{"id":1003,"date":"2011-03-09T14:15:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2011-03-09T14:19:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:19:40","slug":"jim-barcelona-ruby-rockstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/jim-barcelona-ruby-rockstar\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Barcelona, Ruby Rockstar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The term “rockstar” is much maligned in tech circles when applied to job descriptions.<\/p>\n

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Another sentiment told with utter sarcasm:<\/p>\n

Any job description which contains the word, “rockstar,” must also disclose the salary offer.<\/em><\/p>\n

-Steve<\/p>\n

@jangosteve<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And to round things out:<\/div>\n
\n
There’s nothing more ridiculous than job ads requesting a Ruby rock star. — Giles Bowkett<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Since the term is so maligned, I’ve decided to take it. Like a day trader attracted to something at it’s lowest buy point, I’m attracted to the term, “Rockstar.”<\/div>\n
My guitar skills aren’t that great. If anybody should be worthy of the term of Ruby rockstar it should be Zed Shaw<\/a> for meeting the terms figuratively and literally. He plays guitar in an awesome way in the streets and he’s a great coder.<\/div>\n
I wrote an email to the SF Ruby Meetup List in jest that was written in the alter ego of a Ruby rockstar<\/a>. I was poking fun of a combination of stereotypes dealing with coders with egos and rockstars with egos.<\/div>\n
The businessman in me thinks it’s such a shame that folks don’t own up to the moniker. Since others won’t; I will. I’m Jim Barcelona, Ruby rockstar.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The term “rockstar” is much maligned in tech circles when applied to job descriptions. Another sentiment told with utter sarcasm: Any job description which contains the word, “rockstar,” must also disclose the salary offer. -Steve @jangosteve And to round things out: There’s nothing more ridiculous than job ads requesting a Ruby rock star. — Giles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ruby","category-techbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}