Saturday 18 July 2009

Feed a Geek


It has been a pleasure to have Justin Deoliveira from OpenGeo camped out in LISAsoft offices for the last week. He is a lovely person, and really knows his stuff. On top of the pure friendship factor, I've been able to work up a business case for feeding housing him and his laptop and take him out to lunch, based on the amount of high quality information I soak up in conversation.
Justin seems to be living the often talked about, but rarely seen, life of a programmer working on amazing technology while he is globe trotting around the world. I watched with envy, then took him out to lunch with LISAsoft management, and asked Justin about how well it worked for him. (I wanted my management to hear the answer.)

2 comments:

Ian Turton said...

and the answer was?

Cameron Shorter said...

Justin's answer was:

Working remotely works if you pick the right employees. OpenGeo have a habit of hiring Open Source developers who have already shown themselves to be able to work independently, and hence remote working generally works for these developers.