That's a pretty brilliant idea!<p>Sounds like something I'd love to try some day. Of course, two days—or even fourteen days—at a single company isn't enough to get much programming done. So I suspect just trying to do normal programming would not really be in the interest of the companies or me.<p>However, it sounds like a great chance to share some of my more specialized, esoteric knowledge, like functional programming, FRP, verification or synthesis: things which might be useful for a startup or project, but tend to languish away in research labs or deep inside large corporations.<p>In the future, if I'm ever in a real position to try this—I guess if I get better known and learn more interesting things to share—I'll definitely consider trying something like this.
Any of the host companies willing to share details of the projects that were worked on? Quite curious!<p>Edit: Also wondering about the general experience of getting good work done with someone new to the team/project in just a couple days.
Once again you've inspired me! (First time was your posts about getting started in consulting. Very helpful!) What a great idea.<p>Edit: Whoa, brain is spinning, ideas are mixing. James Altucher (Choose Yourself, author) gives away ideas to network, create value, and ultimately generates business as a result. Something is coming alive in my head. Cool.
I have to admit I'm a little sad this article wasn't referring to the adventure game series The Journeyman Project: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journeyman_Project" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journeyman_Project</a>