Archive for October, 2007

Interviewing and Hiring programmers

I’ve seen and read a lot of discussions about hiring programmers. Most people claim to want great programmers, but few people know how to even marginally separate the good from the bad. “Great” is a loaded term, and it means different things to different people. What I want to focus on is [...]

Fixing the Leopard upgrade problem.

I ran into the Leopard upgrade problem that others have been reporting. The problem happens after you do a successful upgrade and the system reboots. It then hangs at the blue screen prior to login. Other people have wiped the disk and proceeded with a fresh install. While I could have [...]