Ben Christen

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Here are some resources I highly recommend if you’re in a position to be interviewing candidates for engineering positions. Hiring Technical People is a great blog precisely about this topic. Subscribe to it. Also, read Joel‘s post, The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing. These two resources (plus maybe read How would you move Mt. Fuji) and […]

Interesting, I saw this on Ken Norton‘s blog – This is what being a “media company” means? He comments on this LA Times article, among others commenting on Yahoo! dealing with a Hollywood/Silicon Valley culture clash — mainly manifested in the big egos of hollywood execs. It’s pretty funny. Hard to say how much of […]

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Newsvine and How Big Companies Can Innovate Yup, pretty much sums it up. Great post.

What a great command name. And, tonight is the first time I’ve used it in a place where things could actually go wrong if I mistyped something. — Majorly wrong. p4 obliterate is the command in Perforce to completely remove a source tree — it removes all traces of its existence. It would certainly be […]

After the events and frustrations of the day and comparing that with the ideal . . . Creating Passionate Users . . . here’s a list of what I need as a developer (as of this moment): 1. Basics/Mandatory The basic tools required to get the job done. One machine, Licenses for the software I […]