The weekend started well, I have the authorisation I need to hire 4 top notch developers, I send out a short interview test to the agencies, and am told they have some good people. The test is simple ... to write a small application that can tell the difference in days between 2 dates. There are only 5 basic requirements: · It should ...

Scott Hanselman started yet another great debate ... on Ruby and why it is the '***'  ... Today I came across a great artice (via Frans Bouma), called In Defence of the RDBMS - a very well written debunk of a number or database theorist's views.  The two get mentioned together as I loved the comment half way through the ...

  Scott started it ... then Oren replied ... and I'm bored so I thought I would reply :)   To be honest .. I don't think MS is listening to the BIG companies, so much as it is busy trying to attract the LAMP brigades ... Switching to MS development isn't easy from a LAMP background, and a *large* percentage of LAMP ...

"Can you tell me some of the development blogs you regularly read, and why you think they are of value?" If someone names the 'gurus' or 'glitterati' of the development blogshphere, it is damn likely they are also a good developer. IF (like most people I ask), they never read blogs, and can't tell me who the key ...

What a piece of genius from Scott Hanselman:Here's the deal, when I hire someone, I'm looking for them to be tall. A boss told me once that he just wanted his programmers to be tall, because when you're putting together a basketball team, you have to remember that you can't teach height. Read the full post

Why is it that when I have interviewed people for developer positions, they can't answer the most basic of questions? Inspired by a blog elsewhere by Jeff Atwood I thought I would list a few of my basic interview questions on C# and .NET ... he advocates a simple FizzBuzz test, which is as good a basic test as any when facing the interviewee, ...