I just installed Intelli J IDEA from Jet Brains and am currently downloading the 1.4.2 Java SDK. My universe is tilting on its axis.
Read MoreTo support my 30 minute phone screening sessions for developer candidates, I have come to rely heavily on Mind Manager 5.0. If you have not used Mind Maps before, they are an amazing way to organize information and are appropriate to all sorts of tasks. In order to repeatedly document my calls with candidates, I […]
Read MoreMy technique for interviewing developer candidates begins with a scheduled 30 minute screening phone call. This usually takes a pile of 10 resumes to 3 and allows us to bring the remaining 3 people in for genuine interviews. Tangentially Related Diatribe I would like to mention quickly here that I cannot believe how much people […]
Read MoreSince starting this blog about 2 years ago, I have wanted to write the type of articles that need code samples and are cheekily clever techniques involving curly braces. I would guess that 1 in 50 of my posts actually contain this type of content. This causes me to genuinely admit that I no longer […]
Read MoreFor our recent bike trip to Stanley, the wife and I wanted to be able to carry on a conversation with each other on the Tiger. We first tried a set of Motorola walkie-talkies with VOX throat mikes and ear buds. I will be returning them later this week. In 45 minutes of trying to […]
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