I was talking to a recruiter the other day (I’ve been contacted a whole lot lately for some reason) and she asked about the reference to “mensa” in my extracurricular/other section.  I’m not even 100% sure why I put that there – I haven’t updated that section in a while.  I asked her if it [...]

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I got a call the other day from a recruiter looking to get me to move to the US Virgin Islands.  I was a bit curious where she’d found my resume, so I looked in my logs to see the referrer info.  She’d typed in lamp software architect – no quotes or anything.  My resume [...]

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So, I’ve now been at my new workplace (opensourceriskmanagement) for a week.  Well, not quite.  I was only *there* (in Durham) for 2.5 days last week.  Since last Wednesday evening, I’ve been in San Jose, CA, attending meetings with current and prospective clients, and doing code audits.  My Black Duck experience today was less than [...]

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The guys at worked pitched in and got me a custom-designed cake.  This pretty much summed up my 22 months here.  <voice=”dr_nick”>Thanks, everybody!</voice>

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There comes a time when you move on from one work environment to the next.  I recently had that time come, and I accepted a position with Open Source Risk Management.  This was one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make careerwise, for a number of reasons.  On the practical side, it’s a much [...]

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I’ll probably write more about this later.  Things have only wrapped up here now, but the overwhelming impression was definitely positive.  The polish, energy, excitement and ideas here was fantastic.  It only brings me down a bit to realize that many of these ideas and concepts won’t translate back to work.  A former colleague was [...]

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I’m still working on my PHP job hunter book project, which is getting closer to completion.  This post doesn’t have much to do with that except to give an update, then segue in to a related bit.  I just stumbled on this post from a few years ago.  What I found interesting was the differing [...]

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This article explains the whole thing in more detail, but the first line says it all:
When it comes to vacation, Netflix has a simple policy: take as much as you’d like. Just make sure your work is done.
Wow.  Quite a forward thinking company, imo.  Or perhaps this policy will be shown to be the [...]

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There was a lot of hoo-ha last week about Circuit City laying off 3400 employees.  I found a local paper from EMU had a story about it as well, which gives a SE Michigan perspective ($10 is a ‘living wage’ in Ann Arbor, apparently).  And this morning driving back from Chicago there was a radio [...]

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I’m posting a repeat of this request because this blog feed was recently accepted in to the planet-php.net blog aggregator/feed thingy, and likely a new group of people will see this and be able to respond.  To that end, I’m calling for people to visit http://www.phpjobbook.com/survey to answer questions about their PHP job hunting and [...]

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