Posts Tagged: gcc


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May 14

Your Profile Tells Me You’re Perfect for this Amazing Podcast Opportunity

Bring up the topic of tech industry recruiting with any developer and you’re likely to get an ear-full: stories of recruiters treating candidates disrespectful, clueless recruiters who don’t know any of the acronyms, recruiters continuing to talk to you even after you’ve asked them to stop… the list goes on and on. In fact, it’s so prevalent, Twitter and Tumblr accounts have popped up just to make fun of recruiters. But why is recruiting so broken in our industry? Are all recruiters like that? And is there anything all of us—companies, recruiters, and candidates—can do to make the experience a bit better (and more efficient!) for everyone? Join us as we put recruiter Sam Whooley through the gauntlet for:

Your Profile Tells Me You’re Perfect for this Amazing Podcast Opportunity

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, EJ Ciramella, aka @eciramella, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d for the discussion, plus a the last couple of weeks in News & Views and a new tool tip!

Or, download Episode 41, or any of our previous shows!

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Tool Tip

Paul takes a look at the (currently under heavy development) FinalTerm


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Nov 13

Getting into Flow[Con] with Gene Kim and Jez Humble

What happens when you bring together practitioners from all corners of the software development arena, put them in a room, and discuss hardware and software scaling, what your ops teams should (and shouldn’t) do, how not to fool yourself again, how to delight your customers, how to tune your feedback cycles, how to get the executive staff to buy into it, how to make the outcomes better by embracing diversity, and wrap it all up with how not to turn it into an pie-in-the-sky religion? Well, you’d have FlowCon! Join us as we review the conference held last week in San Francisco with two of the program committee members, a couple of gentlemen who’ve both written a couple of little books you might’ve heard of before. Listen in as we attempt:

Getting into Flow[Con] with Gene Kim and Jez Humble

Join J. Paul Reed, aka @SoberBuildEng, Youssuf El-Kalay, aka @buildscientist, and Sascha Bates, aka @sascha_d as we discuss FlowCand a new Tool Tip!

Or, download Episode 30, or any of our previous shows!

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Tool Tip

Paul introduces us to Pipe Viewer, a (long-existing) Unix utility for providing information about the speed of your piped shell commands:

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What aspects of “flow” does your organization struggle with?

Which people and departments in your software development process are that sad, soggy piece of lettuce?

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