First Hire
We’ve just recently completed our first full time development hire for Cirrusworks! This increases our stateside My experience was not entirely what I expected so I wanted to share my notes about the process. I used two types of job ads, and posted to three different boards. I’m interested to hear other’s experiences in today’s [...]
Developer Networking Events
I just got back from an ExtJS meetup going over some of the new ExtJS 4 features. Aside from the NOVA Python group, this was the first developer focused meetup I’ve been at in awhile. The most striking part of the meetup was that nobody introduced themselves. People showed up right on time, and everyone [...]
Keeping Freelance Programmers Happy
I have been getting a extreme amount of work accomplished over the past few months, and apparently real work and blog posts are inversely related. So I wanted to try to share at least a small something. I have been working with many freelancers, and have been acting as a freelancer, for a little while [...]
My First Day Without Code
I didn’t write a single line of code today. Well not really today, but thats how I started this post near the end of December. I’m interested to go through it again and try to figure out how well things turned out after I stopped coding all day every day and had to start with [...]
How Do I Say No To Sales
The Problem After a pretty horrible day of missed deadlines, botched communications, and general grumpiness I’ve decided the only way to save the night is a lot of Dogfish Head. Today I was actually forced to say “no… No…. NO!” repeatedly many a whole lotta several times to a deadline. I feel like I’m being [...]
