Phone Screenings with Mind Manager
To 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 MorePhone Interviews
My 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 MoreWhere’s Dave
Since 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 MoreMatt Got Married
So, Matt Berther went and tied the knot. It was a great wedding up in Stanley, Idaho, and the wife and I decided to make a good weekend trip out of it. The grandparents came from Seattle to watch the kids and this gave us the chance to go up on the motorcycle. It was […]
Read MoreHiring Good People
There is no greater contributing factor to the success of your business than hiring the right people. Joel Spolsky has a great article on hiring great programmers, and while this is a large part of the equation it is not the whole solution. There are some non-tangible questions that I believe need to be answered before allowing […]
Read MoreMatt Gives Up
Matt Berther is getting married this weekend in Stanely, Idaho. It should be really fun. The wife and I are pawning the children off on the grandparents and we are heading to Stanely on the motorcycle. I am really looking forward to this, as it is the first time that Eleanor and I have ever […]
Read MoreTop 10 Dot-Bombs
This is a fun article if you were paying attention at the time. MSN has a list of the biggest dot-bombs of the late 90s. http://msn-cnet.com.com/4520-11136_1-6278387-1.html?part=msn-cnet&subj=re_6278387-1&tag=msn_home
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