[tikhonj]

That's a pretty brilliant idea!

Sounds like something I'd love to try some day. Of course, two days—or even fourteen days—at a single company isn't enough to get much programming done. So I suspect just trying to do normal programming would not really be in the interest of the companies or me.

However, it sounds like a great chance to share some of my more specialized, esoteric knowledge, like functional programming, FRP, verification or synthesis: things which might be useful for a startup or project, but tend to languish away in research labs or deep inside large corporations.

In the future, if I'm ever in a real position to try this—I guess if I get better known and learn more interesting things to share—I'll definitely consider trying something like this.

[Nanzikambe]

Actually you can get an amazing amount done in two days.

For example:

  * A company looking for a prototype of something that they wouldn't otherwise have the capacity to do
  * Refactors
  * Code audits
  * Four eyes or rapid/agile development partner for a staff member
  * Junior dev mentoring/training on a specifc aspect
  * Presentation of a technology that might be relevant for which they lack inhouse expertise
  * And of course simple app dev. Many inhouse tools can be written in just a few hours.

And so on.