Articles tagged 'video'
An Interview with Collin Jilbert on Job Hunting for Junior Developers
What Do They Mean When They Ask if Rails is Dead?
I’m sure you’ve seen many articles asking, “is Rails dead?” and “is Ruby dead?”… Indeed, you’ll see them for any technology old enough to have a real userbase, even technologies that are still growing.
I’m not here today to answer whether Ruby or Rails is dead. Instead, I’m here to explain why people...
Coding Study Video: ASCII Art Faces
I talk about Coding Studies in a few places — my RubyConf talk and my book Mastering Software Technique,, for instance. But lots of “how-to” is never as powerful as just seeing something in action. So the video here shows me doing a simple coding study.
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An Interview with Andy Neely
I’ve been asking a lot of coders about how they got where they got. I have a personal interest in that long slump in the ‘senior engineer’ section of our career, but there are all sorts of fascinating stories along the way.
Andy Neely is on my...
Lessons in Basic Interview Technique from a Mock Interview
Her nose wrinkled. “I really hate job hunting.” He looked down, but her chicken curry seemed fine.
“How come?”
“The interviewer is trying to seem smarter than you. The questions are stupid and you’ve already heard them or you haven’t. It’s not like those are really things you do on the job.”
“Huh...