Taking Our Time With Resumes. The Greatest Doormat Ever. - 03/22/2007 - 8:27 PM:

More resumes started coming in the instant I announced that Brandon had officially joined the team, and we were up at his house until 1:30 last night going over applicants. After some extensive discussions we now have a better idea of what languages we're intending to use, which makes narrowing down who we want to talk to a little easier; it's a combination of Java, PHP, and Perl. I must admit that Perl is Brandon's influence - I originally started learning programming on Perl before things like PHP existed, and I have bad memories of the experience. At the same time, it has some rapid prototyping advantages for what we're doing. Separately of that, we might be ready to introduce our next team member around Thursday of next week, but we'll see. We're not rushing anything.

I'm going to try to keep this update short, but there's something I really wanted to mention, because... well, it was a perfect gesture. I was downtown today at a pizza shop on 8th street called The Piehole, and I was talking to a fellow I met there named Jason. After hearing about my adventures, he produced two free pizza coupons from his wallet and handed them to me.

"Here," he said. "Give these to your programmers."

I thought that was an oddly fitting form of encouragement, because pizza has a strong history in nearly every technology success story in the United States, let me tell you. Pizza, and possibly Ramen Noodles, I don't know. :) I was going to say that it was important to every garage start-up, but as someone pointed out to me, we don't really have a garage yet. :) We're a living room start-up, for the time being.

Also! I didn't notice this the first time I went to Brandon's house, but his doormat reads, "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" I had to take a picture. :)