Today I was phoned by quite possibly the worst recruitment agent ever. I don’t deal directly with recruitment. My job is to assess the need of an extra member of staff on my team, pick the people I want to see based on their CV, do the interviews, and then pick the person I think [...]

I went to the Ad:Tech show this week at the Olympia – National Hall in London.  I met some really cool people there, gave away a lot of bottles of water, but didn’t really learn as much as I would have hoped. The thing is that the seminars available would have cost about £800 to see, [...]

I just took the current survey from A List Apart, the online web design and development blog. The results last year showed that I fit right into the normal demographic for a web developer. I also found it amazing that almost 10% of the people who filled out the survey had more than 10 jobs! [...]

Today is my first day as Programmer in the Research and Development department at Just Search. I had my new desk delivered yesterday and spent some of the afternoon moving over to the R&D office. It’s a nice new desk, and I got a several things that I need to work on, including installing MoreGourpWare [...]

My role at work in the JustSearch Research and Development department requires me to have a new job title. But what? Apparently I can name my own! So here is my top 5(ish) choices (in no particular order): Lead Research and Development Programmer Lead Programmer, Research and Development Head Research and Development Programmer Head Programmer, [...]