IT Reflexions

We all know maintenance projects keep the client happy and bring a reliable and often generous income to the company.
In a previous article I tried to explain some of the reasons that make maintenance projects so unattractive for many developers. I tried to show why for “passionate” (and not only!) programmers the dull IT projects [...]

IT services societies encourage you to work in any project, no matter the technology, but they recruit people with a certain profile/expertise. You usually work in industrial projects that use ancient technologies. How are you supposed to reinforce your competences?
And here are the answers i received to my dilema:
A1: Technical Recruiter

Encouraged is and should not [...]

When preparing an interview for a job, it’s good to have an idea of what the recruiters are interested to hear about your work.
Here are some of the answers that some of them gave me.
A1:
- Doing what is needed and add Creativity (there are S/W programmers who finish their project in less than 50% of [...]

Whenever you are writing your CV, all the good practices say that you should make sure to state your achievements and your results.
But, when working as a developer, what can be considered an achievement ?
Unlike a salesman, that can say how many products he sold, how can the developer evaluate his work ? Or how [...]