[ednc]

I agree with the previous response. As long as you create a company around the work (Even if it is just a good name and not a real entity, it still sounds better than "self-employed").

Get some apps (or GitHub contributions) out there during this time and you'll be fine.

If I saw something like this on a candidates resume, I'd be impressed (and jealous), and would probably spend most of the interview talking about these projects and your motivation behind them. My only concern would be that you'd leave in 6 months to go play with some new shiny technology our company was not currently using. So you'd need to frame your answers to satisfy that concern.

HTHs!

[kjackson]

Thanks! My previous work history is stable, but I definitely am not someone who would jump around, but thanks for that insight, it will be something that I keep in mind.