The document discusses qualities that companies look for in programmers beyond just technical skills. It advocates that programmers should be team players rather than "rockstars", be egoless and willing to learn from others, and always be learning new technologies through activities like contributing to open source projects. The document is presented by Wiktor Schmidt from the software development company netguru.

1. Why no one is looking for
"rockstar programmers"
Wiktor Schmidt, netguru
@wiktorschmidt
wiktor@netguru.co
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2. netguru
● Ruby on Rails
● working on projects for clients
● 50 people
● 40 developers
● focus on finding and training great
developers
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6. ?
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7. 1
Team player
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8. Things you should never say
● works on my machine
● blame shows me that Joe commited this line
● it was like this before my changes
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9. 2
Egoless
programmer
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11. Egoless programmer
● You are not your code
● There is ALWAYS someone that is better
than you that you can learn from
● There is ALWAYS someone that is worse
than you that you can teach
● Critique other people's code not other people
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12. 3
ABL
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13. Always Be Learning
● Which technology that is relevant today was
relevant 5 years ago?
● Which technology that was relevant 5 years
ago is relevant today?
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14. What now?
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15. What now?
● go through someones open source code,
improve it and send a pull request - be open
to feedback from others
● learn a new technology/library (can I
recommend Ruby? ;) - strive to learn a new
one every few months
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16. Thank you
Question / comments?
● twitter: @wiktorschmidt
● email: wiktor@netguru.co
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