Tool development as a job applicant filter?
falien: I'm young, still gaining real-world experience, and fully aware of the fact that I have very few of the right answers (let alone all of them). Why would I go to the trouble of developing my own tools on a regular basis when other people who are much better at building the tools I need have already done so, and groups have put more effort into them than I will ever be able to. I look around for the best tool to do what I need and very rarely discover that I need to build my own to get what I want.In my opinion, a much better question along those lines would be what tools you use that you consider indispensable, why, and how do they compare to the alternatives in your opinion.