Corey Haines Continues His Journey at Acts as Conference 2009

by Robert Dempsey on January 19, 2009

corey haines Corey Haines Continues His Journey at Acts as Conference 2009

Corey Haines is a software journeyman. He travels from place to place pair-programming in exchange for room and board, interviewing developers on how they got started in programming, and contributing to open source projects. Anthony Eden from chi.mp has invited Corey to come to Central Florida, and we’ve happily donated a ticket to Acts as Conference 2009. Corey is looking for people to interview for his “How I Got Started In Programming” series while at AAC. He’ll be posting to the message board at the conference, so be sure to find him.

Register today for Acts as Conference 2009. $125 gets you two full days of awesome speakers including David Heinemeier Hansson and Yehuda Katz, food, prizes, and great networking. We’ll see you in February.

Great thanks goes out to our Platinum sponsors Engine Yard and New Relic for helping make Acts as Conference 2009 possible.

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  • @anonymous, I'm so glad you took the time to write your comment, but didn't find the testicular fortitude to include your name. Pussy.
  • anonymous
    I think Corey Haines has hit the nail on the head:

    1) Pick a line of work

    2) Wake up one morning and call yourself a crasftman in that line of work

    3) Don't proceed quietly, honing your craft every day to the satisfaction of what you claim to truly be interested in, rather (see #3)

    3) Begin travelling around and meeting with others who want to hear you pontificate. Once they have been in your presence, call them crafstmen too. (It gets better, see #4)

    4) Pontificate to everyone by blogging about the pontificating you've done with the person you just crowned as crasfman.

    Brilliant!

    The best thing is this... let's start doing this in other areas of science/business/arts/technology.

    Maybe for Doctors? Carpenters? Architects? Firemen? Astronauts?

    Maybe people on all of these fields do not really need to contribute other than travelling to other people's houses, pontificating, then granting them the title of crafstman as well.

    Awesome... I am healed and enlightened by Corey Haines.
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