#career (67 links)
- A career ending mistake — Bitfield Consulting bitfieldconsulting.com
I want to talk about another kind of career ending mistake, one that affects more than just the unlucky few. Indeed, it's a mistake we're probably all making right now. And that's not planning the end of our careers.
- Small tech scattered-thoughts.net
Role models matter. So I made a list of small companies that I admire. Neither giants nor startups - just people making a living writing software on their own terms.
- Being Glue — No Idea Blog noidea.dog
Your job title says "software engineer", but you seem to spend most of your time in meetings. You'd like to have time to code, but nobody else is onboarding the junior engineers, updating the roadmap, talking to the users, noticing the things that got dropped, asking questions on design documents, and making sure that everyone's going roughly in the same direction. If you stop doing those things, the team won't be as successful. But now someone's suggesting that you might be happier in a less technical role. If this describes you, congratulations: you're the glue.
- Not Saying Winter is Coming, But Where’s Your Coat? facebook.com
- The Developer's Dystopian Future the-pastry-box-project.net
<blockquote>I used to be really excited about JavaScript. I worked for five years running an open source project that was 95% JavaScript. I still never felt like I had a great handle on the tech stack though, and my understanding of so much of the new JS hotness (ES6, Angular, Ember, Shadow DOM, Module systems, etc) feels woefully lightweight. So many jobs seem to ask for AngularJS knowledge now. I took a few stabs at it, but the frequent BC breaks and plans for 2.0 have almost entirely soured me on the framework. My interest in rich client-side apps has almost entirely reversed, and now I’m more interested in doing good ol’ server rendering with the occasional side of progressive enhancement, just like we did it in 2004.</blockquote>
- What is a Technical Product Manager, Anyway? - MindTheProduct mindtheproduct.com
- Unicorn Jobs | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- front-end-ops smashingmagazine.com
_thenittygritty: Front-End Ops by @SlexAxton http://t.co/MUtey1gK2H
- Coding is priority number five - bitquabit bitquabit.com
Team leads are different. Your job, should you accept it, is to become what I’ve lovingly dubbed Shit Umbrella. Your goal is to find all of the peripheral stuff involved in getting the product out the door—important stuff, such as making sure the delivery schedule for the new servers makes sense for when you want to ship the product that needs them, or taking customer calls at 11 PM on a Sunday because their account quit working and they want to know why they should keep paying you, or figuring out when doing features the sales and support teams want makes financial sense—and then coming back and presenting a focused direction to all the developers so that they can get the features written without worrying about how they actually ship. You switch from doing the building yourself to enabling others to build stuff on your behalf.
I think we’re seeing the emphasis shift from valuing trivia to valuing tools. There’s a new set of baseline skills required in order to be successful as a front-end developer, and developers who don’t meet this baseline are going to start feeling more and more left behind as those who are sharing their knowledge start to assume that certain things go without saying.
- What, exactly, is a Product Manager? | MindTheProduct mindtheproduct.com
- Blogging Innovation » How to Hire and Manage Consultants business-strategy-innovation.com
Useful from the other side i.e. how to be hired as a consultant and not suck.
- Joblighted joblighted.com
A single page jobs aggregator
- Alex Payne — Don't Be A Hero al3x.net
Heroes are damaging to a team because they become a crutch. As soon as you have someone who’s always willing to work at all hours, the motivation from the rest of the team to produce reliable, trouble-free software drops. The hero is a human patch.
- Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Of Hamsters, Feature Creatures and Missed Opportunities – my talk at Fronteers 2009 wait-till-i.com
"How some of the traits we have as developers keep us from evolving and our market from maturing" plus some good stuff on YQL.
- Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web - paulcarvill.com paulcarvill.com
"A [front end developer] is responsible for everything that sits on the client side of the web stack — the content, presentation and behaviour layers. Few other roles touch so many other key aspects of a business as does a [front end developer]’s." Amen to that.
- Milton Glaser - Ten Things I Have Learned miltonglaser.com
"So, is Interaction Design a dead-end job? As an expertise, no. But as a discrete service offering or a career path, I say absolutely." Slightly inflammatory; read on for the significant caveat.
"With limited influence, unlimited hands in the pie, a low barrier to critique, and the perception of triviality, frontend engineers are the janitors of software development. Rather than cleaning up trash, the boulder they toil beneath is skew: the distance between team member's conceptions of a project." Pies, pies, the sky is all pies.
- squawkfox » 6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck squawkfox.com
Useful reminder.
Bit of a scare-story headline but some decent points here.
- Roome Consulting roome.co.uk
Digital media recruiters near Old Street.
- An Entirely Other Day - Wide vs. Deep blog.eod.com
Some people are naturally wide, some people are naturally deep. But the assumption is, in most business contexts, that you can — and should want to — jump between the two as the need or situation dictates. But this is a load of crap.
- Why I won't work on another campaign microsite - Dan Eastwell thoughtballoon.co.uk
or why I won't, until the money runs out...
The digital skills that job seekers must have and that hiring organizations demand are varied, nuanced and cutting-edge.
- 25 Reasons You Didn’t Get The Gig : Freelance Folder freelancefolder.com
Some personal observations, reasons I probably would click away, not hire someone, not call back.
Despite waves of consolidation across the ad-agency business, there remains a healthy bunch of independent digital shops doing everything from search optimization to building web interfaces to simply doing damn good creative.
- A List Apart: Articles: Findings From the Web Design Survey alistapart.com
The first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
Seek to be a double/triple/quadruple threat.
- George Dinwiddie’s blog » Studying patterns for Fearless Change blog.gdinwiddie.com
3×5 notecards for studying the patterns in the book, Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
- 10 mistakes managers make during job interviews articles.techrepublic.com.com
"Conducting effective interviews requires a balance of instinct, insight, and some solid preparation. It also helps if you don't make certain blunders, such as monopolizing the conversation, asking leading questions, or applying too much (or too little) p
- Geek | Manager » Invest in Yourself blog.geekmanager.co.uk
"In terms of your career, this means that you should be setting aside time for training and development — some of which is focused on making you better at your current job and some of which is focused on getting you towards the next step in your career
- Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Refactoring Your Career « webworkerdaily.com
Here’s a catalog of career refactorings you can apply to help move yourself towards your own vision of what you want to be doing next.
- Transitioning from User Experience to Product Management - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Becoming a product manager is a logical move for many UX practitioners, as it requires many of the same skills, traits, and competencies involved in crafting a user experience. Additionally, product management is a common role within many organizations, m
Point 5: " Web development is a precise field. Leaving out one character of code can render an entire website useless. Good web developers always focus on making sure they understand and deliver things as accurate as possible."
Some information [regarding what] people are actually expecting from a good web developer.
- How to Change the World: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn blog.guykawasaki.com
A top-ten list of ways to increase the value of LinkedIn.
- Authentic Jobs ~ Full-time and freelance job opportunities for designers and developers authenticjobs.com
Authentic Jobs is a targeted destination for standards-aware designers and developers and the companies seeking to hire them.
Don't be afraid, little sufferer of ADD.... there is hope. Get the f*ck out of the boxes!
- Software by Rob : Becoming a Better Developer Part 9: How to Criticize a Software Developer Without Getting Punched softwarebyrob.com
The #1 rule of good criticism is be specific.
- The best way to professionally raise my rates? | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
Independent contractor filter: what is the best way to simultaneously raise my rates and not lose the business?