You can now access your CV/tag cloud at YOU.cvpow.com, and share links to your resume with dozens of social networks. Mine is at mariya.cvpow.com.
I’m looking for feedback: how would YOU like to use your CV data? Export it as an RSS feed? Export to Word so you can send it to old-fashioned headhunters? If I [...]
Hi all! Besides a fresh look for Robozen.com, I’ve got a shiny new app for you to play with: cvPow.com. Ever wonder what your CV looks like as a tag cloud? Sign up and see for yourself.
I hammered the app out during this weekend after more than a year(!) of procrastinating on updating my CV. [...]
Last year, I wrote about one secret of successful project managers: strategic lying. If your programmer tells you a task will be done in three days, it will be done in a week, and you should tell your client it will be done in two weeks, to be safe. Conversely, if your customer tells you [...]
Unsurprisingly, my feelings towards projects vary. The ones I hate involve labyrinths of legacy code, infrastructure nightmares, and new requirements to turn the Tower of Pisa into the Empire State. The ones I love give me a blank canvas on which I can paint an MVC masterpiece after lovingly drafting a throng of specs. Also, [...]
Some people have asked where I’ve disappeared to. Well, it’s been a long, dark winter over here in Sweden, and I’ve been [hibernating/trying not to commit suicide/coding/growing my company]. Mostly that last one. I’ve struck two long-term development deals with iAmplify and Digipoint, hired another programmer, and then pretty much went to sleep hoping that [...]
This is not immediately obvious those who charge a flat rate per project, instead of by the hour. But unless you track your hours, you know neither how much you’re making on your current project, nor the fair price to charge for a comparable project in the future. Remember, $2000 might sound like a pretty [...]
There’s no hope for the web, is there? Most sites are poorly made and look like oatmeal on a baby bib. Others are developed cleanly by someone whose code doesn’t suck only to face another hurdle: the idiot copywriter.
The fun at this jewelry outfit begins with the domain name: steveclarkweb.com. I admit, it’s hard to [...]
Verdage has snagged an office in Stockholm’s trendy “SoFo” area (I know, I know *rolls eyes*). It’s next to a Harley Davidson repair shop, so I have no doubt that our assets are safe and sound here. Come visit us at Bondegatan 17 and receive a FREE cup of coffee!
Ah yes, and at long last, [...]
When interviewing a programmer, check that he is: a) good at coding, and b) bearable. Chat about his experience, let him scribble an algorithm to reverse a string, and wish him luck. Right?
Hell no. Tihomir Nakov just released a list of dumbass questions Google asks during its job interviews.
They include:
How many golf balls can fit [...]
Everyone makes mistakes, but only idiots don’t learn from them. That’s why we laugh at Germans for starting a huge war two decades after losing one. And that’s why I’m laughing at the vast number of idiots out there with money to invest in stupid ideas. It’s like they completely forgot what happened in 2001. [...]