Archive for May, 2007

Interviewing programmers 101 - Part 2

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In my first article I covered the actual interview process. In this next part I now take a step back and look at how you find the most talented programmers when you have hundreds of CV’s and you don’t […]

21May2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued

Scratch is fun for children, young and old

I was really pleased to read about Scratch for the first time today. I started programming when I was 9 years old on a ZX81 which was at the time instantly accessible. Part of the reason for this was due to the fact that to get any entertainment out of the machine you had to […]

20May2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

links for 19-05-2007

It has been a quiet couple of days for development news, so these are my top picks from the last week.
A really good top 10 of the things clients say to web agencies. My favorite being “why am I not #1 in Google“.
Nightmare web design clients

A fantastic rant about Digg and Reddit (and a few […]

19May2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

PowerEdge 1900 Unboxing

I was woken up this morning at some ungodly hour by a lost delivery man from Dell. We move into our new offices in 1 week time and so I was having all the new equipment delivered to my house. One slight problem with this is that it is in the middle of nowhere. And […]

18May2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Things I need but don’t know if they exist

I have recently noticed that my online existence could be greatly improved with a few simple tools (well I think they are simple.) Here is a list of things that would make my life easier.
Bookmark Search Plug-in (Firefox) That gives you the Ability to quickly search within my bookmarks. It would Firstly search within the […]

17May2007 | Nick Halstead | 5 comments | Continued

Interviewing programmers 101 - Part 1

I thought I would write up my thoughts on recruitment, and specifically recruitment of programmers. The reason for this is that I am going through a recruitment cycle at the moment. My new company is a startup and it has made me re-evaluate how I recruit.
In the past
Many years ago when I worked for Argonaut […]

15May2007 | Nick Halstead | 11 comments | Continued
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