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I’ve Officially Sent This Email Over 100 Times to Recruiters Looking for .NET Developers

I’ve Officially Sent This Email Over 100 Times to Recruiters Looking for .NET Developers

By Adron Hall on April 17, 2014

Here’s the letter, it’s kind of LOLz! I know it’s tough to find .NET Developers (or replace .NET with Java Developers or X Enterprise Language), so CIOs, CTOs and others take note. Here’s what I know and what I see, embodied in a letter. I will put effort into hooking people up with good jobs, that […]

Posted in Business | Tagged .net developer, developer, dotnet developer, java developers, Jobs Recruiters and Getting There, open letter, Open Letters, rants, software developer

9 Ways To Survive The Shit Storm of Developer Evangelism

9 Ways To Survive The Shit Storm of Developer Evangelism

By Adron Hall on January 21, 2014

I started to write a blog entry a few months ago about my time doing developer evangelism. First in practice, along with product management and team leadership and then as a full time developer evangelist with Basho. Then I felt many different things, nothing which translated into a very useful blog entry. Well past any […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged advocate, community, conferences, developer, developer advocate, developer evangelist, evangelism, PSA, rants

Why Phone Calls Suck and Coders Hate You For Making Them

Why Phone Calls Suck and Coders Hate You For Making Them

By Adron Hall on December 2, 2013

<[Rant On]> During the work day some of the most disruptive events for a coder are phone calls, getting punched in the face or bum fights in the street. Why are these events so disruptive to programmers? Much of the answer lies in the maker versus manager schedule. Let’s talk a little bit about what […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Just for fun | Tagged disruptions, interuptions, mental, phone, phone calls, PSA, rants, train wrecks, wrecks

Only Yahoos Work in an Office!?

Only Yahoos Work in an Office!?

By Adron Hall on February 28, 2013

Ok, so I think almost everybody has either slammed Marissa Mayer about the new Yahoo non-remote worker policy or said that it’s the medicine they have to swallow. Very few are actually pointing out however, that Yahoo was probably just really bad at managing their remote employees. In the end, I don’t care, that just […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Freedom, ideas, in office, individual, indvidual liberty, Marissa Mayer, office, office worker, rants, remote, remote work, remote workers, remote working, Scott Hanselman, telecommuting, yahoo

Surface & iPad Collision Course

Surface & iPad Collision Course

By Adron Hall on November 19, 2012

Ok, I’d been looking around for a Surface I could try out. Even though I have my doubts about Windows 8 and especially RT I also am excited about a lot of the features that these operating system(s) have. But amid the parts that I hate and parts I hate, there is the simple fact […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged android, Apple, google maps, iOS, ipad, microsoft, microsoft surface, PSA, rants, reviews | 1 Response

3 Things Companies Do Wrong by Developers, The New King Makers

3 Things Companies Do Wrong by Developers, The New King Makers

By Adron Hall on October 29, 2012

I’m sitting on the train heading from Seattle to Portland today. I live in Portland, but spend a significant amount of time in the beautiful Emerald City. The time on the train is immensely useful to think about concepts, thoughts, introspect, code and generally be uninterrupted in focus. All the while it makes the 3 plus hour trip productive […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged coder, community, developer, kingmaker, Programmer, PSA, rants, work environment

The Bad, The Ugly and The Good Bits :: Sexism, VMworld 2012 & Smart Cool People

The Bad, The Ugly and The Good Bits :: Sexism, VMworld 2012 & Smart Cool People

By Adron Hall on August 30, 2012

The Divide in Technologists… Sexism & Those That are Building Tech There seems to be a pretty distinctive divide in the technology industry today. There are the young, open minded, devop oriented, free-thinking individuals and then there are the old guard of IT. This later group still brings the “booth babes” and finds an incessant […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud foundry, Cloud Speak, Cloudfoundry, Coding Adventures, iron foundry, ironfoundry, platform as a service, rants, virutalization, vmware, vmworld | 3 Responses

Microsoft, Which I Hate and Which I Love

Microsoft, Which I Hate and Which I Love

By Adron Hall on August 27, 2012

Ok, I’ll admit, I got issues with some of the past Microsoft ethical breaches of business dealings. Sure, but who doesn’t? Their technology that they develop ranges from complete crap (re: Bob, paperclip, sealed classes, The 1st X version of Entity Framework) all the way to the completely awesome amazing stuff, like the Node.js SDK […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged microsoft, rants, reviews, software | 5 Responses

Office Applications, Cloud Office Applications:  An Open Letter

Office Applications, Cloud Office Applications: An Open Letter

By Adron Hall on March 13, 2012

Alright, there are a dozen office suites out there that sit in various places on one’s computer, in the cloud, can do X, Y, and Z and the list goes on. However, I don’t want to talk about any of those suites. I want to talk about the suite we all want, the suite that […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged google, google docs, microsoft, MS Office, office, office suite, Open Letters, rants, zoho

Following Good Practice, The Negative Bits About Windows Azure First, But Gems Included! :D

Following Good Practice, The Negative Bits About Windows Azure First, But Gems Included! :D

By Adron Hall on September 7, 2011

Ok, I’ve used Windows Azure steadily over the last year and a half.  I’ve fought with the SDK so much that I stopped using it. I decided I’d put together this recap of what has driven me crazy and then put together something about the parts that I really like, the awesome bits, the parts […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged access control, azure, cloud, cloud compute, cloud computing, Cloud Speak, cloud storage, microsoft, rants, reviews, service bus, windows azure | 1 Response

Resumes Are Worthless

Resumes Are Worthless

By Adron Hall on August 19, 2011

Ok, so a question came up recently about hiring people for software development roles. In answering that, the group discussing this started talking about resumes. Resumes, which I’m told mine looks good and reads well, hold a certain value to someone entering the field of software development. There are also major problems with having a […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged employment, hiring, ideas, Joel Spolsky, rants, resume

Cloud Failure, FUD, and The Whole AWS Oatage…

Cloud Failure, FUD, and The Whole AWS Oatage…

By Adron Hall on April 25, 2011

Ok.  First a few facts. AWS has had a data center problem that has been ongoing for a couple of days. AWS has NOT been forthcoming with much useful information. AWS still has many data centers and cloud regions/etc up and live, able to keep their customers up and live. Many people have NOT built […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, architecture, aws, azure, Bob Warfield, cloud, cloud computing, Cloud Speak, Frédéric Bastiat, PSA, rants | 2 Responses

Job Posts that Don’t Suck!

Job Posts that Don’t Suck!

By Adron Hall on February 23, 2011

Ok, as promised, this is the post with solutions.  Job posts should get a prospective candidate excited about a possible gig.  Don’t lose top talent the second you post, don’t freak out people and load it up with a “we’re hiring so we just have to throw bait out for all you sucker programmers” type […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged engineering, hiring, Job description, rants, recruiting, San Francisco, YouNoodle

I’m Not Looking, But These Job Posts Just Suck

I’m Not Looking, But These Job Posts Just Suck

By Adron Hall on February 22, 2011

BEWARE:  This is the beginning of a rant.  If you’re temperamental it might piss you off.  You’ve been warned, prepare to have a bit of rant with reality thrown on top for good measure. I’m not looking for another gig.  I’m extremely happy with what I’m doing right now.  The Russell Team I’m working with […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Agile software development, hiring, job, job posts, programming, rant, rants, recruiting, sql | 3 Responses

Overloaded to Death, “Cloud” Computing is Dead

Overloaded to Death, “Cloud” Computing is Dead

By Adron Hall on January 31, 2011

I’ve gotten to a point where I won’t argue it anymore.  The word Cloud as defined on Wikipedia “location-independent computing, whereby shared servers provide resources, software, and data to computers and other devices on demand, as with the electricity grid. Cloud computing is a natural evolution of the widespread adoption of virtualization, service-oriented architecture and utility computing. Details are abstracted from […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud, cloud computing, Cloud Speak, iaas, rants, saas, software as a service, utility computing | 6 Responses

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