Shove It, FizzBuzz!

My developer job resource kit is now available. It's called "Shove It, FizzBuzz: How to find and land a .NET development job."

What's included in this kit?

The kit includes a 200+ page eBook (PDF) that teaches you how to get the job you want (and will make you a better developer in the process). It contains tips on improving your overall developer marketability, 110+ technical questions (with answers), plus general interview questions, puzzle questions, and more.

The kit also includes software that simulates an actual interview and can help boost your confidence during the real thing. You could also just use the software to keep yourself on top of the latest technologies.

Last, but not least, the kit includes a customizable resume (in Word format) that has proven to be effective at getting people jobs.

http://shoveitfizzbuzz.com

When Less Is More

I try to follow all of John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity, but there are a few standouts:

Law 1: Reduce
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

Law 2: Organize
Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

Law 10: The One
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

I have a hard time getting people to understand that the customer probably doesn’t need to see every column in our database.  They probably aren’t ever sorting on phone numbers.  They probably wonder why all those extra columns are being shown to them in the first place.  The reason is because someone at the company thinks that some customer somewhere will get upset if they are removed.

An excellent example of when less is more is in the case of weather forecast data.  As an end user who just wants to see the weather forecast, which would you rather see?