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Finding Great Developers

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/06/finding-great-developers-2/

The great software developers, indeed, the best people in every field, are quite simply never on the market.

The average great software developer will apply for, total, maybe, four jobs in their entire career.

The great college graduates get pulled into an internship by a professor with a connection to industry, then they get early offers from that company and never bother applying for any other jobs. If they leave that company, it’s often to go to a startup with a friend, or to follow a great boss to another company, or because they decided they really want to work on, say, Eclipse, because Eclipse is cool, so they look for an Eclipse job at BEA or IBM and then of course they get it because they’re brilliant.

I have three basic methods for how to go about this:

@Cheesebaron
Cheesebaron / Activity1.cs
Last active September 15, 2020 14:21
Sample showing how to use Spannables to replace text with Images in Mono for Android.
using Android.App;
using Android.Text;
using Android.Text.Style;
using Android.Widget;
using Android.OS;
namespace MonoDroid.TextViewWithImages
{
[Activity(Label = "Text with Images", MainLauncher = true, Icon = "@drawable/icon")]
public class Activity1 : Activity
@JakeWharton
JakeWharton / AspectRatioImageView.java
Created June 2, 2012 02:14
ImageView that respects an aspect ratio applied to a specific measurement.
// Copyright 2012 Square, Inc.
package com.squareup.widgets;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.TypedArray;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.ImageView;
/** Maintains an aspect ratio based on either width or height. Disabled by default. */
public class AspectRatioImageView extends ImageView {
@casidiablo
casidiablo / SimpleCursorLoader.java
Created September 14, 2011 20:03
Used to write apps that run on platforms prior to Android 3.0. When running on Android 3.0 or above, this implementation is still used; it does not try to switch to the framework's implementation. See the framework SDK documentation for a class overview
/*
* Copyright 2012 CodeSlap - Cristian Castiblanco
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software