He deserves a LOT more than he gets. He wrote all the administrative stuff for SI and it's brilliant! Since he's such an adept programmer and enjoys doing it, we're slowly finding a level that works for both of us so he can do as much programming as he wants, but when it comes to User Interface and supporting queries, he does it my way, for the sake of standardization.
What's great about working with him is that there are areas he's particularly strong in where I'm not so strong, and vice-versa. He can write SQL queries to do things I'd be unable to figure out in SQL and instead use ASP to do the same thing more slowly. But I've got him beat on ASP and some of the more esoteric aspects of tweaking both ASP and SQL for maximum speed.
I suspect he's like me, though, in that he enjoys programming when he wants to and hates it when he has to. It's part of my job title and why I'm paid the big bux, so I just have to bite the bullet and do it.
Otherwise, I'd have him doing ALL the programming and just letting me come in after the fact to tweak better performance out of it.
Edit: Matt's inclusion in the geek loop is equally synergistic. He can't write code worth a damn, but he understands DNS and TCP/IP, operating systems, etc so well that I don't even bother learning them. He always has it covered.
