Today, I’ve watched the presentation that Scott Hanselman gave in Devscovery last monday. (if you also want to watch it, check Scott’s post)
His keynote got me thinking, whereas the reason for this post. I’m just going to write about my own experiences and I assume that who reads this later may or may not agree with me.
I’m not social. Period!
You may think that as developers our work needs a very small percentage of social interaction. Basically, meetings. Well, but if we want to succeed as developers and climb the ladder in software engineering you’ll need social interaction. I’m really up for information/knowledge sharing. We, the geeks, know the tools that better help us doing that sort of thing.
Where am I
- Blog: This blog has the purpose to share my ideas with others (and getting their reaction, which until now result in just one person) but mainly I’m using it in order to google myself later :) and you can find great developer/blogger out there that have valuable information. I do think that reading blogs is far more important than writing one. There are already great information on how build apps using best practices, a specific technology, how to test our code and so on.
- Linkedin: In the past it was usual to exchange business cards. I remember my father having an agenda with all his connection’s business cards. But now, I use Linkedin simply because the people on my network is constantly updating their profile and anyone who wants can check what I’m doing or what I’ve done. Since I created my profile I was contacted more often, for job interviews.
- Twitter: Where you’ll find me more often. I really like the way I’m getting information from the people I follow. The Twitter usage is suppose for you to write what you’re doing. But I’m using it mostly to share articles and posts that I find interesting. And that engaged some very interesting discussions.
- Stackoverflow: I blame myself for forget to mention that lately you can also find me at Stack Overflow. It’s an incredibly web app that allows a community information exchange. The site is like QA with wiki. Very cool. Way better than this one. [UPDATE]
It’s all about sharing information
I think that is also important some sort of gathering where we all discuss and exchange ideas in software engineering. See one of my latest posts:
…put people talking and sharing experiences with each other.
The bottom line is: developer meeting the social == exchanging information
Until next time ;)