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Career
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Clarify user expectations to the minute to eliminate frustration and extra work
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How can I help my 50ish sysadmin brother find a job?
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
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Trying to get your boss fired means you're looking at the wrong problem
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What I learned hanging out at the vascular surgery conference
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Toot your own horn at work
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When was the last time you were thanked?
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What schools should be teaching IT students
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Use Google Alerts to monitor your online presence
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How to keep a job you don't love
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How to boost your career by contributing to open source projects
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There is no shame in self-promotion
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The best career advice my father ever gave
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On breadth vs. depth of technical knowledge
Communication
Conferences
Interviews
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How to talk in an interview about problems at your past job without coming off as a complainer
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Those "illegal job interview questions" aren't illegal on their own
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How to prepare for a job interview: The 4-point summary
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Slides from today's resumes & interviews talk
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Rethink the post-interview thank you note
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Stand during phone interviews
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How long should it take for an interviewer to get back to me?
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How can I help my 50ish sysadmin brother find a job?
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The job interview is not about collecting factual information.
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How to explain past problems in a job interview
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Fifteen ways to kill your job interview
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Passing the receptionist test
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How to say "I don’t know" effectively
Job hunting
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How long should it take for an interviewer to get back to me?
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How do I make my resume stand out?
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How can I help my 50ish sysadmin brother find a job?
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Milwaukee JobCamp, a free all-day job hunting event, is this Thursday
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Don’t confuse "qualifications" with "skills assumed of everyone"
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How to show open source experience in your job hunt
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Resume tactics from the grocery checkout lane
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Hunt for your job like you hunt for your toys
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How to work with headhunters
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The importance of cover letters in the hiring process
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What do I do when there are no jobs to be found?
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There is no shame in self-promotion
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Two important numbers for job seekers: 7.5% and 1:11
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Do your due diligence when researching a company
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Passing the receptionist test
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There are no silver bullets in job hunting
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Give just the facts when job hunting
Open source
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The best open source project for someone might not be yours, and that's OK
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ack 2.0 has been released
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Solr's DataImportHandler can't handle line-based SQL comments
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A little Ruby program to monitor Solr DIH imports
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Self-selecting for the thick-skinned means turning away contributors.
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My Solr+Tomcat troubles, and how I fixed them
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Before you write a patch, write an email
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Open source is improv, so say "Yes and"
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Mark Jason Dominus on the importance of giving fish
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Which of my PostgreSQL indexes are getting used most heavily?
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You're not a genius? Says who?
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There's only one useful way to handle your detractors
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Notes and comments from OSCON 2011
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Your github account is not your portfolio, but it's a start
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Six tips for preparing to attend a technical conference
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Toward ending RTFM marketing in open source
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How to show open source experience in your job hunt
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How to boost your career by contributing to open source projects
Perl
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ack 3.3.0 improves error messages, makes file selection quicker
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An unexpected benefit of thinking functional in Perl
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ack 3.1.0 allows searching ranges of lines in a file
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ack 3.0.0 has been released
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ack 2.28 has been released with new color charts
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How to use templates in vim
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ack 2.24 is released, speeds up common cases
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Make the Linux chkconfig service list easier to read
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ack 2.0 has been released
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Mark Jason Dominus on the importance of giving fish
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Notes and comments from OSCON 2011
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401 passwords Twitter won't let you use
PostgreSQL
Programming
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An unexpected benefit of thinking functional in Perl
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A collection of coding horrors
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ack 2.24 is released, speeds up common cases
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Make the Linux chkconfig service list easier to read
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ack 2.0 has been released
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Solr's DataImportHandler can't handle line-based SQL comments
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A little Ruby program to monitor Solr DIH imports
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SELECT * is a bug waiting to happen
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My Solr+Tomcat troubles, and how I fixed them
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The most important pig in the office
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Which of my PostgreSQL indexes are getting used most heavily?
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Watch for the surprises
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Notes and comments from Postgres Open 2011
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Keep seldom-used settings handy in your configuration files
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Notes and comments from OSCON 2011
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401 passwords Twitter won't let you use
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What schools should be teaching IT students
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Should I switch jobs to learn better development processes?
Resumes
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The simple math of why your resume probably isn't getting read.
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Slides from today's resumes & interviews talk
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What if news stories were written like resumes?
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Undecided if something should go on your resume? Add more detail for guidance.
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Eight items to leave off your resume
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Never put "excellent communication skills" on your resume
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Don't waste your time with fancy resume sites and video resumes
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How do I make my resume stand out?
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Track your professional stats like a pro athlete to give your resume power
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Objective: "Obtain job where I commute by zipline"
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Your github account is not your portfolio, but it's a start
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Should I put ____ on my résumé?
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Don't try to make things on your résumé sound more interesting than they are.
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You can’t take the easy way to writing a résumé
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Résumé-building websites are worse than worthless
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Does your résumé have to fit on a single page? Roger Ebert has the answer.
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The worst way to start a résumé
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"I just slammed out 300 resume applications for which I am more than qualified for this week, I doubt I will hear from even one"
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How to do a web resume right
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Resume tactics from the grocery checkout lane
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The importance of cover letters in the hiring process
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How does a contractor make his resume appealing to a hiring manager?
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What can go in a sysadmin’s work portfolio?
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Twelve items to leave off your resume and cover letter
Ruby
SQL
Security
Solr
Unix
Work life
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Skip the exit interview when you leave your job
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Clarify user expectations to the minute to eliminate frustration and extra work
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How to deal with busybodies at work
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Watch for the surprises
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What schools should be teaching IT students
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How to keep a job you don't love
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How does a contractor make his resume appealing to a hiring manager?
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Should I switch jobs to learn better development processes?
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How to get laid off properly
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The Career Manifesto
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The worst reason to quit your job
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Your second most important relationship
ack
vim