Tuesday, December 2nd my company laid off about 10% of its employees, 13 people. It was a hard day for everyone, we watched a lot of great people leave. To make it ever worse 2 of the 13 were fellow developers, both highly skilled (as some would put it, ninjas) and all around cool guys. I wanted to do something to help, everyone did, but this came down from high above and none of us, no matter how much we wanted, were in a position to change it.
Not knowing what to do I came in to work like normal today to find a new blog post by one of my coworkers, Kumar McMillan. He put up a post, similar to this, letting his readers know of these 2 highly talented developers here in Chicago who are probably looking for a job. I almost smacked myself for not having this idea on my own, but instead decided to write this entry. If any of my readers (all 6 of you) know places hiring Ruby, Python, Javascript, developers (in fact I’m sure both these guys are skilled in far more than those languages) let me know, send me an email or find me on LinkedIn or at Working With Rails.