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Software Team Sociology: HIring Staff
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Ramblings of a Software Developer. Wednesday, May 14. His is a skill that most people believe they can do without training and yet most hiring managers do not get the results they desire. There are studies that show that unstructured interviews do worse than chance. Most interviewers would be better off tossing a coin). The authors of these studies generally then go on to recommend some form of structured interviewing technique. The biggest mistakes I see are :-. Talking and not listening. If there i...
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Software Team Sociology: March 2012
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Ramblings of a Software Developer. Sunday, March 18. Created an interactive book for new readers on the iPhone / iPad. Have released my first iOS App A is for Ant. Designing and implementing this App has been a fun exercise that has allowed me to get up to speed on Objective C and to explore a few ideas I have had about educational software. For $0.99 you get:. A beginner reader story book (with easy, medium, and hard versions) plus 13 games. Easy version of the Story. Medium version of the Story. Entrep...
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Software Team Sociology: Mob SIG Event on Mon 25th October
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Ramblings of a Software Developer. Friday, October 22. Mob SIG Event on Mon 25th October. Indows Phone 7 - has Microsoft got mobile right this time? This is Microsoft's latest approach at the mobile phone market. It is a drastic shift away from their previous attempts at trying to bring Windows XP feel into the palm of your hand. Join David Burela and Jarred Sargent as they give an overview of what the Windows Phone 7 platform is and how to get started with it. View my complete profile. Entrepreneurs - S...
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Software Team Sociology: September 2010
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Ramblings of a Software Developer. Wednesday, September 29. Ome time ago I sat in on two iteration meetings for an adjacent team. There was a possibility that I would join the team on a part time basis, a possibility that never eventuated. The project they were working on was fairly far along. They claimed they were using extreme programming, they claimed that they were agile, they claimed that they were using two week iterations. However. There was no learning in this process. Any mistakes made duri...
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eaten by a grue
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Eaten by a grue. Tales from the maze of twisty passages. This is a blog. random musings about code, games, family, work, whatever else springs to mind. don't worry momma, things won't get weird. 114;ob@eatenbyagrue.org. Just so you know. Friday, 22 march 2013. The google drive api doesn't know about paths, and that's bad. Over the last couple of weeks I've been working on integrating remote filestores into FastMail. When I developed our internal remote filestore abstraction I designed it with the idea th...
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Software Team Sociology: May 2014
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Ramblings of a Software Developer. Wednesday, May 14. His is a skill that most people believe they can do without training and yet most hiring managers do not get the results they desire. There are studies that show that unstructured interviews do worse than chance. Most interviewers would be better off tossing a coin). The authors of these studies generally then go on to recommend some form of structured interviewing technique. The biggest mistakes I see are :-. Talking and not listening. If there i...
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Software Team Sociology: Sticky Code
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Ramblings of a Software Developer. Monday, September 27. Was working with though some legacy code when I discovered that the original coder had. Avoided magic numbers by using Macros which was good. Defined the Macros in multiple places which was bad. I started asking myself "why" questions in order to discover the reasons behind this failure. Why has this duplication occurred? The original location of the definition was poorly chosen and subsequent coders where reluctant to move the definition. Entrepre...
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Software Team Sociology: Created an interactive book for new readers on the iPhone / iPad
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Ramblings of a Software Developer. Sunday, March 18. Created an interactive book for new readers on the iPhone / iPad. Have released my first iOS App A is for Ant. Designing and implementing this App has been a fun exercise that has allowed me to get up to speed on Objective C and to explore a few ideas I have had about educational software. For $0.99 you get:. A beginner reader story book (with easy, medium, and hard versions) plus 13 games. Easy version of the Story. Medium version of the Story. A Soft...
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Software Team Sociology: October 2011
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Ramblings of a Software Developer. Tuesday, October 4. Smoothing the rough edges from life. F you are like me, if you are like most people; you are plagued by a slew of irritations, annoyances and frustrations throughout your day. You ignore the frustration as you find workarounds and coping mechanism to overcome the road blocks placed in your way, in order to achieve your immediate goals. Why was I tired? Why was I stressed? I was not sleeping well". Why was I not sleeping well? I did not have I regular...
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Software Team Sociology: October 2010
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Ramblings of a Software Developer. Friday, October 22. Mob SIG Event on Mon 25th October. Indows Phone 7 - has Microsoft got mobile right this time? This is Microsoft's latest approach at the mobile phone market. It is a drastic shift away from their previous attempts at trying to bring Windows XP feel into the palm of your hand. Join David Burela and Jarred Sargent as they give an overview of what the Windows Phone 7 platform is and how to get started with it. Links to this post. View my complete profile.