I am Lead Software Engineer for The Motley Fool (http://www.fool.com/press/about.htm) a top US website focused on financial news and advice. I am taking part in an internal development program and one step is to visit other companies. I would like to learn any new practices we might want to try and pass on any we have found particularly helpful. These do not have to be just development processes; we also have a great office culture (http://culture.fool.com/) that we are always looking to improve! I would love to spend a morning, afternoon, or even a full day with you and your team especially if you are really proud of the work you do and the team you do it with. I hope to keep this pretty low key so I don’t impact anyone’s day too greatly.
Our shop is mostly ASP.Net with some old classic ASP thrown in for color. We have web forms, ASP.Net MVC, and all three view engines in play. Our builds and releases are highly automated, mostly done on a one week schedule but we do release as needed. My team has recently started to develop a new site using django, which has been a fun experience learning puppet, buildout, and fabric. I would love to visit with your team if you’re running a larger website on django!
I hope this can be a fun time, I can’t promise any business changing ideas but I can promise a cool Fool baseball cap and lunch! I will be in town a couple days before PyCon (March 5th and 6th)! Please feel free to email me at mgurtzweiler@fool.com to coordinate.
Thanks!