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Anecdote #1:

I’m the guy who came up to you after the Tek-X talk and mentioned I was emailed about a position while you were speaking. I got the job, in no small part because of my experience writing WordPress plugins and my involvement with the Drupal and PHP communities. I was able to show that only could I “talk the talk” (and very well, I might add), but my open source code was proof that I could “walk the walk” too – actually delivering code that solves problems and supporting it.

Anecdote #2:

Last time I had to hire a programmer, we asked for code samples and were shocked at what we saw. Only a few people had anything they could bring in. The ones that had something usually brought in a few simple objects that did basic CRUD operations. The job went to the one guy with an active Github profile and projects we could see.