This Developer’s Life:  Young Developers in Seattle, Give Me a Call

Dear Reader,

I’ve spent the last few days hauling desks down flights of stairs and across the city to help set up our new office.  While this would normally get you a thousand word rant on how much I hate moving, it instead sparked within me an idea; an idea for a bold new experiment. 

I can’t speak too much on this grand new idea (as many of you know, I’m kind of a cagey guy…I’d rather talk about an idea after it works than when in the pie in the sky phase, after all, we’ve all said “I have the next big thing” one too many times), but I wanted to put the word out there that we have some harebrained scheme a’ brewing.

I’m posting this on Gama because I intend to write about the result for Gama when we have enough data (one way or the other…) to write a proper article on this wild experiment of ours.  In the mean time, any young developers reading this in the Seattle metropolitan area, if you are interested in getting your products to market and having your own studio someday, I would like to make you the first test subjects for our new and perhaps unhinged imaginings.

The only qualifications are that you need to be willing to work hard and be good at what you do.  Beyond that, I’m not recruiting for Divide by Zero and in no way will you be working on Divide by Zero products, you will be working on your own work (or on work you agree upon with a team of likeminded individuals) and you will receive all credit where credit is due.

There, isn’t that mysterious?  Well that’s all you’ll get out of me in such a public setting!  But catch up to me at PAX or just email me at jportnow@gmail.com and I’ll let you know the rest of the plan!

Oh, and to my dear readership that isn’t in Seattle, forgive me for this post…trust me, it will be worth it when I put up the data that comes out of it!