2013

A couple of "The Outsourcing Playbook" notes

I’ve had my short ebook, “The Outsourcing Playbook”, in the wild for a while now and I have made a few adjustments. First off, I adjusted the pricing on Gumroad to be pay-what-you-want on the pdf version (including free). So, go get that now. Additionally, because I wanted to get this out to as many people as possible, I whipped up a quick and dirty HTML version of the book.

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[Around the Web] Hiring and management links for July 3

I'm kicking off a new weekly feature today where I compile together links that caught my interest over the past week that are at least somewhat tangentially related to my in-progress book. Build Your Career: Michael Lopp (PeepCode) Lopp, better known as Rands in some circles, has been a huge influence on me ever since I first stepped into management. This PeepCode course focused on managing your career as a developer is sure to be fantastic.

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Getting hired as a developer or designer

Before I started writing my current book (dingus down at the bottom of the post to get the first two chapters free) on hiring developers, I started a book on getting hired as developer or designer. I might come back to it someday, but I thought I’d share one of the early chapters I had written for that book since it dovetails nicely with parts of the new book I’m currently writing from the opposite perspective.

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