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Here I am taking a shot at shorter form writing. Watch me write! The biggest job/career related error I made this past year was going against my own policy and talking to a company I had a bad feeling about from the beginning. I’ve actually known about this company for a long time and think […]
While I’ve been consulting independently for slightly more than a year, I’ve been doing so under the Palatino Consulting banner for exactly one year, this week. It’s been going pretty well, thanks for asking. I’m at the point now where I’m starting to think about whether or not I want to expand this business to […]
Sadly, I won’t be sharing a bunch of funny anecdotes from my time on the interview trail. While that might be fun, there are some bigger trends that I wanted to talk about after having reviewed dozens of job descriptions and talking to dozens of people at one level or another over the month of […]
I’m late with this post. I’ve been busy! Finishing this post has been tougher than I imagined it would be. Starting a new job is tough enough, adding in two visits to New York, one to Toronto and getting ready for HTML5 Live have made it even tougher. I think I’m through the toughest part […]
On more than one occasion I’ve been interviewed by someone and they’ve told me, point blank, that they “didn’t prepare at all for this” or “didn’t even look at your resume.” Really? While this is lame no matter what industry or role, with front end engineers it’s incredibly frustrating. Throughout the “Ajax era” any other […]