Welcome, I'm Marty Haught

I am a software architect/engineer working primarily with Ruby and Ruby on Rails in Longmont, Colorado. I provide software consulting through my company, Haught Codeworks.

New Education Model

Posted by Marty Haught on Sunday, March 18, 2012

Paul Graham recently wrote about frightening ambitious startup ideas. After reading this I was struck by #3 Replacing Universities. I’ve long wondered how the cost of 4-6 years at a university studying computer science compares to the benefit. I’m pretty sure there’s a better way to teach people to program for considerably less. So given the topic my mind went to work envisioning what would be ideal and here’s what I came up with.

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Developer Opportunities, The Rest of the Story

Posted by Marty Haught on Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Picking up where we left off, I want to go deeper into the opportunities that you have once you’ve got some meaningful experience. Whether that’s 3 years in different gigs or 10 years, it doesn’t matter. You’re skilled enough to know how to build software on your own and you can now entertain offers from just about anywhere. What do you do? I’ll break this down into two categories — Mid game and end game. What if you’re not at this point in your career? I’ve got a third post that will cover how to get started and get up to this point. Expect that in a few days to a week.

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