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You can list "Uncovered and documented bugs on Firefox" on your resume? I thought only paid work experience applied.

You can put anything on your resume that you want. There is no Resume Police. You should put on your resume anything that will make the reader say "Hey, I need to bring this person in for an interview." Conversely, you should not put anything on your resume that does NOT make the reader say that. Your two summers at McDonald's? Don't bother, even though it's paid work experience. Blog post on the topic: Should I put _____ on my resume?.

With any experience on a resume, you'll want to quantify it as much as possible. Compare: "Uncovered and documented bugs on Firefox" with "Uncovered and documented 47 bugs in Firefox over a six month period." The latter gives the reader a better idea what it is you've done. More on using numbers in your resume: Numbers and resumes.

Where did you get the idea that it could only be paid experience? Did something tell you that? If so, I'd love to find out what book or blog told you so that I can bookmark it as bad advice.

You can list "Uncovered and documented bugs on Firefox" on your resume? I thought only paid work experience applied.

You can put anything on your resume that you want. There is no Resume Police. You should put on your resume anything that will make the reader say "Hey, I need to bring this person in for an interview." Conversely, you should not put anything on your resume that does NOT make the reader say that. Your two summers at McDonald's? Don't bother, even though it's paid work experience. Blog post on the topic: Should I put _____ on my resume?.

With any experience on a resume, you'll want to quantify it as much as possible. Compare: "Uncovered and documented bugs on Firefox" with "Uncovered and documented 47 bugs in Firefox over a six month period." The latter gives the reader a better idea what it is you've done. More on using numbers in your resume: Numbers and resumes.

Where did you get the idea that it could only be paid experience? Did something tell you that? If so, I'd love to find out what book or blog told you so that I can bookmark it as bad advice.

All of this is cool, I suppose, but there is a tool that I use now called ack that has taken care of most of my find / grep / xargs/ exec / whatever needs: http://petdance.com/ack/

I recently switched to a grep replacement written in Perl for most of my code searching needs and can't tell the difference in speed. More importantly, the time it saves ME by doing what I mean is more than worth the additional cpu time required by the computer.

Since I gave the talk, Code Complete has a 2nd edition.

I don't know about the cats, but when our dog started chewing on blankets and sheets in the bedroom, we gave him his own blanket. He now chews on that one, and only that one. He knows it's his blanket.

Then take a look again. Their mod_perl Developer's Cookbook is great (on my list of Ten Great Non-O'Reilly Books), and I really enjoyed The Ruby Way. (Full disclosure: I've done tech editing work for SAMS.)

No publisher is consistently brilliant, nor consistently awful. It may be an indicator, but ignoring a publisher because of a product line you don't like is self-defeating.

+1, Interesting

Thank you for that. Now that I understand dopamine a little better, perhaps you can explain the purpose of L Dopa? Its only taken me 16 years to understand this song from Big Black. :)

See the site that the link is from. He's a recording engineer in Chicago who also has been in some incredibly influential bands.

Obligatory link to the Steve Albini article she ripped it from.

The Problem with Music

She once tried to slap David Gedge of The Wedding Present backstage because she heard he was friends with Albini.

What you need is a good Buzzword Bingo card. Just print off a page, and then reload to get a fresh card. Print up a stack for your next all-company meeting.

Please read the original "The Problem With Music" by Steve Albini from which Courtney stole much of her manifesto.

I like my formatting better.

Bill Wyman wrote for the Chicago Reader back in the 90s. He was not loved. See Three Pandering Sluts And Their Music Industry Stooge, featuring the always-entertaining Steve Albini.

First off, nobody should look for a job without reading Nick Corcodilos' excellent Ask The Headhunter.

Second, think like a hiring manager. Remember that the hiring manager has 50 resumes in a folder that HR has dumped in his lap, or worse, 50 emails that have been forwarded from HR.

Tell me, as a manager, exactly what you can do for me. This might mean some extra work on your part customizing a copy of your resume, and of course writing a job-specific cover letter. DO IT. Don't skimp here.

I want to know exactly what the applicant can do to help me out. Make a thumbnail sketch of what you are. The top of my resume looks like this:

16 years professional software development, most recently specializing in Perl, PHP and ColdFusion, including

• Project leader and senior software engineer for TITLEWAVE online library collection and e-commerce site (1 year)
• Developing object-oriented Perl and PHP, including interfacing with Oracle and MySQL (8 years)
• Creating intranet database applications with Cold Fusion, Access & VBA and SQL (5 years)
• Creating flagship software products in C/C++ (5 years)

Other little notes from my resume sins file:

• Do not discuss money. If the ad asks for a salary range, then specify it, but then leave it alone.
• Put your name and contact info on every document, probably on every page. Stuff gets mixed up once it comes out on paper.
• Don't try to hide your small amount of experience by omitting dates. I won't be fooled.
• Tell me why you are better then the other 90% of the resumes I'm getting.
• I take filling this position very seriously. I expect you to do the same. Cookie-cutter cover letters get round-filed.

Ask The Headhunter makes the key point that managers WANT to hire you. They want to find someone that they can hire so that we can all get back to doing real work. Make it easy for me to see that you are the person for the job.

It's ostensibly about the Perl community, but it speaks to the rest of Open Source as well.

Me, definitely.

I have a section of my site related to Steve Albini's bands, including Big Black. I get tons of hits looking for things like:

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  and my favorite...
  
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I don't know about you, but I haven't had a "small variety" of programming tasks since the mid-80s.

Programming Ruby has been on my book want list for a while, but based on this review I can tell I'm going to have to move it up in priority.

I especially look forward to commentary from those /.ers who have used it.
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What about my gallery of Naked Raygun covers?

What about high school yearbooks?