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12 Challenging Steps to Being a Better Interviewer
→: 12 Challenging Steps to Being a Better InterviewerNotes from my @TheLeadDev talk on interviewing. Do you follow the discussion about technical interviews? I find it interesting, and worthwhile. I think we kind of tiptoe around two fundamental problems though. 1. Most technical interviewers are bad. 2. We think that technical interviews teach us more than they do. Today we’re going to talk…
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#OreDev – Starting Up: Building Great Products with Small Teams – Jan Erik Solem
→: #OreDev – Starting Up: Building Great Products with Small Teams – Jan Erik SolemMy notes from Jan Erik Solem‘s talk at Oredev. I’m not sure how widely applicable these takeaways are, clearly this is working for them (or was when I saw this talk in 2014) but I would not extrapolate too much from that. Overall Team Guidelines: Small team with high performers. Independent learners. Doers – who manage…
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#iOSDevUK: Natasha Murashev – The Swift Architect
→: #iOSDevUK: Natasha Murashev – The Swift ArchitectMy notes from @NatashaTheRobot‘s talk at iOSDevUK. 2014 – when swift came out. Everyone was like what’s going on? People clapped but hesitant. Some people were unhappy. Especially people who had just learned Objective-C. Scary time. Everything I know has changed. Genius with swift is it looks very familiar. If you have worked with any…
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Panel Discussions and Dissent
→: Panel Discussions and DissentSpeaker panels can be a bit overwhelming, because there end up being so many people on stage, which makes them a special problem. We did an interesting thing for the speaker panel at 360iDev which I think is worth talking about. Any question was supposed to be taken by only one panelist, and then there…
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Technically Speaking – From Conference Proposal to Submit
→: Technically Speaking – From Conference Proposal to SubmitChiu-Ki and I ran out first in person Technically Speaking event at 360iDev which was super exciting. It was great to meet some of our subscribers in person and go into more depth on some of the topics we cover in the newsletter. The topic was about putting together your first speaking proposal, and included:…
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Uncomfortable Conversations About Money
→: Uncomfortable Conversations About MoneyWhen it comes to speaking at a conference which involves some travel costs, there are four* main options: The conference pays. The company you work for pays. You pay. You don’t go. The Conference Pays I think this, announced up front, is the most inclusive option because it means you don’t have to talk about…
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The Story Behind The Newsletter
→: The Story Behind The NewsletterWhen I decided to leave my corporate tech job, public speaking was part of The Plan. However I didn’t really know where to begin. I built a talk from some of my more popular blogposts and started submitting it to CfPs I happened across. Luckily, I met up with Chiu-Ki on a trip to the…
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NSConf: Halle Winkler – Duck Taping the Gates of Chaos Shut
→: NSConf: Halle Winkler – Duck Taping the Gates of Chaos ShutMy Notes from Halle‘s amazing talk at NSConf. Terror – have people who have had great app indies for 5-10 years – real experts. This has been working 3.5 years. Been an interesting and challenging 3.5 years. Started because was “meh” at apps. 3 paid apps. Got positive feedback, but couldn’t crack the marketing code.…
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Giving a Talk and a Workshop – in Two Days
→: Giving a Talk and a Workshop – in Two DaysSubmitting I have two ways of submitting to CfPs. The first: a carefully written abstract of a talk that I have already prepped, and probably already given. The second: something that I have already been exploring in blog posts, collected into a “here is this thing that I think I could talk about, but I’m…