Code Monkeyism

Programming is hard by Stephan Schmidt

March 1, 2007

Leaving SnipSnap :-(

Hello, I’ll be leaving my employer Fraunhofer FIRST in April.

This means I’ll also leave SnipSnap. After years as one of the founders and one of the leads this makes me sad, because I invested a lot of ideas and emotions into the project. As I created the name, the logo and some of the core it feels like my baby.

But over the last years it was clear that my employer had different plans and directions for the project and as he owns the complete IP, I’m relieved to finally finish the struggle and close this chapter of my life. Thanks to all developers, contributers and users over the years for their encouragement and positive feedback.

I’m currently investigating Groovy und Javascript. We’ll see what I do next, be surprised.

About the author: Stephan Schmidt is currently a team manager at ImmobilienScout24 in Berlin. Stephan has been working as a head of development and CTO. He has used a lot of different technologies in the last 20 years including Java, Rails and Python. Stephans main field of interest is maintainablity and productivity in software development. Want to know more? All views are only his own.

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