Because there is such a disconnect between HR and Engineering, you need to call set to some things straight about the job. Job listings are usually written to be as generic as possible. Â The job descriptions often contain incorrect or impossible requirements. Â It...
There are a lot of sites showing how to brand yourself, but few of them show the technical side of personal branding. This post will show how to do it. There are two general ways to start a personal branding site. The first is to sign up with a blogging site. You have...
Even before Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems, Java was at some serious crossroads. For some brief history, Oracle bought Sun in January of 2010. The move led to questions of why Oracle would buy Sun. The answer has come in the form of lawsuits and the...
In a previous post, I talked about the need to hire programmers who write good code. A recent report shows the costs of poorly written code. The 2010 CAST Worldwide Application Software Quality Study summary can be downloaded here. In the report, “good...
With one of this month’s meeting topics being improving productivity with Visual Studio 2010, I wanted to share some productivity tips that work in any IDE on Linux and Windows. One of my basic productivity premises is to keep my hands on the keyboard as much as...
