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I know I owe you a blog post1, and today I actually have the time, energy and inclination to write it. It's not often those three factors coincide.
I have already done the Great Reveal about the job I am doing now that I'm no longer at JetBrains.
The question I wanted to answer (if only to remind myself later in life!) is why?
Continue reading "Gradle Gradle Gradle, with Gradle we’re going to play"Since I have a tendency to bang on every now and again about how we, as developers, could do better in managing our careers (for example, by creating CVs that don't suck, and by staying ahead of the curve), Dave Thomas asked me to speak for a mere 50 minutes on the subject at GOTO Aarhus, a talk I wasn't enormously happy with as there was no way to cover a lifetime of hard-fought experience in such a short time. Dave seemed to like something in it though, as he gave me the opportunity to present the topic again at YOW last December, and this time I think I managed to distill the important points into the (still ridiculously short) time allotted.
Please give me any feedback you have.
I recognise there are many many more topics I could cover, so I'd better start making a list. Suggestions?
For no reason other than LinkedIn communications are starting to irritate me, here's my personal LinkedIn Etiquette guide. Feel free to disagree with it all.
I had an interesting discussion last night at the LJC developer sessions, and it's a topic that comes up again and again:
When you're applying for a job at LMAX, your CV (or résumé, for our American readers) usually comes through me and I decide whether to call you for a technical phone screen.
I'm going to let you into a secret.