Last November I was laid off from my job. Haven't been able to find a new one, so I've been teaching myself to code in the meantime. It's a completely different field but I'm in love with it. :) I come from a mixed business/finance/IT (Win sys admin) background. I've run several self-employed small businesses which weren't scalable.

Amazoned about $400 in coding books and am chewing through them nicely. Struggled for months but eventually built a partial working prototype for my startup, and know that I can finish and launch it. If it fails miserably, well damn, I'm going to walk away smarter than I've ever been before, and am going to be well positioned to go on and do it all over again.

Definitely looking for a partner or two in the Boston, MA area. Ideally someone with experience in, or willingness to learn:

- Python w/Django 1.x

- Windows App development (C# I think???)

- Linux/Apache/PostgreSQL Stack

- Objective-C w/Cocoa (App Kit) | PyObjC

But I'm not set in-stone on the technologies. Whatever is easiest and most time/cost-effective. Ping me if you're interested and we can discuss further. I don't bite, except for apple's. Contact info here: dave-gallagher.net

"Find out what you can not do, and then go, and do it!"