codevader

We’re a small company. 4 people. And we plan to keep it that way - we see 6-7 people as the maximum size that we’d ever like to grow to.

A lot of the time we pitch against one-man shows. We obviously can deliver a better set of resources than most one-man operations, but we’re still small so we’re pretty responsive and able to give personal attention.

Then sometimes we pitch against bigger software development companies. They range from 30-200+ programmers. What do you get from them? Solidity for one. Mostly big companies aren’t going to disappear overnight. But you also become just another client.

“Basically a small company has a flavor to it, whereas a big company is sort of like checking into the Bellagio in Las Vegas. It’s a nice hotel but it has 5,000 rooms, so don’t expect anybody to remember your name. A small company is more like a bed and breakfast. You’re going to have a great time because you get along with people and it’s a much friendlier experience. You don’t really mind that the bathroom is down the hall because the people made a special vegetarian meal for you and then showed you around town. On the other hand, you might be at a bed and breakfast where they have weird leather implements and lots of cats.”

– From A Conversation with Joel Spolsky in ACM Queue.

We like small.

This is the blog of the team at Codevader. We plan to post on subjects ranging from the obvious - Ruby on Rails and Agile methods, to more general topics that cross the minds of any team at a web development company. We’ll see what that means in the months ahead.

If you’re looking for my personal blog you’ll find that at www.nickcoyne.com. I’ll stop posting technical topics there (like there were a lot of them) and put those here instead.

When I find some time I’ll also apply some design-love to the blog, but for now we’ll make do with the default Wordpress theme.