I've tried to mention to a few of my co-workers as well as a boss or two that I think creating a weekly podcast. Our development group has plenty of personality as well as technical expertise. I'd love to hear people talk about things they are working on, no matter if it is on our roadmap or not. Rails, Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, JMX and many others could be talked about without giving any company secrets away.
Why should we do it? Well, I can give you a pat answer and then I'll give you an additional reason which is much more selfish. The pat answer is we have plenty of knowledge we could share with other developers. We deal with issues of scaling other sites don't. We use a variety of technologies that I mentioned above which are not always the easiest to get going and use.
Now, the more selfish reason kind of goes along with that to some degree. We do have a great team and I want others to know about it. I'd love for EarthLink to be a sought after place of employment for people wanting to work with the latest technologies, doing incredible things for millions of people. Much has been said about the current online world being one that is GYM, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. You can throw in Amazon, eBay and Apple as well and then obviously you have the smaller companies doing cool things. Well, we should be included in that conversation. I realize that if you looked at our offerings right now, you wouldn't think so but that will change, believe me, it will.
So with all of that being said, I hope soon to let you know about this but if not, know that I'm still trying.
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