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Here’s something for Monday morning…

37 signals have written a post about what Gordan Ramsay can teach software developers. Its a great post, with some good analogies. That made me think….

Forget Y-Combinator, forget Full Code Press, what about Hell’s Code ?!? Get developers to spend a number weeks going through a number coding challenges and eliminations until they win full funding for a start-up for a year ? Clients would wait around until the developers complete their prototypes, beta apps and full applications and give them a rating….

I thought it would be fun to imagine what Gordon Ramsay would say and do if he ran Hell’s Code ???

What would he yell at ???

• Developers who forgot to install a patch or module – (Forgot to add an ingredient)
• The application didn’t run (The dish is cold !)
• Didn’t test their code (Forgot to test the meat)
• Didn’t use CSS (Forgot to season the dish)

I can imagine Gordon Ramsay, if he found something wrong, he’d delete the code and tell them to start again. And if the developers made too many mistakes, he shutdown the coding and send all the clients home!

What else would Gordon Ramsay do ????

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