Why do we have to give corporations anything? The US is the one with a friggin army. Go in an sieze the friggin funds and tell them tough fuckin cookies. And at the same time cut back their HB-1 visas and start negotiations. They can either start moving jobs back and hiring LOCAL developers and LOWER C-level wages, or we are going to continue to play hard ball.

Yes millenia... we were banging rocks together in open offices called caves. But eventually we became civilized and stopped feeding from open troughs and learned to walk upright too.

You have to sell yourself through your projects.

Not really. They interview me BECAUSE of my tools and development. They see what I am developing and thats the main reason they want to interview me. I remember Apples excuse was that they didn't even fully support REST yet. Amazon interviewed me 3 different times, were completely confused and in the end , rejected because I don't have a degree... regardless of the fact I'm a founding team member. PayPal just couldn't find a team to put me on. As the saying goes, it would be a comedy it it wasn't a tragedy :)

I created API I/O Abstraction, APIObject and API Chaining, show them working in Grails API Toolkit, am developing them out in spring-boot and have been interviewed by Amazon, Apple, Paypal, Netflix, Comcast... literally everyone but Google. But have yet to land a job. Mainly because from what I am told, my work is great but too cutting edge, just what they need but would require a rewrite, fantastic but not in the tools they want, etc etc. I'm finding you can create tools that will change the world but even if everyone agrees that they would and that they need them, they may not be ready.

Yeh and real tech cities like the Bay Area don't use .Net either though. Oracle, Pivotal, Sun, Spring, Groov, Grails... they all dominate here.

The head of my Warcraft guild says the same thing.

Yep this is true. I have stood by this and been harassed by corporations for doing this but said 'If you are going to sue, do it... but you can't be calling me up every night at 3am and not call that harassment'. No one ever sues because they are afraid of those facts being raised before a court and scrutinized. But as long as you stick to FACTS and show no opinion in those facts (treat it as journalism), you are fine.

Thats not the way corporations use it though. Here in the Bay, an Indian corporation was illegally importing Indian workers to do his IT work, Microsoft lays off employees here in the Bay and Seattle and them goes before congress asking for more HB-1 Visas, etc. It's a scam to get cheap foreign labor. And if the labor isn't up to par, they have one US employee training them all knowing he is going to get laid off once he is done.

The silly thing is... they NEVER hold these companies accountable. When have you ever heard Microsoft pushing a patch for Windows early or an extra update merely because a customer was 'upset'. And Redhat is actually pretty bad about support; they only support a VERY SMALL set of very old releases (vs Ubuntu which keeps their releases pretty up to date). The excuse is 'it might break something' which is a pile of BS since it wouldn't be in the core supported repo. I would laugh if companies actually DID hold companies accountable because then no one would provide support. Its a silly house of cards that I call BULLSHIT on.

No... you blow off all meetings, say you are working from home and then show up three days later with a solution and look like a winner. That way they say 'leave him alone and don't bug him' and have everything run through a project manager. :) Of course there is blow back when a C-level gets involved

Take managers out of the equation and work gets done. Pretty simple.

Actually their methodology looks more like 'SOAP on a Rope'; It's method chaining done with a SOAP call. Has nothing to do with API Chaining from the looks of their explanation. There aren't even passing state for each api in the chain.