Thoughts: Developer Lead Resumes

Thought: If you’ve got a position listed on your resume that says “Software Development Team Lead”, the description of the role should start out with things you did as a leader.

Becoming a Manager Part 6 - Conducting Video Interviews

This year my focus is on collecting my thoughts on being a manager. A large part of that is hiring your team, so we’re in a series on the hiring process. This time, a couple of notes on conducting a video interview.

Becoming a Manager Part 5 - Getting Ready for Interviews - Part 2

This year my focus is on collecting my thoughts on being a manager. A large part of that is hiring your team, so we’re in a series on the hiring process. Posts so far include creating job postings, reviewing the resumes you receive, and the first part of getting ready for interviews. In this post, I share more thoughts about getting ready for the interview.

Is DotNet 8 Faster than DotNet 7?

Taking a pause from my series on becoming a manager(latest post), I took a morning to update my Expressur basic arithmetic library so I can test claims that .NET 8 had significant performance improvements over .NET 7.

Short answer? Add me to the people who say “apparently yes”, at least for pure C# code.

Becoming a Manager Part 4 - Getting Ready for Interviews - Part 1

Over the last few months, I’ve put a few thoughts out there about creating job postings and reviewing the resumes you receive. In this month’s post, I share some thoughts about preparing to conduct interviews. There’s much more said on the internet about conducting interviews versus creating job postings and reviewing resumes, so this is going to be a bunch of notes.