

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Don't aim to change the world on the very first project

Do a lot of cold-callingPick up a yellowpages

and

Call, Call, Call

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Out of 100 calls,

1 must give you work

to practise your new skills

without “losing your job”

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Learn to talk to the customer

Learn to handle different types of them

Note technical AND Logisticial problemsthey face in their business.

Then make new products and sell those

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This is hard work.

Not 9-7 and back home

Not dull, boring, routine

Very active, very social,

very enlightening

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Monopolies and corporationsshareholders and investors

bosses and board members ...

make a lot of money because they keep their knowledge current,

they keep their skillset current.

So why not you?

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You can be your own boss

you can be well off

but first you must work hard.

For the first two months,

learn, test, learn, test, learn, test

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The internet is your friend.

Server accounts are cheap or free.

Software is free.

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Don't sit and sulk,use these tools.

Learn the new stuff.Work right from home.

Call up businesses.Locally and globally.

Use VOIP, Social networking, Twitter.

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Get up and get cracking!

NOW!

Good Luck!