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		<title>A better personal biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For as long as I can remember, writing a personal bio has been a tough challenge. You know how this goes: you&#8217;re applying to a conference, writing a resume or creating an &#8220;About Me&#8221; page on your website. You have to write down information about who you are, what you&#8217;ve accomplished and what you think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Salary Guide Or A Marketing Tool?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Half Technologies has released their annual salary guide, highlighting what they expect the average salaries to be for various technology positions in the new year. As much as I like to get worked up over salary data as the next developer, I simply cannot trust Robert Half Technologies to be honest about their salary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Value In Offering &#8220;Time To Tinker&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, I worked for a company that had a strictly governed bug fixing process. The bugs to be fixed per release were specifically regimented, right down to the amount of hours available to fix each issue. Developers were expected to meet or beat their estimates, and failing to do so meant overtime (since the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working From Home: Eighteen Months</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a little over a year and a half since I left the daily grind of a commute and began working from my home office. It&#8217;s been an amazing year filled with challenges, adventures, struggles and blessings. I&#8217;m like most developers: I relished the idea of having a quiet place to work, of getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocking Your Job Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things about the PHP field is that developers are highly sought after, and good developers are prized. While anyone can slap &#8220;PHP Developer&#8221; on their resume, most companies have gotten good at weeding out the pretenders from the real deal. This means that for a highly qualified developer, interviewing should be an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Find The Right Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my career as a software developer I&#8217;ve been lucky. I&#8217;ve been lucky that finding work has never been terribly difficult. The longest I&#8217;ve ever been out of work is a month and a half. Six weeks might seem like a long time, especially in software; in my case I was unfortunate enough to experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking The Technical Resume</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my last job, I occasionally was invited to interview candidates for the web development team. Usually I&#8217;d receive a copy of their resume a few days beforehand with the instructions to review it, and I&#8217;d take a few minutes to read their resume and usually pop them into Google to take a look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do you want the web to be?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five months ago, I had an opportunity to accept a contract to work at Mozilla as part of the webdev team. There was a match for my skills on a contract basis, and even though it meant leaving permanent employment for the uncertain world of contracting, I knew it was something I would never forgive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding A Job Without A Recruiter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about all the reasons that recruiters are bad for your career. For a variety of reasons I highlighted the reasons job seekers should avoid enlisting the services of recruiters that solicit them, and the traps that recruiters employ to disadvantage job seekers while improving their odds of collecting a commission. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Recruiters Are Bad For Your Career</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some point or another, every technical person will conduct a job search. And either by design or accident, they will encounter the nemesis of job searching: The Recruiter. These individuals are employed by companies whose sole purpose is to serve as an intermediary between job seekers and potential employers. Their marketing literature will say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP Interview Questions And Answers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a large number of PHPers looking for jobs right now. After having just gone through the process myself, I wanted to put together some of the most common PHP interview questions. These questions are all non-technical, but do represent the soft side of PHP interviewing. I cannot help you if you don&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned From An Impromptu Job Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I lost my job on October 12th, I knew that the PHP community was an invaluable resource for finding a new one. What I didn&#8217;t expect, though, was the outpouring of support and assistance I would receive from that community. I learned a lot of lessons from the job search, and thankfully, largely due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Coding Tests Are A Bad Interview Technique</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I&#8217;ve noticed in hunting for a job recently is the number of companies that insist that you write them a code sample to spec. Not just any code sample, but a fully functional, complete application. This is absurd, for several reasons. Eli White spends a good deal of time arguing why coding tests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need A PHP Developer? Why You Should Hire Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seem to be lots and lots of PHP folks out there looking to hire good PHP developers. Finding the right developer can be a challenge, as can finding the right job. I&#8217;ve been looking for a couple weeks now, and I wanted to put together a short blurb on why you should consider hiring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Count The Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that you&#8217;ve just been offered a brand new job. That&#8217;s fantastic! Now, make sure you do the math and find out what it will cost you. &#8220;Cost me?&#8221; you ask. Yes. Accepting a new job is exciting and often beneficial, but there are costs associated with it that you must consider before you sign [...]]]></description>
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