That's awesome Brian, I went a similar route in the early days of node. I quit my senior PHP position to work on node full time, and now some consider me a node expert. There is no shortage of smart people in the world, that's for sure.
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Brian Link <cpsubr...@gmail.com> wrote: > RE Hiring, I have found it difficult to find node 'pros' that are looking > for a new job, however, we have started migrating some of our PHP devs (who > have a little js experience) over to some node projects and they are able > to become productive very quickly (a month or so). With time, they'll be > architecting systems of their own. > > > On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:01:06 PM UTC-8, David Jacobs wrote: >> >> Hey guys, >> >> I would love to convince my new company to build our platform using >> Nodejs as our server-side language. Node is a possibility for our small >> team, but a few questions will have to be answered before I can convince >> everyone that it's worth using: >> >> 1. Would it be harder to hire if we built our apps with Node? (We're a >> startup in the Bay Area.) More specifically: Hiring for people who know >> about or already love Node seems like a nice filter for talent, but is it >> too stringent of a filter? What percentage of the community wants to code >> using Node professionally but isn't right now? Do we have metrics on that? >> >> 2. What are good examples of complex domains that have been tackled with >> Node web apps and API layers? >> >> 3. What major road blocks have teams discovered at the edges of Node? >> >> What other tips do you have for convincing an employer that the language >> makes good business sense? >> >> Best, >> David >> > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
